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General Psychology - BIELLA

MS0023

Course
General Psychology - BIELLA
Code
MS0023
Academic Year
2023/2024
Curriculum Year
2023/2024
Degree Programme
NURSING
Curriculum
000 - CORSO GENERICO
Course coordinator
Lecturers
Credits
2
Lecture Hours
24
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-PSI/01 - General Psychology
Course Type
Single-subject learning activity
Course Delivery
OBB - Obbligatoria
Year
1
Teaching period
Secondo Semestre
Campus
BIELLA
Teaching language
Italian
Course Contents
- Psychic functions and their alterations
- Communication and Speech
- Developmental theories of personality and aging
- Stress and psychosomatics
- Psychology applied to patiens with fatal conditions or surgical illness
- Psychology of helping relationships
- Team working and burnout
Reference Texts
Nicolino Rossi
1) PSICOLOGIA CLINICA PER LE
PROFESSIONI SANITARIE
Società editrice “il Mulino” - Bologna – 2004
2) Eugenio Torre
LEZIONI DI PSICHIATRIA
E PSICOLOGIA CLINICA
Società editrice “Aracne” – 2010
Learning Outcomes
1) Knowledge of basic principles of general psychology
2) Acquisition of psychological skills that are useful in managing the relationship with patients
3) Acquisition of skills concernig helping professions
4) Acquisition of psychological skills about team working that are useful in copying to work-related stress in health professions
Prerequisites
knowledge of Italian language
Teaching Methods
frontal lesson
use of slides
Additional Information
None
Assessment Methods
Multiple choice test
Oral examination
Detailed Syllabus
1) General psychology, clinical psychology; psychological experiment; psychometry
2) Psychic functions and their alterations
3) Leraning and intellgence
4) Speech and communication
5) Theories of personality
6)Aging
7) Brief description of mental disorders
8) Stress and psychosomatics
9) Acute and chronic pain
10) Placebo effect and psyhotherapies
11) Psychology applied to organic diseases:
- patient with a fatal condition
- hospitalized patient
- patient with a surgical illness
12) helping relationsips
13) team working
14) burnout
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