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CLINICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
As a prerequisite, the students are required a psychological clinical knowledge.
Objectives Contents Clinical Health Psychology: theoretical, diagnostic and intervention models.
Extended Syllabus The health psychology: goals, contexts and perspectives; From the biomedical model to the biopsychosocial model and beyond; Health status and quality of life; Wellness and positive psychology; Representations of health and disease; Emotions, emotional regulation and health; Influence of the personality; Personal resources and health; Health behavior: reference models and theories; Stress and coping; Lifestyles and risk behaviors; Adherence and self-protective behavior; Psycho-neuro-endocrine-immunology; Health and positive functioning during life; Health and positive aging; Somatic disease: the example of cardiovascular diseases; Quality of care and communication with the patient; Community interventions for health promotion; Social marketing and communication campaigns on the risk of health; Occupational health psychology; Labor changes: new risks for the well-being of workers; Psychological intervention in situations of emergency and of mourning; Doctor and psychologist together for primary care; The classification of the DCPR.
Recommended Bibliography - P. Enrico Ricci Bitti & P. Gremigni (2014), Psicologia della salute. Modelli teorici e contesti applicativi. Carocci Editore, Roma.
Methods of Provision Teaching Methods The course contents are presented through lessons in lecture hall, taking advantage of power point slides (made available to the students), and through the presentation of explicative clinical cases.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The exam will be constituted by an oral examination aimed to assess the knowledge, the conceptual mastery, the linguistic skills, the ability of interpretation and analysis of clinical psychological and health topics. The exam will be evaluated on a score range from 18 to 30. A score 18-23 indicates a sufficient knowledge, 23-28 a good level of knowledge, 28-30 an excellent knowledge, "cum laude" particular abilities of analysis and critical reasoning.
