Psycology and Health

General goals
 Course's general goal is to enable students to analyse a request of clinical-psychological intervention, understand its meaning inside a coherent theoretical frame, construct an intervention project coherent with the analysis, find methods and techniques useful for its realisation, verify the process and the final result. For this purpose, during the classes will be discussed the main orientations in clinical psychology, their limits and their effect on problems pertaining intervention in clinical psychology. Specific goals 1)Knowledge and understanding To know the fundamentals of clinical psychology according to the evaluation and intervention processes on individuals, organisations, and communities 2) Applying knowledge and understanding To arrange an individual and/or group assessment aimed at understanding the emotional dynamics at the basis of the intervention request To arrange the stages of data collection, analysis, and interpretation, formulation of intervention hypotheses, identification of tools and methods useful for the intervention implementation To detect the indicators of process and result verification To write a clinical report 3) Making judgements The student will learn to manage the evaluation of client's verbal and non-verbal behaviours, so to seize the main expressed and hidden meanings, inside a frame of theoretical and methodological coherence. To know the restrictions established by the code of professional conduct 4) Communication skills The student will learn to use an adequate technical lexicon to communicate with colleagues and other experts, and a clear and understandable language to communicate with persons in general 5)Learning skills To exactly understand difficult texts To be able to summarise them and express them in a clear and coherent way To be able to detect the critical and/or contradictory elements of a theory