PSYCHOPATHOLOGY - 64025

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ID:
64025
Dettaglio:
SSD: Clinical Psychology Duration: 72 CFU: 12
Located in:
BERGAMO
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CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY - 64-270/PSICOLOGIA CLINICA Year: 2
Year:
2025

Overview

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (16/02/2026 - 29/05/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives

a) to develop advanced clinical skills for assessing and formulating with individuals, couples and families; b) to apply this knowledge to clinical situations in a critical and reflexive way; c) to critically appraise scientific evidence applied to the clinical field; d) to enhance the understanding of ethical issues relating to clinical practice with individual/s, families, institutions, including consideration of the impact of our own personal and professional issues on the work and issues of culture, power and differences; e) to formulate a systemic assessment of presenting issues, including the construction of the problem(s), the history of the presenting problem and resources, in relation to family relationships, family events, external contexts and wider social discourses and factors.

Course Prerequisites

Background knowledge in clinical and psychodynamic psychology


Teaching Methods

The module will be developed through a variety of dialogical methods: lectures (but with particular attention to exchange and dialogue with students), group work on clinical material, practical exercises, roleplays and laboratories. During the lessons, students will be able to make proposals for in-depth reflection or debate.

Also seminars with qualified researchers and professionals will be promoted during the course to provide students with a broad and comprehensive understanding of the field.


Assessment Methods

The examination consists of a written exam (one hour and 10 minutes). The exam consists of three open questions, each with a score from 0 to 11. Evaluation criteria: relevance of the answer to the question, ability of synthesis, language property and expository clarity and in-depth critical analysis.

The results are made public on the Sportello Internet in the usual way, as indicated before the exam.


Contents

This course will critically discuss the main interpretations of psychopathologies offered by clinical psychology theories. Clinical cases discussion will illustrate each of these psychopathologies with an emphasis on explicative diagnosis beyond the descriptive one. The module critically compares the different conceptions of psychopathology and their wide-ranging implications for interventions and society at large. It emphasizes relational, contextual social determinants of mental health (e.g.violence, discrimination, poverty, exclusion, climate change..) which are often overlooked from mainstream mental health practice. This often leads to an over-diagnosis and an over-reliance on medicalization of human distress. To address these limitations, the module will present some innovative and alternative approaches to diagnosis, formulation and intervention in psychopathology.

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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY