- Docente: Giovanni Andrea Fava
- Credits: 10
- SSD: M-PSI/08
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Giovanni Andrea Fava (Modulo 1) Ioannis Giannopoulos (Modulo 2) Antonio Pinto (Modulo 3)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2) Traditional lectures (Modulo 3)
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Clinical psychology (cod. 0990)
Learning outcomes
Students will learn evidence-based limits and indications of psychotherapies.
Course contents
Module Prof. Fava (6CFU):
1. Scientific assessment of psychotherapy. Some aspects of control and randomization.
2. Methodology and design of psychotherapy research. How to interpret a psychotherapy study in the literature. How to apply a psychotherapy protocol in the clinical setting.
3. Process and outcome evaluation. The variables linked to the patient, therapist and setting.
4. Evidence-based treatment of mood, anxiety and eating disorders, schizophrenia, personality disturbances. Treatment of somatization.
5. Neurobiological effects of psychotherapy.
Module Prof. Giannopoulos (2CFU):
1. Psychodynamic psychotherapy, with particular reference to borderline personality.
2. Setting, motivation, therapeutic alliance. Steps of the psychotherapeutic process.
3. Basics of brief dynamic psychotherapy.
4. Excerpts from psychotherapeutic practice.
5. Ethics.
Module Prof. Pinto (2CFU):
1. Cognitive behavioral treatment of psychoses.
2. Group psychotherapy: therapeutic ingredients.
3. Group psychotherapy, with particular reference to CBT.
4. Group psychotherapy in clinical practice.
5. Third wave psychotherapies.
The course will take place during the first semester (from October to November 2017) at the Cesena Campus of the School of Psychology and Education.
Readings/Bibliography
Fava GA, Grandi S, Rafanelli C (a cura di): Terapia psicologica. Centro Scientifico Editore, 2010.
Fava GA: Well-Being Therapy. Basel, Karger, 2016.
Suggested readings (Prof. Fava):
S. Stuart, M. Robertson: Interpersonal psychotherapy. London, Arnold, 2003.
A. Roth, P. Fonagy: What works for whom? 2nd Edition. New York, Guildford, 2005.
Suggested readings (prof. Giannopoulos):
- G.O. Gabbard: Psichiatria psicodinamica, Quinta edizione basata sul DSM-5. Milano: Raffaello Cortina, 2015.
- Y. Giannopoulos: L'altra realtà. Psicoterapia a breve termine ansia provocante (stapp). Padova: Cleup, 1999.
Suggested readings (Prof. Pinto):
- I.D. Yalom, M. Leszcz: Teoria e pratica della psicoterapia di gruppo, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2009.
- A. Pinto: “Mindfulness e Psicoterapia cognitiva nelle psicosi”, in: M. Procacci, G. Niccolò, A. Carcione (a cura di): “Manuale di Terapia Cognitiva delle Psicosi”. Milano: Franco Angeli, 2012, pp. 387-430.
Teaching methods
Lectures with case exemplifications.
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
Slides, PC, slide projector, overhead projector.
Office hours
See the website of Giovanni Andrea Fava
See the website of Ioannis Giannopoulos
See the website of Antonio Pinto