76293 - Clinical Psychology of the Development and the Family Relationship.

Course contents

• The course will take place during the first semester (from 25th September to November 2017) at the Cesena Campus of the School of Psychology and Education (address: Piazza A. Moro, 90)
• From the child to the mother-child relationship: The contribution of developmental clinical psychology
• The secure base  in parent-child psychotherapy: intergenerational transmission of attachment, psychopathological disorders
• Infant research and neuroscience in therapeutic practice: birth of intersubjectivity, dyadic system model, parent-child psychopathology, attachment theory
• Microanalytical observation and "prototypical patient": The model of Stern and the parent-child relationship
• Mentalisation and clinical practice: among research, clinical practice and social support
• Parent-Child Programs
• Preventive interventions during childhood: minding the baby and home visiting

Readings/Bibliography

Tambelli Renata (2012). Psicologia clinica dell'età evolutiva. Bologna: Il Mulino

Teaching methods

• Frontal lesson
• Group reading and discussion about clinical intervention during childhood
• Discussion about Video (face to face, still face, strange situation) and Infant Mental Health Strategies
• Lecture about Parent- Children Programs

Assessment methods

Written test with closed and open questions. Closed questions, with multiple answer, are 10 and focus on general concepts about theorical-clinical steps for assessment and intervention during childhood. Each answer is evaluated on a 0-1 point score (o=wrong or missing; 1=correct). Open questions are 4 and focus on clinical issues of the manual. Each answer is evaluated on a 0-5 point score.

Teaching tools

Projector, tutorial videos, slides, film

Office hours

See the website of Fiorella Monti

See the website of Erica Neri