B9430 - Approfondimento di psicologia clinica

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8475)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide students with the skills necessary to personally manage patient relationships, with an effective orientation toward interventions based on the theories of clinical psychology. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to apply the principles of psychological intervention in healthcare practice, with a particular focus on understanding the underlying motivations that drive nurses to provide care and the implicit motivational systems and behavior patterns implemented within the context of the nurse-patient relationship. They will be able to apply the principles of psychological intervention in nursing practice, aimed at facilitating the nurse-patient relationship as a means of understanding and transforming the patient.

Course contents

Helping Relationship Principles and Techniques of the Caregiving Relationship Psychic System and Defense Mechanisms Hospitalized Patient, Interview Tools and Techniques Personality and Personality Disorders Stress, Anxiety, and Mood Disorders Pain as an Expression of Psychological Distress

Readings/Bibliography

It will not be necessary to purchase a textbook, the teacher will provide the material which will be shared and discussed in the classroom during the lessons.

Teaching methods

Lectures and classroom discussions, presentation and discussion of clinical cases

Assessment methods

The final exam consists of a written test consisting of 30 true/false questions. A pass is considered successful if at least 18 correct answers are obtained. Students will have twenty minutes to complete the test.

Teaching tools

Slides and videos will be shown during the lessons

Office hours

See the website of Monica Pacetti