2017/2018

2019/2020

DM270

M-PSI/08 (CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY)

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, NEUROSCIENCE, EXPERIMENTAL AND FORENSIC MEDICINE

DIETISTIC

PERCORSO COMUNE

3°

2nd semester (02/03/2020 - 19/06/2020)

2

16 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST

BERLINCIONI VANNA (titolare) - 2 ECTS

The course in intended to provide basic assumptions on eating disorders to assist the dietician towards a proper diagnosis and a right terapeutic approach

The course of Clinical psychology for Dietitians concens the following topics:
- ED general defintions
- ED historical development
- Epidemiology diagnosis and clinical description of the main clinical pictures (anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, obesity, atypical ED, age of development ED)
- ED Aetiology: individual aspects (genetical, biological, psychological) and collective aspects (familiar, environmental and socio-cultural)
- ED psychodinamics interpretation
- ED medical complications
- ED devolopment e prognosis
- ED therapeutic elements (various therapeutic approaches, income and taking charge, integrated intervention, hospitalization, psychopharmacology, individual and group psychotherapy, family supportive family psychotherapy)

Lectures
Clinical materials videos

Bibliography for those attending Lectures:
R.J. Comer. Fondamentals of Abnormal Psychology. Worth Publishers, New York, 2014. Cap. 9 ED
P. Jeammet. Anorexie Boulimie. Le paradoxes de l’adolescence. Hachette, 2004.
G. Apfeldorfer. Anorexie boulimie obesité. Flammarion, 1994.
R.A. Gordon. Anorexia and bulimia. Anatomy of Social Epidemic. Basic Blackwell Ltd, Oxford, 1990
H. Bruch. Conversation with Anorexics. Basic Books, New York, 1988
W. Vandereycken, R. van Deth. From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls. 1994.

Oral examination