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DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

CODE 66530
ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023
CREDITS
  • 1 cfu during the 3nd year of 9288 DIETISTICA(L/SNT3) - GENOVA
  • SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR M-PSI/04
    LANGUAGE Italian
    TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
  • SEMESTER 1° Semester
    MODULES This unit is a module of:
    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

    All class schedules are posted on the EasyAcademy portal.

    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.