Cognitive neuroscience

MATTEO CANDIDI

General aims
The curricular internship (TPV) is made of 20 CFU of practical activities contextualized and finalized to learning the abilities typical of the profession of psychologist. The TPV is divided in activities performed in the Institution of the course as well as in structures in convention (IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Istituto di Biologia Cellulare e Neurobiologia). As for regulations, the activities will comprise the use of the instruments for intervention and prevention, diagnosis, habilitation and rehabilitation activities, psychological support for single individuals, groups, social bodies and communities, as well as for experimental, research and didactic activities.

Specific aims
Knowledge and understanding
Students will acquire knowledge and understanding of the different contexts in which psychologists work.

Applying knowledge and understanding
Students will develop the ability to autonomously apply professional methods and techniques and to put in practice their comprehension of typical cases and activities handled by professional psychologists in different contexts.

Making judgements
Students will become able to autonomously judge and evaluate the decisions that are taken in different contexts and with different aims put in place by psychologists.

Communication skills
Students will learn to properly communicate with patients, their relatives, and institutions as well as with professionals of different background in order to efficiently cooperate in different work settings.

Learning skills
Students will develop skills to learn in different practical contexts typical of the profession of psychologist ranging from the management of ethical and deontological issues with patients, to the management of research activities.

The student will have acquired, in a contextualized manner, the development of competencies related to the applied contexts of psychology, as well as the procedural and relational skills essential for the practice of the profession. These competencies pertain to the typical and legally protected activities that characterize the profession of the psychologist, in accordance with Article 1 of Law No. 56 of February 18, 1989. They include the use of knowledge and intervention tools for prevention, diagnosis, habilitation-rehabilitation activities, and psychological support aimed at individuals and groups.

Basic knowledge of psychological functions, tools for measuring psychological constructs, typical activities of a psychologist, and the areas of intervention of a psychologist.

To be agreed upon within the framework of the internship training plan by the Host Institution and the Faculty Internship Office.

Code of Ethics of Psychologists.

Practical and contextualized supervised activities.

Mandatory.

Periodic discussions.

Discuss the activities of TPV, linking them to the relevant psychological theories.
Development of projects for the assessment of psychological functions in various contexts, interpretation, and presentation of measurement results.