Social and clinical psycology

Module Clinical and psychopathological Psychology

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).

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.

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