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CODE 66530
ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR M-PSI/04
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
SEMESTER 1° Semester
MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di:
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Acquire basic knowledge of developmental psychology preparatory to understand the psychopathological aspects of eating behavior.

Develop the ability to integrate into team work and participate in multidisciplinary therapeutic projects specific for eating disorders.

TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, interactive lessons, with slides and visual material. The course material will be available for the students.

In case of impediments to the didactic activity in person, the lessons will take place remotely, in synchronous mode.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

  • Affectivity and intelligence
  • Concept of personality
  • Concept of object relationship
  •      Attachment styles
  • Psychic development of the child
  • The stages of the child's psychic development
  •      Intrauterine life and birth
  •      Infant stage
  •      Early childhood
  •      Childhood
  • The evolution of eating behavior in childhood
  • Puberty
  • Psychic development of the adolescent:
  •      Autonomy
  •      Sexual identity
  •      The moral conscience
  •      The freedom to choose
  •      Well differntiated autonomous functions of the Ego
  • The evolution of eating behavior in adolescence
  • Body diagram – Body image
  • Influence of social media on body image
  • Dysmorphophobias
  • DSM-5: Eating and nutrition disorders
  • Eating disorders
  • Anorexia Nervosa:
  •      DSM-5  Classification
  •      Clinical picture
  •      Multidisciplinary treatment
  • Bulimia Nervosa:
  •      DSM-5  Classification
  •      Clinical picture
  •      Multidisciplinary treatment
  • BED:
  •      DSM-5  Classification
  •      Clinical picture
  •      Multidisciplinary treatment
  • Obesity: Psychology and Psychopathology
  •      Developmental obesity
  •      Reactive obesity
  •      Models of prevention
  •      Treatment models
  • The characteristics of the relationship with patients with eating disorders
  • Eating behaviour in adulthood

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

M.Bellomo – I  disturbi del Comportamento Alimentare – in Manuale di Psichiatria Giberti-Rossi, VI Ed., capitolo 11, Piccin, Padona, 2007

 

  • American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Fifth Edition (DSM-5) Washington, 2013
  • Psicologia Medica, Pierre-B. Schneider, Feltrinelli
  • Material provided by the teacher
  • Self-produced slides sent to students on the dedicated email address

 

Suggested further material:

M.Baldassarre – Disturbi alimentari e psicopatologia – Borla, 200

H. Bruch – Patologia del comportamento alimentare – Feltrinelli, Ed. 2000

O. Bellini, M.Scarnecchia – Il lavoro della cura con la paziente anoressica – FrancoAngeli, 2002

A.Pasetti, M. Trillo – Dipendenza e affrancamento in anoressia e bulimia – FrancoAngeli, 2004

C.L. Cazzullo, M.Clerici – Trattamento integrato dei disturbi alimentari – Biblioteca Masson, 2000

 

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MANUELA ALBERTELLI

CECILIA SERENA PACE

FRANCESCA SIBILLA

FRANCESCA TAGLIOTTI

LUCIA VALENTINI

MARINA BELLOMO (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

29/09/2020

Class schedule

L'orario di tutti gli insegnamenti è consultabile all'indirizzo EasyAcademy.

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The assessment takes place through the final exam, which aims to ensure the student's effective acquisition of the expected learning outcomes.

FURTHER INFORMATION

The ability to deal with the requested topics in a transversal and critical manner will contribute to the final grade expressed in 30th.                                      

Accuracy, clarity, synthesis, fluidity of presentation.              

Adoption of appropriate terminology.