Enrollment year
2021/2022
Academic discipline
M-PSI/08 (CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, NEUROSCIENCE, EXPERIMENTAL AND FORENSIC MEDICINE
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
(04/03/2024 - 19/06/2024)
Lesson hours
16 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Learning outcomes
The course in intended to provide basic assumptions on eating disorders to assist the dietician towards a proper diagnosis and a right terapeutic approach
Course contents
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)
Teaching methods
On-line lectures
Clinical materials videos
Reccomended or required readings
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.
Assessment methods
On-ine oral examination
Further information
On-ine oral examination
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