B0021 - LA DIMENSIONE PSICOSOCIALE NELLE CURE PALLIATIVE

Learning outcomes

Knowledge about the psychological and relational aspects within a palliative care relationship. The relationships between patient and family, between patient and professional carers and between family and professional carers. Quality of life. psychological distress, anxiety, depression. . The disclosure of bad news. The support and supervision of the staff. How to prevent burnout. The management of complicated grief.

Course contents

The course will be run on the first semester and aims to provide the basic knowledge on he psychological and relational aspects in the contexts of palliative care , mainly:

1- The person in palliative care: psychological suffering

2- the psychological, existential and spiritual dimensions of people in palliative care

3- Quality of life and palliative care

4- family relationships and dynamics

5- the care team in palliative care

6- communication and shared decisions

7-Introduction to interventions.

Readings/Bibliography

Reference: Libro Italiano di Medicina e cure palliative. Poletto, Milano, 2019

Updated litterature review will be suggested during lectures

Teaching methods

Lectures

Case discussion

Role playing

Assessment methods

Learning assessment methods.

For the learning assessment the following approach will be used:

One open question concerning a clinical case

10 multiple choice questions concerning the topics covered throughout the course.

The following criteria will be used for the evaluation of the open question:

1- contents reported about topic

2- description and logical framework

3- the appropriateness of the language used concerning the topic covered

Teaching tools

Slide Projector

Laptop

Role playing

Office hours

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