- Docente: Silvana Grandi
- Credits: 8
- SSD: M-PSI/08
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Silvana Grandi (Modulo 1) Chiara Rafanelli (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Clinical psychology (cod. 0990)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to develop in the students a basic knowledge for the understanding of basic concepts of psychosomatic medicine and explore the main clinical and therapeutic guidelines.
Course contents
The clinical domains of psychosomatic medicine
Stress, chronic stress and allostatic load
Stressful events
Early life- events
Role of personality
Health and psychological well-being
The clinimetric approach to clinical psychology
Depression in medicine
Anxiety in medicine
Irritable mood and somatic diseases
Classification of psychosomatic distress
Illness behavior and somatization
Healthy and quality of family relationships
Social support
Treatment
Readings/Bibliography
Essential textbook:
Grandi S., Rafanelli C., Fava G.A., Manuale di Psicosomatica, Roma: Il Pensiero Scientifico, 2011.
Trombini G., Baldoni F., Psicosomatica, Bologna: Mulino, 1999.
Baldoni F., La prospettiva psicosomatica, Bologna: Mulino,
2010.
Additional readings:
Fava G. A., Freyberger H., Psychosomatic Medicine, Madison: C. T. International Universities Press, 1998.
- Ercolani M., Malati di dolore : aspetti medici e psicologici del paziente con dolore cronico, Bologna: Zanichelli, 1997.
- Trombini G. (a cura di), Come logora curare : medici e psicologi sotto stress, Bologna: Zanichelli, 1994.
- Solano L., Tra mente e corpo: come si costruisce la salute, Milano: Raffaello Cortina, 2001.
- Todarello O., Porcelli P., Psicosomatica come paradosso: il problema della psicosomatica in psicoanalisi, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 1992.
- Kellner R., Psychosomatic syndromes and somatic symptoms, Washington: American Association Press, 1991.
Teaching methods
Lectures with clinical cases exemplifications and playing.
Assessment methods
The final evaluation will consist in a written exam with open ended questions aimed to assess the student's knowledge regarding the topics included in the textbook and discussed in class.
Teaching tools
Lectures with clinical cases exemplifications and playing.
Office hours
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