Cognitive Neurosciences and Psychological Rehabilitation

General Aims: Know the main theoretical models, know counseling and interview techniques and know how to apply them in a counseling interview. The aim of the lectures is to know the theoretical models and the approaches to the interview and to counseling and the aim of the laboratory is to practice the application of the couneling skills within these theoretical frameworks. The course consists of a theoretical part (3 credits) and an applied laboratory part (3 credits). Upon completion of the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following specific learning objectives (Dublin indicators): I. Knowledge and understanding : Students must be able to know and understand the phases and procedures for carrying out an interview, they will have to know and understand the main approaches to counseling, be aware of the ethical aspects, recognize and distinguish the abilities and the micro abilities of the counselor. They should know the limits of counseling and the differences with psychotherapy. II. Applying knowledge and understanding: know how to apply the knowledge and phases of counseling and theoretical models within the conduction of an interview with a specific aim, recognize and appropriately use the skills and micro-skills of the interview and the counseling, and be able to connect the interventions within an interview to a theoretical reference model. Knowing how to apply one's own knowledge to set an interview with a specific aim and be able to argue the reasons that lead to choose a specific technique. Being able to read, understand and critically evaluate scientific articles. Show critical use of the results of one or more research studies. III. Making judgements: The students must be able to critically evaluate the data in his possession in relation to the case in question and to make a judgment based on the available information given. The students will be able to collect information and acquire a greater awareness of his / her own natural response style as a counselor under training; he/she will be able to understand the communication modalities and the main communication errors of his / her clients and find suitable ways to modify them. The students will develop the ability to know how to conduct an interview, critically establish an aim within an interview and take initiative, intentionally choose which strategy and which microskill should be adopted. The activities that contribute to the development of such skills are: work on transcripts of extracts from interviews, interviews conducted at home, interviews recorded, transcribed, and analyzed in classroom, role-playing and in-vivo interviews, video analysis, analysis of scientific articles. IV. Communication skills: The students must know how to use a language suitable for interviewing and counseling, knowing how to choose the most appropriate skill in relation to the client, knowing how to communicate in an empathic way, knowing how to ask questions to a possible client, choosing the most appropriate form of communication with the client, students must know how to paraphrase, reflecting emotions and meaning, summarize, clarify, effectively confront the clients taking into account the different phases of the interview. Students will learn to recognize the generalizations and other distortions present in the language of a possible client, and they will learn to confront them in a respectful way. They will have to communicate and write in Italian in a comprehensible form, free from grammatical or syntactic errors. The students will develop all these skills through classroom exercises, video viewing, transcription analysis and live interviewing and role-playing. V. Learning skills. The students will have the knowledge necessary for continuous learning and for updating their knowledge. The students can continue to apply the learned techniques, integrating them into their own personal style, acquiring genuineness in their use. The students will have the ability to use and consult various bibliographic sources in Italian and English and to assess their relevance, to consult the main counseling journals, and the sites of National and International scientific associations for the purpose of continuous updating.