DISTURBI COMPORTAMENTO ALIMENTAREModule APPLIED TECHNICAL AND DIETETIC SCIENCES
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: AGOSTINO MILLUZZOExpected Learning Outcomes
The student must know the main eating disorders and the respective
diagnostic criteria and clinical characteristics of the subjects with
DCA; must acquire knowledge and skills on the different nutritional
rehabilitation procedures in relation to the type of disorder, the
setting of care and the severity of the state of malnutrition; must be
able to identify early and prevent the risk of refeeding syndrome
Course Structure
Frontal lessons, discussion of clinical cases, and individual research are carried out by students individually or as group work.
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 online, should the conditions require it.
Required Prerequisites
Propaedeticities provided by the curriculum
Attendance of Lessons
Mandatory Attendance
Detailed Course Content
- CLASSIFICATION OF EATING DISORDER.
- THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY EQUIPE IN THE TREATMENT OF EATING DISORDER.
- ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF THE NUTRITIONAL STATE.
- NUTRITION REHABILITATION IN ANOREXIA AND BULIMIA NERVOSA: GENERAL PRINCIPLES, AIMS, CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF UNDERWEIGHT PATIENTS, STRATEGIES AND PROCEDURES OF NUTRITION REHABILITATION (Familiarization Training With Food (TFC), psycho-nutritional rehabilitation, Meal assisted, Artificial Nutrition)
- MALNUTRITION AND REFEEDING SYNDROME
- NUTRITION REHABILITATION OF FEEDING DISORDERS IN INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD.
- NUTRITION REHABILITATION OF BINGE-EATING DISORDER (Familiarization Training With Food (TFC), One Day Treatment, Cognitive-behavioral therapy)
- NUTRITIONAL INTERVENTION IN VARIOUS LEVELS OF CARE: Ambulatory, Semiresidence, Residence, Hospital)
Textbook Information
1. Dietetica e nutrizione. Clinica, terapia e organizzazione. G. Fatati - M.L. Amerio, Il Pensiero Scientifico, edizione 2012.
2. LINEE DI INDIRIZZO NAZIONALI PER LA RIABILITAZIONE NUTRIZIONALE NEI DISTURBI DELL’ALIMENTAZIONE, Ministero della Salute, Direzione generale per l'igiene e la sicurezza degli alimenti e la nutrizione.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLASSIFICATION OF NUTRITION AND EATING DISORDERS. | |
| 2 | Eating disorders prevention | |
| 3 | REVIEW OF THE MAJOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES ON NUTRITIONAL TREATMENT OF EATING DISORDERS. | |
| 4 | MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM IN THE TREATMENT OF EATING DISORDERS | |
| 5 | ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS | |
| 6 | NUTRITIONAL REHABILITATION IN ANOREXIA AND BULIMIA: (General principles, Objectives, clinical characteristics of underweight patients, nutrition rehabilitation strategies and procedures: Food Familiarization Training (TFC), Psychonutritional Rehabilitation, Assisted Meal, Artificial Nutrition) | |
| 7 | MALNUTRITION AND REFEEDING SYNDROME | |
| 8 | NUTRITIONAL REHABILITATION IN CHILDHOOD AND PREADOLESCENT EATING DISORDERS. | |
| 9 | NUTRITIONAL REHABILITATION OF BINGE-EATING DISORDERS: (Psychobiological approach based on TFC, One Day Treatment, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) | |
| 10 | NUTRITIONAL INTERVENTION IN THE VARIOUS LEVELS OF CARE: Outpatient, Semi-residential, Residential, Hospital | |
| 11 | FAMILY ROLE IN NUTRITIONAL REHABILITATION OF DCA |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Oral or written test.
In-progress test
In-progress test
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Nutritional rehabilitation in various care settings