24676 - Psychology of Communication in Health-Related Contexts

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dental Hygiene (cod. 8481)

Course contents

 

  • Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processes in Perception
  • The role of Attention in information processing
  • Pavlovian and Operant Conditioning; Social Learning
  • The role of the psychosocial context around the patient and the therapy on clinical outcomes
  • Placebo and Nocebo responses
  • Social Modulation of Pain
  • The role of effective communication of information for children and parents in odontoiatric setting

Readings/Bibliography

P. Legrenzi, C. Papagno, C. Umilta’

“Psicologia Generale _ Dal Cervello alla Mente”

Il Mulino, Bologna 2012

  • D. Schacter, D.T. Gilbert, D.M. Wegner

Psicologia Generale

Zanichelli, Bologna

•C. Cacciari – C. Papagno

«Psicologia Generale e neuroscienze cognitive. Manuale per le professioni medico-sanitarie"

Il Mulino, Bologna

Capitoli: V p.77

•F. Benedetti

“L’Effetto Placebo – Breve Viaggio tra Mente e Corpo”

Carrocci Editore, Roma 2012

Teaching methods

Frontal Lecture

Assessment methods

Test. 15 multiple choice questions.

Teaching tools

Slides.

Office hours

See the website of Katia Mattarozzi