PSICOLOGIA CLINICA E RIABILITAZIONE

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff Credit Value: 8
Scientific field
  • M-PSI/08 - Clinical psychology
  • MED/25 - Psychiatry
  • MED/48 - Neuropsychiatric and rehabilitation nursing sciences
Taught classes: 56 hours
Term / Semester:
ENGLISH VERSION

Learning Objectives

  • Psychiatry

    Acquisition of theoretical knowledge of general psychopathology. Description of syndromes and subdivision there of according to the psychic functions higher and the main signs and symptoms evaluated for each mental disorder. Acquisition of the general principles of supportive care drug and psychotherapeutic type.

  • Nursing sciences and neuropsychiatric and rehabilitative techniques

    To provide knowledge on the rehabilitative project, tools and techniques in patients with neurological and/ or mental disability. To acquire skills required to plan and implement preventive and rehabilitative interventions.


Course Structure

  • Psychiatry

    A presentation lesson that briefly summarizes the program of the course.
    The contents are ordered to encourage continuous learning.
    The lessons are held with the slides.

  • Nursing sciences and neuropsychiatric and rehabilitative techniques

    frontal interactive lessons and seminars

    Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus


Detailed Course Content

  • Psychiatry

    Psychopathology and clinical methodology. Anxiety disorders. Dissociative disorders. Somatoform and psychosomatic disorders. Mood disorders. Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Eating disorders. Personality disorders. Signs of psychiatric pharmacotherapy. Psychoterapies.

  • Nursing sciences and neuropsychiatric and rehabilitative techniques

    Rehabilitation project and diagnosis. Outcome levels. Neurobiological basis of cognitive rehabilitation. Brain learning and plasticity. Effects of training on brain plasticity. Multistrategy rehabilitation approaches. The interprofessional team in health care. Rehabilitation of awareness and pragmatic communication after brain injury. The holistic-integrated and bottom-up approach. Occupational therapy. Social-work reintegration. Rehabilitation approaches in patients with a vegetative state and of minimal consciousness state. Modulation of cognitive performance through transcranial brain stimulation.


Textbook Information

  • Psychiatry

    1. Pallanti Stefano. Psichiatria Elementare. Oltre il DSM 5. Carrocci Editore, 2016

  • Nursing sciences and neuropsychiatric and rehabilitative techniques

    - Kandel et al. Principi di Neuroscienze Quarta edizione. Casa Editrice Ambrosiana 2014

    - La riabilitazione neuropsicologica -premesse teoriche ed applicazioni cliniche- a cura di Anna Mazzucchi; Masson terza edizione

    - slides and other didactic materials provided by the teacher