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Why study Master in Psychosocial Intervention?

This is an interdisciplinary degree that arose from the demands and challenges of psychosocial intervention, from psychology professionals and from the humanities and social sciences in general.

It aims to offer theoretical and practical tools that can meet these demands and challenges, in particular the ethical aspects that must be respected.

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Why a Master’s degree in Psychosocial Intervention?

Today’s societies are increasingly complex in terms of the kinds of relationships that they produce. This is indicated by growing levels of violence and social conflicts. In Colombia, we must add to this the effects of the armed conflict that, due to its scope and level of violence, has had devastating social and individual consequences.

In Colombia, this situation involves psychological pain that does not fit into classic diagnostic models. This fact raises questions about potential options for intervention. Therefore, there is a need to provide spaces for professional training to psychologists and other professionals from the fields of the social sciences and humanities who, faced with these complex issues, feel the need to broaden their set of tools for analysis and intervention.

Given the current social need, Universidad Icesi, in accordance with its responsibility to the city, region, and country, is offering this Master’s Degree in Psychosocial Intervention from a multidisciplinary perspective, based on a teaching model known as active learning. This program is built on two principal contexts of intervention: community mental health and in educational contexts.

The models for analysis and intervention promoted here give dimension to the problems associated with these contexts from a broad perspective, including individuals’ relationships to their peer groups, their families and institutions, and the social framework where their conflicts arise and play out.

The community intervention approach is part of an interdisciplinary mental health model, where different knowledge and abilities, including those of the community itself, find common space for expression and action.

Purpose

The goal of the Master’s degree in Psychosocial Intervention is to train psychologists and professionals from the social sciences, humanities, and other fields, to intervene in educational and community contexts, by offering them theoretical-methodological tools with which they can grasp the complexity of the demands and difficulties that arise in these contexts.

Why get this master’s from Universidad Icesi?

Since it was founded in 1979, Universidad Icesi has had the support of Valle de Cauca’s business sector. The university meets a need for high-quality training for leaders who work in the public, business or academic fields while also contributing to the country’s cultural, economic, and social progress.

Distinguished leaders in the region are part of the university’s Governing Council and its Board of Directors. Icesi University has an extensive network of contacts with prestigious institutions and universities all over the world:

For the prestige of the faculty: The Master of Psychosocial Intervention is taught by educators with solid academic training and professional experience in community and educational settings. This gives students a better theoretical and methodological command of the resources needed for this kind of program.

For flexibility: The Master of Psychosocial Intervention allows students to choose a concentration in educational settings or community settings according to their interests and the realities of their immediate or future professional development.

For academic excellence: The Master of Psychosocial Intervention has a seal of approval, traditionally held by Icesi University graduate programs, that comes from rigorous academic processes, endorsed by the Ministry of Education through the High-Quality Accreditation. For graduates of these programs, this accreditation brings benefits because of its good name and reputation in professional circles in the region, the country, and even abroad.

For the multidisciplinary perspective: 29 undergraduate academic programs, 25 master’s programs, 20 medical-surgical specializations and one doctoral program.

Graduate students have the opportunity to interact with other professionals in a diverse academic community, open to interdisciplinary dialogue and discussion. Students enrolled in the Master of Psychosocial Intervention can interact with students from other master’s programs: Administration, Finance, Economics, Marketing, Computers and Telecommunications Management, Industrial Engineering, Education, Government, and Law.

Graduates

Graduates of the Master of Psychosocial Intervention will be able to:

  • Formulate and implement psychosocial interventions in educational and community settings from a broad, critical, and multidisciplinary perspective, addressing the demands raised by individuals and institutions.
  • Participate in creating and implementing policies, programs, and projects that promote interventions in educational and community settings, considering first the requests and needs of the most vulnerable populations.

Length and methodology

The Master of Psychosocial Intervention is a two-year program organized into four academic semesters. This is an advanced master’s degree that meets in-person in the evenings. Twelve classroom hours are spread over two days each week.

The first two semesters (I and II) mainly offer theoretical and methodological foundation courses. These are required for all students.

Two concentrations (interventions in educational settings and interventions in community settings) are offered in the last two semesters (III and IV). Students can choose a concentration based on their professional expectations and experience, along with general course content.

The program has two courses, each with 48 hours of class time, designed exclusively to produce a practical theses that incorporates the knowledge and skills acquired during the master’s program to develop an intervention project, the basis for a thesis which is a final course requirement.

The Master of Psychosocial Intervention includes 600 course hours and 50 credits.

This master's can be offered in a closed setting for specific institutions or groups that request it.

A master’s with solid support

The Master of Psychosocial Intervention is backed by the extensive experience of Universidad Icesi and its Department of Psychological Studies in carrying out numerous projects in community and educational settings.

The Department of Psychosocial Studies is part of the School of Law and Social Sciences, which also offers undergraduate programs in Sociology, Anthropology, Law, Political Science, and related programs. Its academic dyspareunia and centers for social responsibility are distinguished by their community interventions: Ethnographic Lab, Center for Interdisciplinary Legal, Social, and Humanist Studies, Law Group for the Public Interest, and more. The Master of Psychosocial Intervention enjoys great support from the interdisciplinary approach adopted by the Universidad Icesi’s School of Law and Social Sciences.

Two Concentrations

Educational settings: Educational institutions operate as a space for resonance and expression of a series of social and cultural conflicts that spill over from their specific setting. The proposed interventions promoted by this master’s program distance themselves from any normative or disciplinary expectation in order to evaluate these conflicts from a complex perspective. Thus, issues such as violence in school, learning problems, or drug use are explored taking into account multiple contributing familial, social, cultural, and subjective factors and that considering protective and preventative tools.

Community settings: In community spaces, conflicts and unrest manifest themselves in specific ways in each individual interacting this these settings. Family violence, drug abuse, general manifestations of anxiety and intolerance towards social ties and everyday spaces are current problems that can be studied and addressed from a psychosocial and community perspective. This does not mean ignoring the singular nature of how these processes are expressed in the people affected by them, but situating this assessment in a broader relational framework. The community intervention perspective proposed here is part of an interdisciplinary mental health model, where different knowledge and capacities, including those of the community itself, find common ground for expression and action.