Social and clinical psycologyModule Clinical and psychopathological Psychology
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Giovanni BELLUARDODetailed Course Content
Psychotherapeutic approaches will be described according to the main psychopathological problems: Anxiety, schizophrenia spectrum, bipolar, depressive, eating, personality, substance use and new addictions disorders, Sexual dysfunction and gender dysphoria.
Special attention will be paid to BES (Special Educational Needs).
Textbook Information
1) AA.VV. (2014), DSM5, Manuale diagnostico e statistico dei disturbi mentali, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, pp.5-31)
2) BELLUARDO G., et. AL., (2018), “Bisogni Educativi Speciali e insegnanti: quali emozioni?”, in Psicologia e scuola, Giunti, n. 56,
3) CASTONGUAY, L. G., OLTMANNS, T. (a cura di), (2016), Psicologia clinica e psicopatologia, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, capitoli 7, 9, 13)
4) SANAVIO E., CORNOLDI, C., (2019), Terza edizione aggiornata al DSM-5, Psicologia clinica, il Mulino, Bologna, pp.9-220, 261-293.
Learning Assessment
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Multiple choice questions
The hallucination is
° A recurring and intrusive thought, impulse or image that the person recognizes as their own while recognizing its extraneousness and unreasonableness
°A sensorial perception that has the compelling sense of objective reality but which manifests itself in the absence of effective external stimulation
° Unjustified, repeated, disproportionate and stereotyped behaviour
° A false belief that is based on erroneous inferences regarding external reality
Open questions
° Describe anxiety disorders