B001528 - CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Italian

-Models in clinical psychology: theoretical and epistemological underpinnings. - Review of the main psychopathological syndromes, with a focus on mental disorders highly prevalent in adolescence and with onset that typically takes place during adolescence. Mental disorders that are diagnosable in childhood and their specific expressions.
- Main features of the clinical interventions and therapeutic relationship.

Castonguay, LG & Oltmanns, TF (2023; New edition). Psicologia Clinica e Psicopatologia. Un approccio integrato. Raffello Cortina.


Lingiardi, V., & Gazzillo, F. (2014). La personalità e i suoi disturbi. Raffaello Cortina. (fino a pag. 650; inoltre escludere: capp. 3, 6, 10)

- - Lancini M. (2019) (a cura di): Il ritiro sociale negli adolescenti. Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano

Sica, C. et al. (2022). Q-PAD. Nuova Edizione. Questionario per la valutazione della Psicopatologia in Adolescenza. Trento: Erickson

The Clinical Psychology program aims to provide a theoretical framework of reference of the discipline in the variety of its joints and provide some basic tools necessary to evaluate the different types of request of psychological help, with a particular focus on requests by parents and adolescents.
The course will focus on - The analysis of application and diagnostic process in clinical psychology; -Characteristics and methods of use of clinical instruments of psychological investigation - Identification of the specific characteristics of child and adolescents mental health disorders.
Particular emphasis will be given to understanding the complexity of the management of individuals through the study of the clinical cases (adolescents), illustrated and discussed in classroom.
The course provides students with the knowledge necessary for the activity concerning the psychological analysis and the correct communication with the figures who are involved in various mental health fields.
The topics treated in the course of clinical psychology are indispensable for the preparation of the final Test and for the attendance of the master's degree courses oriented towards clinical psychologists.

General Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychometrics, Physiological Psychology, Elements of Psychopathology

Knowledge and understanding: Lessons and seminars.

Applying knowledge and understanding: groups, seminars and dynamic interactions.

Making judgements: Materials for group discussion.

Communication Skills: Set presentation in class session.

Learning skills: Groups and seminars

Knowledge and ability

written examination composed of open questions

Knowledge and comprehension skills applied

Discussion in the classroom in which students will participate in the analysis of clinical cases.

Autonomy of judgement

In the exam, there will be problems and issues aimed at evaluating the student's ability to properly frame the pathological problems.

Communicative Skills

The examination will assess the ability to know how to treat clinical and pathological aspects with an adequate level of deepening and with appropriate technical language.

Ability to learn

The topics indispensable for the preparation of the final Test and for the attendance of the master's degree courses oriented towards clinical psychologists will be object of verification through open questions during the exam

Aim of the course is to illustrate the essential of clinical psychology and its complexity. It will be stressed to adopt a phenomenological as well hermeneutic perspective in the clinical work. The cocept of “demand analysis” will be discussed in length. The unifying element throughout the course will be an integrative perspective, to avoid to get caught by “fashionable” last minute models which cyclically pop up inside this discipline. In the applied part of the course, the most common mental disorders will be described and analyzed, with emphasis on mental disorders highly prevalent in chidhood or adolescence. An important part of the course will deal with assessment instrument to demonstrate the different phases of clinical intervention.

Health and well-being.