Educational objectives General aims
The course aims to provide students with a knowledge of the history of clinical methodologies in the psy-chological and psychiatric sciences from the eighteenth century to the present. For each method of inter-vention the stories of the researchers who helped to build clinical psychology and the social and cultural objectives that led them to elaboration of specific mental models will be analyzed.
In particular, the differences between the psychological and psychiatric traditions will be highlighted. The course will focus on the history of clinical intervention in psychology, starting from the initial models that have influenced clinical psychology. In particular, the assumptions underlying the contributions that de-fined the psychological intervention in psychopathology and the current modeling of the intervention will be highlighted. In particular, the topics covered will concern the following areas:
Analysis of the construction of the clinical method in psychology.
The origin of theories of psy interventions.
History of mental models in clinical psychology.
The psychological-clinical intervention in contemporary epistemological critique.
History of psychopathology.
History of psychotherapy.
Specific aims
Knowledge and understanding
The course provides the student with the ability to understand which clinical models will be able to use in dealing with intervention situations. In particular, he will be able to discriminate between the different approaches to psychopathology.
Applying knowledge and understanding
Students will learn through history how the interventions in psychology and psychiatry have developed; students will also be able to relate to colleagues who have had professional training different from the psychological one.
Making judgements
Passing the exam implies the acquisition of the ability to critically judge one's clinical work in the diagno-sis and planning of the psychological intervention.
Communication skills
The student will acquire a useful vocabulary for communicative exchange with the different figures oper-ating in the field of mental health.
Learning skills
The course completes the student's clinical training, helping him to contextualize his own intervention, choosing his own approach also based on the history of clinical psychology and psychiatry.
The student must demonstrate that he has acquired sufficient knowledge of the course topics with a basic consistency. To achieve a score of 30/30 cum laude, the student must demonstrate that he has acquired excellent knowledge of all the topics covered during the course, being able to link them in a logical and consistent way.
Prerequisites
It is important that the student has acquired previous skills in the history of the psychological sciences
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Educational objectives General aims
The course aims at providing the students with a panoramic of the theories and research studies concern-ing the aspects of psychological functioning that include the adjustment, cognition, organization of affec-tive experience and reorganizazion of identity following migration activities and cultural change. In this perspective, risk and protective factors are also considered that influence individual adjustment in the new social and cultural contexts and the relative implications for well-being and psychopathology.
Specific Aims
Knowledge and Understanding
In order to pass the exam, the student has to be able to analyze the main aspects of psychological func-tioning in the light of the theories presented as well as to vet the relative implications for individual ad-justment of the impact of migration processes.
Application of the knowledge and understanding
The use of the theories presented will allow the student who has passed the exam to identify the key modes of psychological functioning as well as the risk and protective factors activated by migration processes.
Making Judgment
The course prompts the student to identify the specific aspects of the specific conditions and the adjust-ment difficulties linked to migration processes.
Comunicative skills
Passing the exam entails the mastery of the meaning and evaluation implications of the theories of mi-gration processes and cultural change.
Learning skills
During the traditional lectures the students will learn to evaluate the impact of migration processes and cultural change on individual psychological functioning and adjustmet.
Prerequisites
It is important that the student possesses the knowledge of the basis of the development of psychological heories concerning cognitive and affective functioning as well as of the develompemntal processes of social cognition.
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