AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Knowing role and meaning of cultural factors in the genesis and manifestation of mental illness and their influence in the development of therapeutic processes. Acquiring specific rehabilitation skills for prevention and functional recovery in multi-ethnic contexts, taking into account cultural and personal and collective history in the use of therapeutic methodologies and acquiring appropriate techniques and relational approaches. Acquiring general notions on the phenomenology of aging in its individual and social aspects and on the main characteristic pathologies of the elderly. Acquiring knowledge and skills on specific individual and/or group rehabilitation planning projects and operational skills in different contexts in relation to the repercussions of the psychogeriatric disorder on the individual, the family and society

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Knowing role and meaning of cultural factors in the genesis and manifestation of mental illness and their influence in the development of therapeutic processes. Acquiring specific rehabilitation skills for prevention and functional recovery in multi-ethnic contexts, taking into account cultural and personal and collective history in the use of therapeutic methodologies and acquiring appropriate techniques and relational approaches. Acquiring general notions on the phenomenology of aging in its individual and social aspects and on the main characteristic pathologies of the elderly. Acquiring knowledge and skills on specific individual and/or group rehabilitation planning projects and operational skills in different contexts in relation to the repercussions of the psychogeriatric disorder on the individual, the family and society

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal teaching

Any Student with documented Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), or with any special needs, shall reach out to the Lecturer(s) and to the dedicated SLD Representative in the Department before class begins, in order to liase and arrange the specific teaching methods and ensure proper achievement of the learning aims and outcomes.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Development of ethno-psychiatric thought; How culture is defined; Tradition healthcare systems; Cultural psychology; Determinants of Health; Culture and treatment process; Migration;  Nosography of cultural bound pathologies according to modern classification systems; Human Mobility and Migrations; Ethno-psychiatric techniques.
 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

In English:

Ernesto De Martino, "The Land of Remorse: A Study of Southern Italian Tarantism", Free Assn Books; 2005

Fanon F. "The wretched of the Earth", Modern Classics, 2001

Tobie Nathan and Isabelle Stangers, "Doctors and healers", Polity, 2018

In Italian:

Beneduce R., Breve dizionario di etnopsichiatria. Roma: Carocci editore, 2008.

Coppo P., Etnopsichiatria- un manuale per capire, un saggio per riflettere. Milano: Il Saggiatore,1996.

Coppo P., Tra psiche e culture- elementi di etnopsichiatria, Torino: Bollati Borlinghieri editore, 2003.

Ernesto De Martino, "La terra del rimorso", NET ed., Milano, 2002

Fanon F., I dannati della terra, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino, 1967.

Nathan T, Stengers I, "Medici e stregono", Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 1996

Sayad A., La doppia assenza- dalle illusioni dell’emigrato alla sofferenza dell’immigrato. Milano: Raffaele Cortina editore, 2002.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

I semester

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral examination

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The assessment of the acquisition of ethno-psychiatric skills will be done exclusively by oral examination with open questions