European College of Parma Foundation

For whom and why?

The Master’s program is aimed at professionals working in the fields of healthcare, social and psychosocial support, who operate – or wish to operate – in humanitarian emergency settings or within local services dedicated to people and communities experiencing distress or vulnerability.

The Master’s program seeks to train competent and ethical professionals capable of working with vulnerable individuals and communities, particularly in humanitarian, migratory, emergency, or socially marginalized contexts, taking into account the interaction between individual needs, collective dynamics, and systemic constraints.

For Whom and Why?

The Master’s program trains psychologists, psychiatrists, and mental health professionals capable of intervening with competence, ethics, and sensitivity in humanitarian contexts and in community services dedicated to people in situations of vulnerability.
In contexts marked by collective trauma, disasters, forced migrations, and systemic violence, psychological care cannot rely on a standard clinical approach. It requires flexible tools, intercultural competencies, rapid assessment skills, and the ability to build authentic, deeply human, and respectful therapeutic relationships that recognize the complexity of individual experiences.

Thus, the Master’s program enables participants to acquire highly specialized skills in psychological and psychosocial care in emergency contexts, with constant attention to the well-being of both the people they support and the professionals themselves.