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PSYCHOSOMATICS AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 1 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 Psychosomatics and Clinical Health Psychology: theoretical, diagnostic and intervention models.
Extended Syllabus Modern psychosomatic medicine; Patient management; Emotions and personality; Mentalization; Attachment models in psychosomatic medicine; Loneliness; Alexithymia; Illness experience; Abnormal illness behavior; Individual styles of illness and somatization; Somatosensory amplification; Attributional style; Illness representation; Allostatic load; Diagnostic approaches; The example of gastroenterology; Eating disorders and obesity.
Recommended Bibliography - Porcelli P. (2022). Medicina Psicosomatica e Psicologia
Methods of Provision Teaching Methods The course is structured in 48 hours of frontal teaching. This amount is divided into 2-3 hours lessons according to the academic calendar. 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.
Contacts/More Information For explanations and clarifications, the teacher is available after email scheduling.
