Clinical Psychology
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
- Understand the evolving history of clinical psychology in the international and Italian landscape, with special emphasis on clinical psychology in hospitals
- Know how to conduct an anamnestic interview
- Know how to conduct a basic psychological examination
- Be able to initiate a diagnostic procedure according to the DSM system
- Know the importance of differential diagnosis between physical disorders with psychic symptoms, psychopathological conditions
- Understand the importance of multidisciplinary approach by integrating clinical psychology with other medical specialties.
- Know ethical and deontological aspects specific to clinical psychology diagnosis and intervention, particularly in the hospital setting.
- Know how to conduct an anamnestic interview
- Know how to conduct a basic psychological examination
- Be able to initiate a diagnostic procedure according to the DSM system
- Know the importance of differential diagnosis between physical disorders with psychic symptoms, psychopathological conditions
- Understand the importance of multidisciplinary approach by integrating clinical psychology with other medical specialties.
- Know ethical and deontological aspects specific to clinical psychology diagnosis and intervention, particularly in the hospital setting.
Expected learning outcomes
At the completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Know how to critically participate in clinical interviews
- Conduct a simulated clinical interview
- Integrate Theory with Practice: Apply theoretical knowledge of clinical psychology to real clinical situations
- Know how to collaborate effectively with other health professionals to provide integrated care.
- Know how to critically participate in clinical interviews
- Conduct a simulated clinical interview
- Integrate Theory with Practice: Apply theoretical knowledge of clinical psychology to real clinical situations
- Know how to collaborate effectively with other health professionals to provide integrated care.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Course syllabus
1. Theoretical perspectives of interventions:
- A journey through time
- First itinerary. Medicine between biology and subjectivity
- Second itinerary. Existential and spiritual perspectives
- Third itinerary. Organization and economics of health systems.
- Fourth itinerary. Psychology and psychiatry in the hospital 34 6. Obstacles to the integration of clinical psychology in the hospital
2. Diagnoses:
- Confusion of languages and different perspectives of observation
- Not everything is as it seems: the differential diagnosis
- From body to mind: psycho-organic factors in serious illnesses
- Pathophysiological mechanisms in psychic alterations
- Psychic responses when the body becomes ill
- Attachment to thought: illness as trauma
- Living legacies: psychodynamic perspectives
- Common names for things: diagnoses for clinicians
3. Methods of interdisciplinary intervention:
- Managing complexity: theory and practice
- What does the job do? The role of the mental health specialist
- Theories for organization: consultation or linkage?
- Small obstacles to integration in the multidisciplinary team
- When it hurts: contraindications to intervention
- Referral to the mental health specialist
- Visits and opinions: organizing consultation
- How it's done: the methodology of clinical psychological intervention
- Pills and words: psychopharmacological support
- Family resource support
- A network support: social intervention
- Ways of saying and ways of doing: the techniques of psychotherapy
- Intervention in the developmental age
4. Effectiveness of clinical psychological intervention:
- Intervention techniques
- Tactical aspects Welcoming, accompanying, communicating and relationship building
- Opening moves: the first meeting with the patient
- Good practices in general: the nonspecific factors
- Communicating the diagnosis
- Moving forward: after the first interview
- The changing body in pain
- Sadness and distress or anxious and depressive symptoms
- «Compliance» and refusal of treatments
- Surgical interventions
- Suicide
- Terminal illness and death
- Healing and chronicity
- A journey through time
- First itinerary. Medicine between biology and subjectivity
- Second itinerary. Existential and spiritual perspectives
- Third itinerary. Organization and economics of health systems.
- Fourth itinerary. Psychology and psychiatry in the hospital 34 6. Obstacles to the integration of clinical psychology in the hospital
2. Diagnoses:
- Confusion of languages and different perspectives of observation
- Not everything is as it seems: the differential diagnosis
- From body to mind: psycho-organic factors in serious illnesses
- Pathophysiological mechanisms in psychic alterations
- Psychic responses when the body becomes ill
- Attachment to thought: illness as trauma
- Living legacies: psychodynamic perspectives
- Common names for things: diagnoses for clinicians
3. Methods of interdisciplinary intervention:
- Managing complexity: theory and practice
- What does the job do? The role of the mental health specialist
- Theories for organization: consultation or linkage?
- Small obstacles to integration in the multidisciplinary team
- When it hurts: contraindications to intervention
- Referral to the mental health specialist
- Visits and opinions: organizing consultation
- How it's done: the methodology of clinical psychological intervention
- Pills and words: psychopharmacological support
- Family resource support
- A network support: social intervention
- Ways of saying and ways of doing: the techniques of psychotherapy
- Intervention in the developmental age
4. Effectiveness of clinical psychological intervention:
- Intervention techniques
- Tactical aspects Welcoming, accompanying, communicating and relationship building
- Opening moves: the first meeting with the patient
- Good practices in general: the nonspecific factors
- Communicating the diagnosis
- Moving forward: after the first interview
- The changing body in pain
- Sadness and distress or anxious and depressive symptoms
- «Compliance» and refusal of treatments
- Surgical interventions
- Suicide
- Terminal illness and death
- Healing and chronicity
Prerequisites for admission
No prior knowledge is required.
Teaching methods
Lectures. Learning material (papers e slides) will be available online.
Teaching Resources
Clerici, C. A., & Veneroni, L. (2014). La psicologia clinica in ospedale: Consulenza e modelli d'intervento. Bologna: Il Mulino.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Written exam (discussion of clinical cases).
M-PSI/08 - CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY - University credits: 7
Lessons: 42 hours
Professor:
Clerici Carlo Alfredo
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Clerici Carlo AlfredoProfessor(s)