03084 - Clinical Psychology (A-K)

Learning outcomes

ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019 LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide students the basic knowledge on the identification of patients' distress conditions and the appropriate forms of interventions, and the basic skills to manage physician's relationship with patients. At the end of the course the student will know the principal theoretical models, having a deepeer understanding of psychopathological syndroms, psychological assessment and interventions. The student will understand the factors behind the development and maintainance of symtom manifestations across childhood and adulthood (trauma, psychic conflict, defense mechanisms, stress)ò the emotional implications related to physical illness, therapy and hospitalization (defensive reactions, compliance, placebo effect, burnout). He/she will be able to apply the basic priciples of psychological intervantion in health care and practice, with particular attention to the flow of the clinical interview and the dynamics of the relationship with patients.

Course contents

COURSE CONTENTS

• theoretical models of the clinical psychology and interventions;
• methodological approaches: clinical vs. experimental method;
• professionals' competencies: psychodiagnosis and psychotherapy;
• psychodiagnostic assessment: nosographic approach of the symptom;
• psychosomatic disorders;
• psychological development and organization of normal and pathological personality;
• early traumatic experiences and pats of the psychological suffering;
• stress;
• psychological reactions to illness and their implications for its evolution, cure and recovery;
• clinical interview;
• psychometric tests;
• psychological intervention in health practice;
• the communication with the patient and the management of the relational dynamics;
• the burn-out in health professions;

Readings/Bibliography

N. Rossi, Psicologia clinica per le professioni sanitarie. Il Mulino, Bologna, 2004.

Grandi S., Rafanelli C., Fava G.A., Manuale di Psicosomatica, Roma: Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore, 2011.

EZIO SANAVIO (a cura di) Manuale di psicopatologia e psicodiagnostica : capitolo VIII Disturbo da sintomi somatici e disturbi correlati, di S. Grandi e L. Sirri. Il Mulino editore, 2016

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

The exam consists on an oral examination. Students' knowledge on the course contents, as well as the acquisition of relational competencies for the management of the doctor patient relationship, will be assessed.

Teaching tools

power point

Office hours

See the website of Silvana Grandi

See the website of Alessandro Agostini