COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP
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- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Teacher
- STEFANO CARACCIOLO
- Credits
- 5
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
Training objectives
- GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
Students will be able to show competences concerning basic cognitive processes (attention, consciousness, language, communication, intelligence, motivation, emotion) and know the fundamental theoretical approaches to the study of personality (trait, biological, phenomenology, behavioristic and cognitive approaches)
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
The student will know the disease-centred model and the patient-centred model and will acquire notions concerning the ICF classification system; know the major learning theories; acquire knowledge about personal and environmental factors that influence the functioning of the person with a particular health condition and about health-related quality of life; learn concepts related to the cognitive, emotional and behavioural reactions of the family coping with illness; acquire notions about burnout syndrome and skills related to assertive communication.
PSYCHOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT AND OF EDUCATION
Know the development of motor, cognitive, emotional and social activities, from infancy to adolescence. Being able to describe and reflect on childhood development, in terms of "normality" and pathology. The child and the teenager in the family context. Prerequisites
- Historical and philosophical bases of psychology, introductory elements of psychometry mathematics and statistics.
Course programme
- GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
Cognitive processes psychology: attention, consciousness, language, communication, intelligence, motivation, emotion
study of personality (trait, biological, phenomenology, behavioristic and cognitive approaches)
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Theoretical framework: the disease-centred model, the patient-centred model and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).
Learning theories: respondent conditioning (Pavlov), operant conditioning (Skinner) and modeling (Bandura).
Personal factors: self-efficacy, attributive style, optimistic orientation, hardiness, coping, illness representation and health-related behaviours and adherence.
Environmental factors: therapeutic alliance and stigma. Health-related quality of life in head and neck cancer, brain injury, strabismus and psychopathology.
The family: caregiver and cognitive, emotional and behavioral reactions when coping with traumatic brain injury, head and neck cancer and psychopathology.
Health worker: burnout syndrome and assertive communication.
PSYCHOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT AND OF EDUCATION
Background of psychology development (origins, history, methods)
Psychomotor and cognitive development (motor development, perception, intelligence, thought, language, image design and text)
Social and affective development (motivation and decision, affective life and his development, emotions and emotional development, sociality and social development, moral life and his development)
Normality and psychopathology of development (nods).
Illness in the family context. Parenting. The attachment. The child and the teenager in the family life cycle. Didactic methods
- Traditional lectures, open seminars of discussion of clinical observations.
Learning assessment procedures
- GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY: Oral examination based on the discussion of a written paper on a predetermined theme. The propriety of language, the originality of content and the appropriate use of the concepts discussed in the lectures will be assessed.
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: the aim of the examination is to test the level of achievement of the previously mentioned educational goals. The exam consists of an oral exam which includes a total of three questions. For each answer, I will evaluate the appropriates of the lessicale choice; coherence, cohesion and planning of the speech; the level of content processing; the ability to link and compare different aspects of the topics covered in the course. For each of these items three scores are provided (corresponding to “poor performance”, “good performance”, “excellent performance”) whose sum constitutes the overall score obtained to the question; in turn, the sum of these scores is the total score, corresponding to the final vote. Particularly satisfactory performance guarantee praise.
PSYCHOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT AND OF EDUCATION: oral examination
THE FINAL GRADE IS A ARITHMETIC AVERAGE OF THE MARKS OBTAINED IN EACH TESTS. Reference texts
- GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
Myers, Psicologia, Zanichelli Bologna
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Handout provided by the teacher
PSYCHOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT AND OF EDUCATION
Fonzi A (a cura di), Manuale di psicologia dello sviluppo, Giunti, Firenze 2001
Materials provided by the teacher
