- Docente: Bruno Baldaro
- Credits: 8
- SSD: M-PSI/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Sciences of Behaviour and Social Relations (cod. 0988)
Learning outcomes
Knowledge about main theories, methods of study, evaluation instruments, and psychological treatments in Clinical Psychology.
Course contents
Paradigms and research methods in Clinical Psychology:
- Basic concepts of psychoanalytical, cognitive-behavioral, psycho-biological and humanistic-existentialist paradigms.
- Case study, epidemiological research, correlational method and experimental method.
Investigation and evaluation instruments in Clinical Psychology:
- Clinical interview: verbal and not-verbal language; relational dynamic evaluation and security measures; diagnostic process; frame and phases of clinical interview; question formulation and functions; request analysis; restitution.
- Symptomatological questionnaires (SQ; STAI-Y; BDI), personality questionnaires (MMPI-2); projective techniques (Rorschach test; TAT); behavioral and cognitive techniques (CBA 2.0 set); cognitive functions evaluation techniques (Wechler scales).
- Reliability and validity of tests and of clinical evaluation. Test diagnosis.
Classification and diagnosis:
- Problems about classification and diagnosis. Nosographic-descriptive and interpretative-explicative systems. The DSM IV and 5 multiaxial system.
- Diagnostic criteria and aethiological hypothesis about anxiety, functional, dissociative, eating, mood, drugs abuse, personality, sexual, infancy and adolescence disorders.
Psychological treatments:
- Psychoanalytic therapies; cognitive and behavioral treatments; humanistic and existentialist therapies; family and group therapies.
The course will take place during the II semester (from february to may 2015) at the Cesena Campus of the Scool of Psychology end Education (address: piazza A. Moro 90).
Readings/Bibliography
Hansell J., Damour L., Psicologia Clinica. Bologna: Zanichelli, 2008.
Granieri A. (a cura di), I test di personalità quantità e qualità. Torino: UTET, 2010.
Teachers notes: http://campus.unibo.it/177645
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons.
Assessment methods
The final evaluation involves a written test on 4 open questions referring to: main aspects of theoretical models, methods, instruments, tecniques of the psychodiagnostic evaluation, and psychological treatments in Clinical Psychology .
Teaching tools
Slides, Overhead projector, PC.
Office hours
See the website of Bruno Baldaro