Psychology and Sociology

Psychology as a bio-psycho-social science: definition, aims, main theoretical and methodological approaches in psychology. Experimental, developmental, social, clinical and health psychology.

Multidimensional nature of health; models of approach to health: the Biomedical Model and the Biopsychosocial Model; the role of psychology in health.

Stress: definition and characteristics. The biopsychosocial model of stress. Chronic and acute stressful situations. Physiological and psychological responses to stress, coping and coping strategies. Stress health and illness. Stress and hearing loss (deafness, hearing loss and tinnitus).

Motivations and emotions. Emotions, their characteristics and components; Primary or basic emotions and secondary or complex emotions; Emotion regulation and management.

Emotional intelligence, empathy and their characteristics and development; relationship between cognitive, emotional and relational development.

Communication: basic characteristics of interpersonal communication, verbal and non-verbal communication, communication and auditory impairment, hints on pragmatic of human communication

Introduction to sociology as a social science Basic knowledge
Social historian excursus

Functionalism ( A. Comte, E.Durkeim, T. Parsons, R.K.Merton)
Theories of conflict, critical theory (K. Marx, M. Weber, R. Dahrendorf, "Frankfurt School")
Theory of Action (M. Weber, G.M.H. Mead, I. Goffman)
Relational theories (G. Simmel, "Chicago School", N. Elias, G. Bateson, E. Morin)

Recent sociological perspectives

Integrated vision (systemic-relational)

Sociological analysis of health and health organization The new health sociology and the Welfare State Impact of e-health on health work

Social Relations and Communication
Communication and Network Society
Focus: E.Goffman microsociology, communication processes, network-society influence in contemporary culture Communication styles
Effective communication techniques, assertive training The working group
Relational circuits, Climate and culture Leadership
Theories of motivation at work (from F.W.Taylor to the theories of the needs of Maslow, Alderfer and McClelland) Career development
Change and conflict

Origins and significance of Medicine and History of Medicine. Medieval and Renaissance Medicine. Systematic anatomy, animated anatomy, microscopic anatomy.
Enlightenment and public health. The birth of the clinic and its instruments (semeiotics, diagnostics and therapy). The problems of surgery and their resolution: analgesia, anesthesia, asepsis and antisepsis.
XX century: new concepts, instruments and therapies.
The Specialized Institute for the Complete Treatment of Deafness and the first Italian Centre for Acoustic, Phonetic and Labiological Rehabilitation founded in Milan in the early twentieth century.