Enrollment year
2022/2023
Academic discipline
M-PSI/08 (CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (27/02/2023 - 09/06/2023)
Lesson hours
18 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of clinical (and adolescent) psychology and test theory and technique are a good prerequisite
Learning outcomes
The course, within an evolutionary psychodynamic framework, will focus on the methodological and practical aspects at the basis of a complete psychodiagnosis in adolescence.
The ways to obtain a nosographic diagnosis (in line with DSM-5), but also at the psychodynamic and evolutionary level, will be illustrated.
The practical tools used to complete what has already been learned in previous courses, their preferential use and clinical usefulness in therapeutic work with adolescents will be explored.
Finally, after a rapid contextualization of the aspects of severe suffering in adolescence, clinically highlighted with severe attacks on the body (eating disorders, suicidality, social withdrawal ...), role plays will be carried out to illustrate the practical and methodological applications of what was previously illustrated and allow the student to understand and better organize a psycho-diagnostic reasoning in the field of adolescent psychopathology.
Course contents
1. Introduction to adolescent psychopathology
2. Categorical-dimensional, psychodynamic and evolutionary evaluation
3. Psychodiagnostic assessment in adolescence
4. Tools for clinical evaluation in adolescence (self report, structured and semi-structured diagnostic interviews, projective tests)
5. Guided practical discussion on exemplary clinical vignettes
6. Role play on clinical protocols
Teaching methods
Frontal teaching, analysis of clinical cases, role play, discussion groups
Reccomended or required readings
Testi consigliati:
• Maggiolini (2022) - Psicopatologia del ciclo di vita. Franco Angeli Ed.
• Lancini, Cirillo (2020) - L'adolescente. Psicopatologia e psicoterapia evolutiva. Raffaello Cortina Ed.
• Maggiolini – Pietropolli Charmet (2004) - Manuale di psicologia dell'adolescenza: compiti e conflitti. Franco Angeli Ed.
• Aliprandi, Pelanda, Senise (1991) - Psicoterapia breve d'individuazione. La metodologia di Tommaso Senise nella consultazione con l'adolescente. Ed. Mimesis
• McWilliams (1999). Il caso clinico. Dal colloquio alla diagnosi. Raffaello Cortina Ed.
• Belfiore (2022) – Help! Adolescenti e disagio esistenziale. Villaggio Maori Ed.
Assessment methods
not foreseen
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