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PSICHIATRIA E PSICOLOGIA GENERALE

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff Credit Value: 7
Taught classes: 49 hours
Term / Semester: 2°

Learning Objectives

  • PSICHIATRIA

    The course deals with the study of psychiatric semiological aspects of major mental disorders (Axis I and II) and their international diagnostic classification systems (ICD-11, DSM-V), designed to provide students with the basic knowledge of general psychopathological aspects

  • General Psychology

    The course presents the link between the theoretical and the methodological levels in psychology and investigates the main areas of general psychology, e.g., attention, perception, memory, personality, thinking, communication, language, emotions.


Course Structure

  • PSICHIATRIA

    frontal learning

    Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

  • General Psychology

    Frontal lessons, case series discussion, role playing, working group

     

    Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

    Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.


Detailed Course Content

  • PSICHIATRIA

    1. Psychiatry: the theory 2. Psychiatric Semeiology: appearance, motricity, facial expressions, speech, behavior, anamnesis 3. Psychopathology: attention, consciousness, memory, perception, thought, emotion, aggressive or violent behavior, volition, psychomotor activity, intelligence 4. The classification of Mental Disorders: DSM-V and ICD-11 5. Personality Disorders Lo

  • General Psychology

    The program of the course is aimed to describes the scientific psycology in the context of the philosophy and the physiology of the 1800's.In this frame will come examined in systematic way the history, the theories and the methods of the General Psychology and of the psycology of the personality. Main thematic issues regard: - The history and the historiography of the psycology; - the nomotetic method and the idiografic one; - the epistemology of the psycology of personality; - the clinical method and theories; - The others method of the psychology; - the faculties, the traits and personality; - the phenomenology and cognitivism. The course presents the link between the theoretical and the methodological levels in psychology and investigates the main areas of general psychology, e.g., attention, perception, memory, thinking, communication, language, emotions.


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