73320 - TECNICHE DI INTERVENTO NELLE DIPENDENZE PATOLOGICHE

Learning outcomes

The student, at the end of the course must have a knowledge of the main strategies of intervention in various forms of addiction, particularly psychoactive substances addiction, with a view to promoting health and preventing "consumopatia" today targeted at pre-adolescence and adolescence in the first place, with an attention to the psychoeducational projects for addicted. The course will provide theoretical and practical knowledge based to prevent and intervene in an integrated way in the psychopathology of pathological addictions to achieve professional competence necessary for the treatment of pathological dependencies in psychosocial context.

Course contents

Program:

• Brief overview on "how to think about substance consumption today" as a theoretical reference paradigm.
• Promotion of well-being and primary prevention of pathological addictions (examples of strategies to prevent alcohol/drug related problems).
• Psychopathology in adolescence.
• Care and rehabilitation in pathological addictions in adulthood: the main intervention strategies:
• The treatment of cocainism.
• Therapeutic communities and modified communities for specific targets.
• Harm reduction.
• The help interview and the motivational interview.
• The conduction of psychoeducational groups in pathological addictions.
• The self-help groups
  
  Special attention will be paid to the following themes Cocaine / Comorbidity / The group in the treatment of addiction. The technique of the interview in the help relations will be particularly deepened through simulations.

 

Readings/Bibliography

Bibliography for the exam:

Psicologia clinica e psicopatologia per l'educazione e la formazione (2009), Pani R., Biolcati R., Sagliaschi S., Il Mulino, Bologna (Cap. 3, 5, 8, 9).

Cocaina. Consumo, psicopatologia, trattamento (2009), Rigliano P., Bignamini E., Cortina, Milano (Cap. 1, 4, 6, 9).

Quale omogeneità nei gruppi?. Vasta, F. G., Girelli, R., & Gullo, S. (2013). Quale omogeneità nei gruppi. Alpes, Roma (Cap. 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 12, 16, 20, 22).

For students in ERASMUS program:

1. Biolcati, Roberta; Passini, Stefano; Pupi, Virginia, The role of video gaming motives in the relationship between personality risk traits and Internet Gaming Disorder «JOURNAL OF GAMBLING ISSUES», 2021, 46, pp. 221 - 241. https://doi.org/10.4309/jgi.2021.46.12
2. Biolcati, R; Mancini, G; Andrei, F; Trombini, E, Trait emotional intelligence and eating problems in adults: associations with alexithymia and substance use «MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY», 2021, 9, pp. 1 - 16
3. Biolcati R.; Mancini G.; Villano P., ‘And yet I’m an adult now’. The influence of parental criticism on women’s body satisfaction/dissatisfaction during emerging adulthood «INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENCE AND YOUTH», 2020, 25, pp. 599 - 608
   https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2019.1699433

 

Bibliography suggested

Eroina. La malattia degli oppioidi nell’era digitale. Giancane S. (2014). Torino: Gruppo Abele.

Un, due, tre stella! Storie di donne e di ordinaria violenza.
Guarini Antonia, 2016, Poiesis (Alberobello).

Le dipendenze senza droghe. Shopping compulsivo, internet e gioco d'azzardo (2006), Pani R., Biolcati R., Utet, Torino.

Le compulsioni psicopatologiche. Tra controllo degli impulsi e dipendenza (2014), Pani R., Sciuto A., FrancoAngeli, Milano.

Dinamiche e strategie del colloquio clinico (2006), Pani R., Sagliaschi S., Carocci, Roma.

Teaching methods

Lectures and practical exercises.

Assessment methods

Oral exam with 3 questions, 1 per textbook from the bibliography for the exam.

 

Only for students in ERASMUS program:

Oral exam with 3 questions, 1 per research paper:

1. Biolcati, Roberta; Passini, Stefano; Pupi, Virginia, The role of video gaming motives in the relationship between personality risk traits and Internet Gaming Disorder «JOURNAL OF GAMBLING ISSUES», 2021, 46, pp. 221 - 241. https://doi.org/10.4309/jgi.2021.46.12
2. Biolcati, R; Mancini, G; Andrei, F; Trombini, E, Trait emotional intelligence and eating problems in adults: associations with alexithymia and substance use «MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY», 2021, 9, pp. 1 - 16
3. Biolcati R.; Mancini G.; Villano P., ‘And yet I’m an adult now’. The influence of parental criticism on women’s body satisfaction/dissatisfaction during emerging adulthood «INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENCE AND YOUTH», 2020, 25, pp. 599 - 608
   https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2019.1699433

Teaching tools

Slides and practical exercises.

Office hours

See the website of Roberta Biolcati