- Docente: Nicolino Cesare Franco Rossi
- Credits: 2
- SSD: M-PSI/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physiotherapy (cod. 8476)
Learning outcomes
the student knows the clinical applications of psychology in different medical contexts, in the wellness field, in psychological and psychosomatic disturbances. He/she detects the main reactions of the person to acute and chronic illness, suffering and hospitalization, with the due respect to personal, cultural, racial and religious differences.
Course contents
Introduction to Clinical Psychology; psychological developement fron birth to death; psychological mechanisms of defence, illness behavior, alexitymia and somatization, psychological reactions of the patient and the caregiver to stressful events as Ictus, Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain; the medical-psychological integrated therapy.
Readings/Bibliography
N.Rossi (2004) Psicologia clinica per le professioni sanitarie, Il Mulino Manuali, Bologna
M.Ercolani,L.Pasquini (2007) La percezione del dolore, Il Mulino Itinerari, Bologna
Molinari E, Castelnuovo G ( 2010) Psicologia clinica del dolore, Springer Milano
Teaching methods
frontal lesson
Assessment methods
Multiple-choice quiz
Teaching tools
power point
discussion of clinical experiences
Office hours
See the website of Nicolino Cesare Franco Rossi