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The student must acquire 6 CFU from the following exams
LessonYearSemesterCFUSSDLanguage
10611910 | HISTORY OF PSYCHOTHERAPY2nd2nd6M-STO/05ENG

Educational objectives

General Objectives
The teaching aims to provide students with an understanding of the history of therapeutic methodologies in the psychological and psychiatric sciences from the 18th century to contemporary times.
For each method of intervention, the histories of the researchers who helped construct it and the social and cultural goals that prompted its development will be analyzed. Starting with magical and religious practices, the history of psychotherapy will be reconstructed, focusing in particular on psychoanalysis and its role in relation to other psychotherapeutic models developed during the twentieth century.
In particular, differences between psychological and psychiatric traditions will be highlighted.
Both the assumptions underlying the contributions that have defined psychological intervention in psychopathology and the current modeling related to intervention will be highlighted. In particular, the topics will cover the following areas:
Analysis of the construction of the clinical method in psychology.
History of magical-spiritual therapies
History of scientific psychopathology
History of psychiatry
History of psychoanalysis
Diffusion of different types of psychotherapies

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

10616489 | PSYCHOLOGY OF THE MIGRATION PROCESSES2nd2nd6M-PSI/05ENG

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.

10621437 | Medical anthropology2nd2nd6M-DEA/01ENG

Educational objectives

The Medical Anthropology course aims to explore the fundamental moments of medical anthropology, with a glance at the related discipline of Ethnopsychiatry. In particular, it intends to explore the entirety of anthropological reflection concerning the dimension of meaning of Illness, the entirety of social, cultural, economic, and political processes that revolve around the experience that, in a given society, is considered pathological.

The course focuses on the following general objectives:

- Definition, understanding, and reconstruction of "medical anthropology"
- Exploration of the social and cultural dimension of pain
- Understanding of the social determinants of ailments
- Reconstruction of the debate on the relationship between Anthropology and "psi" disciplines

And the following specific objectives:

- Analysis of the cultural construction of the condition of "healthy" and "sick"
- Exploration of the cultural and social dimensions of the notions of "etiology", "care", "healing", "therapy"
- Exploration of the meaning, function, and reason of "other" therapeutics
- Understanding of the anthropological critique of "biomedical reductionism"
- Analysis of the relationship between illness and poverty.

This course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the complex relationships between culture, society, and health, and will equip them with the critical thinking skills necessary to analyze and address the social and cultural determinants of health.