Clinical Psychology

Activity type

Attività formative affini o integrative

SSD

M-PSI/04

Year

2nd year

Semester

2nd semester

CFU

6

Hours distribution

24 classroom hours, 36 laboratory hours

Lecturers

SABINE PIRCHIO

Activity type

Attività formative affini o integrative

SSD

M-PSI/04

Year

2nd year

Semester

2nd semester

CFU

6

Hours distribution

48 classroom hours

Lecturers

Angela Guarino

Aims

General aims
Through the course the students will reach a good knowledge of the most recent theories of typical and atypical deve-lopment in the field of cognition, learning and social development. They will be able to analyze and critically discuss the contribution of different theoretical positions and recent empirical results. They will master the main research methods in this area and will be able to plan and carry out study and field intervention projects.

Specific aims

knowledge and understanding
Upon completion of the course the student will be able to describe and critically discuss the main approaches and theoretical models that explain development. He will be able to describe constructs, processes and mechanisms of typical and atypical individual development. He will be aware of the main methodologies and research designs for the study of development and the detection of changes in skills and functions over the course of life.

applying knowledge and understanding
Upon completion of the course the student will be able to critically read a research article in the field of developmental psychology by identifying the theoretical reference model, analyzing the methodology used in order to interpret the results in terms of knowledge advancement in the discipline, limits and potentialities of practical application in educational and clinical intervention. He will also be able to set up and carry out a bibliographic search in the field of developmental psychology.

making judgements
The student will be able to identify areas of application of the models, approaches and methodologies typical of developmental psychology in the clinical field, both to address educational practices promoting development, and to promptly identify deviant development trajectories and to design clinical interventions.

communication skills
The student will learn to read and produce appropriate forms of communication to describe and discuss development processes including: scientific articles, reports, oral presentations, argumentative texts.
He will be able to present a coherent discourse on the discipline and to coordinate a discussion on the matter.

learning skills
The work of individual study, analysis of research articles and systematic review, small group work and inverted lessons will allow the acquisition of flexible and effective strategies and learning methods.

Aims

General aims
The course aims to provide students with the acquisition of the main knowledge indicated in the program and the development of basic theoretical, technical and methodological skills for clinical interventions on the cognitive and emotional impact on the child and on the family of the main serious pathologies that require frequent hospital admissions during childhood and adolescence, with particular preparation on the psycho-physiology of the developmental age.
Lectures provide students with the knowledge of the basic principles that guide assessment and intervention in these specific situations and encourage students to acquire technical language and the ability to ana-lyze both hospital and family settings.
The seminars allow students the direct knowledge of representative experts from six different sectors and the deepening of certain topics covered in class.

Specific aims
Students will be able to connect in a logical and coherent way the topics covered during the course, depen-ding on the stage of the child's illness.
They will have developed clinical, methodological and intervention skills in atypical developmental psycho-logy (eg, assessment of risk factors and resources, psychodiagnostic capacity, design of psychological support interventions and distraction therapies, etc.).
They will have developed the ability to deepen the topics covered.
They will have acquired a language appropriate to the subject.

knowledge and understanding
Knowledge of the main pathologies that give rise to frequent hospitalizations in the age of development, knowledge of the psychological dynamics of the sick child and the family, knowledge of the hospital orga-nizations and their health dynamics, knowledge of the therapies of proven effectiveness and psychological interventions Pediatrics appropriate and appropriate to the various cases addressed.

applying knowledge and understanding
Knowing how to identify and frame clinically psychological problems of the child, secondary to the illness he is af-fected, decode and intervene on the psychological reactions of the family with appropriate support, know the health organizations in the sector.

making judgements
Acquire the ability to evaluate theoretical models, clinical and methodological tools suitable for the case of intervention, based on the pathology of the child, including through group processing.

communication skills
Continuous exposure to the specialized and psychological medical nomenclature, ability to use technical language and appropriate vocabulary, exercises to communicate in a clear, direct, logical and coherent way.

learning skills
Provide basic knowledge of the main diseases that result in prolonged hospitalizations, knowledge of specific clinical and methodological tools for children, adolescents and their families in the course of serious illnesses, even fatal; lear-ning of transversal knowledge between specialist medicine, oncology and psychoncology; to connect the knowledge learned in other subjects in a critical and functional way; recognize and evaluate clinical interventions that are possible and appropriate to the context.

Module: Psychology of typical and atypical development
Upon completion of the course the student will be able to describe and critically discuss the main approaches and theoretical models that explain development. He will be able to describe constructs, processes and mechanisms of typical and atypical individual development. He will be aware of the main methodologies and research designs for the study of development and the detection of changes in skills and functions over the course of life.
The student will be able to critically read a research article in the field of developmental psychology by identifying the theoretical reference model, analyzing the methodology used in order to interpret the results in terms of knowledge advancement in the discipline, limits and potentialities of practical application in educational and clini-cal intervention. He will also be able to set up and carry out a bibliographic search in the field of developmental psychology.
The student will be able to identify areas of application of the models, approaches and methodologies typical of de-velopmental psychology in the clinical field, both to address educational practices promoting development, and to promptly identify deviant development trajectories and to design clinical interventions.
The student will learn to read and produce appropriate forms of communication to describe and discuss development processes including: scientific articles, reports, oral presentations, argumentative texts.
The student will be able to present a coherent discourse on the discipline and to coordinate a discussion on the matter.
The work of individual study, analysis of research articles and systematic review, small group work and inverted lessons will allow the acquisition of flexible and effective strategies and learning methods.



Module: Psychological interventions for the child in hospital
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Module: Psychology of typical and atypical development
The prerequisites consist in the indispensable knowledge of the scientific method and in particular of the methods used in psychology. Knowledge of English in reading is important.



Module: Psychological interventions for the child in hospital
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Module: Psychology of typical and atypical development
The following topics will be covered:
- the contexts of development
- perceptive development
- motor development
- cognitive development
- communicative and language development
- social development


Module: Psychological interventions for the child in hospital
N/D

Module: Psychology of typical and atypical development
"Manuale di psicologia dello sviluppo" a cura di Lavinia Barone, Carocci editore.
Attending students will receive, lesson by lesson, assignments amor readings and bibliography analysis consistent with the subject but agreed with the specific interests of the class.


Module: Psychological interventions for the child in hospital
N/D

Module: Psychology of typical and atypical development
N/D
Module: Psychological interventions for the child in hospital
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Module: Psychology of typical and atypical development
In the teaching activities proposed in this teaching, different types of learning experience are combined, including: - lectures for the transmission of theoretical knowledge on research theories and methodologies
- group exercises
- group work for the realization of a review of studies
- flipped lesson for the acquisition of communication skills on the discipline


Module: Psychological interventions for the child in hospital
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Module: Psychology of typical and atypical development
Optional


Module: Psychological interventions for the child in hospital
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Module: Psychology of typical and atypical development
The test assess the student's knowledge of the theories, methods, constructs and processes that identify the developmental psychology in typical and atypical paths.
The test consists of a written assignment with open-ended stimulus questions.
For attending students there will be a pre-exam at the end of the course and the delivery of a practical work of literature review.


Module: Psychological interventions for the child in hospital
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Module: Psychology of typical and atypical development
Discuss the relationship between psychological factors in typical or atypical development


Module: Psychological interventions for the child in hospital
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Module: Psychology of typical and atypical development
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Module: Psychological interventions for the child in hospital
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