PSICOPATHOLOGY OF FOOD AND NUTRITION

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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Integrated educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

DIE32C4

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020

Year of supply:

2022/2023

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in DIETISTIC

Moduls:

CLINICAL PSICOLOGY - 1 credits
CLINICAL NUTRITION - 1 credits
PSYCHIATRY - 2 credits
NEUROLOGY - 1 credits
DIETETICS IN DISORDERED EATING BEHAVIOURS (DEB) - 1 credits
DIETETICS IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL DISEASES - 2 credits

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites as per the Didactic Regulations

Objectives

The course aims to provide knowledge and skills as well as develop skills related to nutritional, psychiatric, psychological, and dietary approaches applied to Eating Behavior Disorders.
The course aims also to provide to develop skills related to nutritional approaches and the dynamics of the relationship between nutrition and health, nutrition, and neurologic diseases.
In addition, the course aims also to complete the training with notions and instruments that will help the student to deepen the psychological aspects of clinical psychology, as well as instruments for the identification of the psychiatric symptoms in patients with medical and diabetic diseases.

Contents

Introduction to clinical psychology, psychiatry, neurology, dietetics, and application areas. Feeding and eating disorders: etiology, diagnostic criteria, main intervention, and treatments. Individual factors, risk factors, psychological aspects, psychological distress and feeding and eating disorder. Obesity, psychological aspects, and treatment.

Extended Syllabus

Motivational communication strategies; Evaluation of food intake in Eating Behavior Disorders Evaluation of nutritional status in eating disorders; Nutritional Rehabilitation in Eating Disorders; The Role of Dietitians in Eating Disorders; Processing of nutritional therapy in eating disorders; The assisted meal; Re-feeding syndrome; Multidisciplinary approach and rehabilitation. Admission to a center for DCA and obesity. Medical nutrition therapy and Diabetes Mellitus
1. Introduction in the neurological disease
2. Fondaments of Neuroanatomy
3. Neurological pictures of agnosia, aphasia, alexia, apraxia, amnestic deficit)

Recommended Bibliography

Hooley J., Butcher J.N., Nock M.K. (2017), Psicopatologia e psicologia clinica.
- Dietoterapia e Nutrizione Clinica di E. Del Toma, Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore.
- Conoscenze attuali in Nutrizione di E.E. Ziegler – L.J. Filer Jr. (Ed. Italiana), Piccin Nuova Libraria.
- Manuale di Nutrizione Clinica e Scienze Dietetiche Applicate di P. Binetti, M. Marcelli, R. Baisi, Società
Editrice Universo.
- Nutrizione umana di F. Fidanza, G. Liguori, Idelson Gnocchi Ed.
Neurologia Cambier
Ed Masson.
Fairburn C.G. La terapia cognitivo comportamentale dei disturbi dell'alimentazione. Edizione italiana a cura di A. Carrozza e R. Dalle Grave. Eclipsi, 2010
Disturbi del comportamento alimentare. Terapia dietetica. De Filippo E., Corvino A., Silvestri E., Contaldo F. Editore: Idelson-Gnocchi. 2001
NEUROSCIENZE DEL COMPORTAMENTO ALIMENTARE. Valerio Manippa. Edizioni A.L.E
Guidelines. Teaching material illustrated in class and in-depth analysis of the most recent scientific literature in the lesson provided by the teacher.

Teaching Methods

Frontal lessons. Interactive Teaching. Discussion of clinical cases.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination

Contacts/More Information

For explanations and clarifications, the teacher is available after email scheduling.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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