2018/2019

2018/2019

DM270

M-PSI/08 (CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY)

DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

PSYCHOLOGY

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

1st semester (24/09/2018 - 11/01/2019)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

COSENZA DOMENICO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

It’s essential for the Students attending this course to have the knowledge of the principal stages in typical development.

The first Objective of the Course is to give the Students a framework for psychopathological diagnosis (from early Childhood to Adolescence). The Classification 0-3 and the DSM-V will be the principal tools of reference for the diagnosis. The Student will be also made sensitive to the distinction between the descriptive diagnosis and a more structural dimension of the diagnosis.
The Students must be able to formulate a correct diagnosis and to indicate the principal guidelines for the therapeutic intervention.

We will introduce the discipline of developmental psychopathology, its historical origin in the psychopathological field and the main models of reference which exist.
The main diagnostic tools available to the clinician will be described. In this way, the Student will be able to choose better, in the field of the clinical activity, the most appropriate assessment tools (according to the clinical case and the age of the Child).
A short specific part will be dedicated to Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence.

We will also propose the discussion of a series of clinical cases to consent a “guided practice” discussion on diagnosis and a hypothesis of adequate therapeutic interventions on the specific situations.
Specifically:
- What is Developmental Psychopathology
- Psychological Anamnesis
- Intellectual Disability
- Internalisation Disorders
- Externalisation Disorders

- Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
- Work on Parenting
- The Main Therapeutic Interventions in Developmental Psychopathology

Full-class lessons, and descriptions and discussion of clinical cases with the collaboration also of other psychologists that work in mental health institutions nearby.

COMPULSORY TEXTS:

A) Ammaniti M. (a cura di). Psicopatologia dello sviluppo, Cortina, Milano, 2009.

B) Lucarelli L, Piperno F, Balbo M. Metodi e strumenti di valutazione in Psicopatologia dello sviluppo. Raffaello Cortina Editore 2008. Milano.


C) ELECTIVE TEXTS:
Cosenza D. Il muro dell’anoressia. Astrolabio, Roma 2008, or
Cosenza D. Il cibo e l'inconscio. Psicoanalisi e disturbi alimentari, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2018.

Students who do not attend on regular basis have also to study for the exame one between these 2 books:
Simonelli A (a cura di). La funzione genitoriale. Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, 2014 or

Manaresi F. (a cura di). L'intervento clinico in età evolutiva. Carocci Faber 2012. Roma.

The Examination is oral.

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