- Docente: Alessandro Agostini
- Credits: 2
- SSD: M-PSI/08
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 9210)
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from Oct 30, 2024 to Dec 11, 2024
Learning outcomes
Explain how interactions between biological, psychological, and social factors determine the cause, manifestation, and outcome of wellness and disease. Compare current paradigms for abnormal behaviour. Describe the principles of psychological treatments, including psychoanalytic therapies, cognitive and behavioral therapies, humanistic therapies, existential and systemic family therapies. Discuss the methods of study and evaluation instruments used in clinical psychology. Describe the diagnostic criteria and etiological hypotheses of the most common psychological disorders. Discuss the mechanisms and consequences of addiction and dependence, and the psychological effects of abuse.
Course contents
Definition of Clinical Psychology and its scopes of application.
The psychodynamic approach to psychopathology and other models of the mind.
Notes on the history of psychoanalysis and the problem of hysteria.
Psychological defenses and adaptation.
The theory of attachment: the strange situation and the attachment styles. Mentalization and trauma.
The problem of diagnosis in clinical psychology: the DSM V and the Kernberg model.
Psychotherapy elements.
Readings/Bibliography
You do not need to buy specific texts. During lessons it will be provided: educational material also available through username and password at IOL University of Bologna, references to suggested texts.
Teaching methods
Teaching consists of 8 frontal lessons of 2 hours each for a total of 16 hours. The contents of the program will be presented with examples of clinical cases.
Assessment methods
The verification is aimed at evaluating the learning of the main models of the mind for psychopathologies. It consists in a written test with 31 written questions (for each question, 4 answers to choose from).
An ongoing test (test "in itinere") RESERVED for students of the ongoing academic year, which consists of: 31 written questions (for each question, 4 answers to choose from) will be held during the last lesson of the course. Students of the past accademic years cannot poartecipate in the "in itinere" test.
Teaching tools
Slides, movies, interactions with students will be used.
Office hours
See the website of Alessandro Agostini