Psychotherapy

- Models of interpretation of mental illness in use and forms of therapy derived from them: Classical psychiatric (descriptive nosographic): the therapy is constituted starting from the probability that a certain type of standardized treatment is effective (produces symptomatic changes) for that type of standardized descriptive diagnosis (based on controlled efficacy studies); Psychodynamic psychiatric (functional dimensional): the therapy is constituted starting from the identification of specific problems (which will become the "foci" of the treatment)
- Model of bio-psycho-social mental functioning
- Motivational systems and the model of change
- Interview technique as a path of change.
Foulkes and Lewin group concept
-Function of the groups
-Theoretical and methodological bases of group psychotherapy
-Specific therapeutic factors common to all forms of group therapy
-Group therapy, relational and intersubjective experiences
-Main theoretical orientations and models of group psychotherapy
-Supportive and expressive-interpretative group interventions
-Systemic familial therapy - Cognitive behavioral psychotherapy
-Group psychoanalytic psychotherapy - Transnational analysis by E. Berne
-Mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT)
-References to other intervention techniques
-Treatment research and results
-Focus: group therapy and promotion of well-being in the social context of care services and personal assistance.

- Psychotherapy vs counseling and help relationship
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Skill Training
- Multimodal Behavior Therapy: group applications
- Group hypnotherapy
- Cognitive-behavioral principles in community rehabilitation groups.

Introduction to psychoeducational cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy
- Integrate friends and family into the treatment: the resource group
- Evaluation of the problems and objectives of the user and the resource group
- Communication skills
- Problem solving: structured method of solving problems and achieving objectives
- Psychoeducation on the disorder and on change
- Psychotic symptoms
- Bipolar Affective Disorder
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Crisis management
- Find alternatives to the use of alcohol and drugs to solve problems
- Food disorders
- Learn to deal with unpleasant thoughts and voices
- Sleep well at night
- Make friends
- Increase rewarding activities
- Face anger and frustration

The comparison among different epistemological models and the specificity of the techniques used in Psychiatric Rehabilitation starting from mental disability assessment and potential of the individual, and his/her needs within the treatment.
-Cognitive-behavioral Psychotherapy and Neurosciences: Supporting evidences. Benefits, limits and future perspectives.
-Cognitive psychopathology: Neuropsychological deficits in psychiatric diseases and Cognitive Remediation Therapy.
-Social Skills training for the treatment of psychotic disorders and schizophrenia.