Bachelor's in Psychoeducation

University of Quebec Trois Rivieres: The University of Quebec Trois Rivieres (UQTR), located in Trois-Rivieres, Canada, is a multidisciplinary institution known for its quality education and research. UQTR offers a wide range of programs in arts, sciences, business, health, and engineering. The university emphasizes practical training, research collaborations, and community engagement to enhance the learning experience and contribute to regional development.

The baccalaureate program in psychoeducation aims at the professional training of educators. The bachelor in psychoeducation is a professional whose specificity is the assessment of individuals as well as the planning, organization and use of a living environment, to help people with adjustment difficulties. The content of the program is globally situated in a perspective of normalization and integration of the individual (children, adolescents, adults) in their various natural living environments (family, school, neighborhood). The 1st cycle training in psychoeducation also prepares the student to undertake 2nd cycle studies in psychoeducation. Successful completion of the master's degree constitutes the requirement for access to the profession established by the Order of Psychoeducators and Psychoeducators of Quebec. On the theoretical level, the emphasis is on knowledge of human development, on the capacities and difficulties of adaptation as well as on the various risk and protection factors likely to influence the trajectory of the adaptation of people. . On the practical level, the objective of the program is to acquire clinical attitudes and skills, professional skills and specific evaluation and intervention methods not only in an institutional or community environment, but also in a natural environment. This program is led, both in Trois-Rivières and in Quebec, by a team of professors from the Psychoeducation Department, many of whom are members of the Order of Psychoeducators and Psychoeducators of Quebec (OPPQ) and who come from different fields of education. expertise: psychoeducation, psychology, criminology, social sciences and education. This team is supported by all the physical and human resources of the Psychoeducation Department and by a group of regular lecturers made up of psychoeducators, psychologists, criminologists and social workers. Program Objectives This program aims to train a professional who is able to assess a person's adaptation abilities and difficulties as well as the strengths and limitations of their living environments in order to design, coordinate and implement a plan or program of interventions aimed at the social integration of people with adjustment difficulties through shared experience. The 1st cycle training in psychoeducation also prepares the student to undertake 2nd cycle studies in psychoeducation. Successful completion of the master's degree constitutes the requirement for access to the profession established by the Order of Psychoeducators and Psychoeducators of Quebec. In terms of theoretical knowledge, the program allows the future practitioner to become familiar with the various facets of human development as well as with the various risk or protection factors involved in the adaptation and rehabilitation process. In terms of professional training, the program aims to promote self-knowledge and use, the development of personal and professional autonomy and the acquisition of professional skills and ethical values ​​that underlie intervention with people struggling to adapt. With this in mind, the program advocates an integrated approach that relies on a constant relationship between theoretical knowledge, personal development and professional practice.