Introduction to Psychiatric Rehabilitation
A.Y. 2025/2026
Learning objectives
- to study the main features of the general mechanisms of cultural processes as an historical-cultural interpretative key to help the learning of the concepts of normality, health, illness, disability, handicap and the historical evolution of assistance, care and rehabilitation;
-Improve the knowledge of the theoretical principles underlying psychiatric rehabilitation and the methods of the rehabilitation interventions; study the mechanism of the evolution and characteristics of the theory and conceptual models of psychiatric rehabilitation;
- to take a deeper look of the ethical and historical aspects of medicine with a particular interest in psychiatric rehabilitation.
-Improve the knowledge of the theoretical principles underlying psychiatric rehabilitation and the methods of the rehabilitation interventions; study the mechanism of the evolution and characteristics of the theory and conceptual models of psychiatric rehabilitation;
- to take a deeper look of the ethical and historical aspects of medicine with a particular interest in psychiatric rehabilitation.
Expected learning outcomes
To achieve a good historical knowledge about the development of psychiatry as a specific discipline, including the evolution of the main theoretical models and the work done by the rehabilitation technicians.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Prerequisites for admission
No prior knowledge required
Assessment methods and Criteria
Assessment of the learning will take place through a oral /written test.
The evaluation criteria used will be the ability to list and organize the acquired knowledges as well as their application for the resolution of short questions. The evaluation of the teaching will be expressed in 30th and will be the result of the weighted average of the votes acquired in each module of the teaching. Ongoing written tests may be planned towards the end of the course. The results of the tests will be communicated to the students through online verbalization system of university.
The evaluation criteria used will be the ability to list and organize the acquired knowledges as well as their application for the resolution of short questions. The evaluation of the teaching will be expressed in 30th and will be the result of the weighted average of the votes acquired in each module of the teaching. Ongoing written tests may be planned towards the end of the course. The results of the tests will be communicated to the students through online verbalization system of university.
Psychiatry
Course syllabus
Module: Introduction to psychiatry
Introduction to the aims of the degree course as a whole and in the specific case of rehabilitation work in psychiatry. Psychiatry as the science of man and his existence: refer to culture, history, the person. Focus on tools and techniques in rehabilitation
Module: Psychiatry history.
Mental Health Management in the Pre-Contemporary Era; Psychiatry in the Contemporary Age I Part (1789-1945) Psychiatry in the Contemporary Age II Part (1945-); Colonial Psychiatry; Psychiatry in the Age of Globalization;
Module: Psychiatric rehabilitation history.
Recognition and analysis of the elements of psychiatric rehabilitation, historically isomorphic to the different conceptions of mental illness occurred over time. Analysis of persistent or recurrent themes, not strictly related, as in the case of physical medicine, to the cultural temperaries of a specific period. Identify, as persistent strands of the concept of mental illness, widely reflected in the mode of rehabilitation, the regulation of the physical distance of patients from the society to which they belong, the adjustment of the affections, the adjustment of living and doing. Analysis of some historical examples (the heterofamilial entrustment of Geel, the"public stem"of the Republic of Venice, the experience of esquirol and pinel around the French Revolution, Connolly's experience in Britain, etc.). Legislative evolution of the organisation of mental health care and rehabilitation services in Europe and Italy, with the transition between the laws of 1904 and 1978; parallel analysis of the birth of the therapeutic community in Europe after the Second World War and its implementation in Italy in the 80's. Exploring the evolution towards more evolved models ("l'abitare per la cura") and the value that the great phenomenological determinants of the relationship (space, time, objects, body) have in this area. An excursus on how the contemporary organization of services, especially in Lombardy, reflects these conceptual themes.
Module: Psychopathological elements
The basic concepts of descriptive psychopathology. Normal health and mental illness.
Psychic functions: a) Consciousness and disturbances of consciousness b) Intelligence and disturbances of intellectual functions c) Attention, concentration, orientation and related disorders d) Memory and its disorders e) Perception f) Thought g) Language and speech h) temperament and mood i) Physiological and pathological anxiety l) volition, instinctuality, aggressiveness m) The concept of personality.
Introduction to the aims of the degree course as a whole and in the specific case of rehabilitation work in psychiatry. Psychiatry as the science of man and his existence: refer to culture, history, the person. Focus on tools and techniques in rehabilitation
Module: Psychiatry history.
Mental Health Management in the Pre-Contemporary Era; Psychiatry in the Contemporary Age I Part (1789-1945) Psychiatry in the Contemporary Age II Part (1945-); Colonial Psychiatry; Psychiatry in the Age of Globalization;
Module: Psychiatric rehabilitation history.
Recognition and analysis of the elements of psychiatric rehabilitation, historically isomorphic to the different conceptions of mental illness occurred over time. Analysis of persistent or recurrent themes, not strictly related, as in the case of physical medicine, to the cultural temperaries of a specific period. Identify, as persistent strands of the concept of mental illness, widely reflected in the mode of rehabilitation, the regulation of the physical distance of patients from the society to which they belong, the adjustment of the affections, the adjustment of living and doing. Analysis of some historical examples (the heterofamilial entrustment of Geel, the"public stem"of the Republic of Venice, the experience of esquirol and pinel around the French Revolution, Connolly's experience in Britain, etc.). Legislative evolution of the organisation of mental health care and rehabilitation services in Europe and Italy, with the transition between the laws of 1904 and 1978; parallel analysis of the birth of the therapeutic community in Europe after the Second World War and its implementation in Italy in the 80's. Exploring the evolution towards more evolved models ("l'abitare per la cura") and the value that the great phenomenological determinants of the relationship (space, time, objects, body) have in this area. An excursus on how the contemporary organization of services, especially in Lombardy, reflects these conceptual themes.
Module: Psychopathological elements
The basic concepts of descriptive psychopathology. Normal health and mental illness.
Psychic functions: a) Consciousness and disturbances of consciousness b) Intelligence and disturbances of intellectual functions c) Attention, concentration, orientation and related disorders d) Memory and its disorders e) Perception f) Thought g) Language and speech h) temperament and mood i) Physiological and pathological anxiety l) volition, instinctuality, aggressiveness m) The concept of personality.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Teaching Resources
Ba G "Strumenti e tecniche della Riabilitazione psichiatrica", FrancoAngeli Ed
Elementi di psicopatologia
Rasore E.: Elementi di semeiotica. In: Giberti - Rossi (a cura di), Manuale di psichiatria, VI ed., Piccin, Padova, 2009.
Garbarini M.: Psicopatologia generale. In: Invernizzi G. (a cura di), Manuale di psichiatria e psicologia clinica, IV ed., McGraw Hill, Milano, 2012.
Storia della psichiatria e storia della riabilitazione psichiatrica
Vita A., L. Dell'Osso, A. Mucci "Manuale di Clinica e riabilitazione psichiatrica " Eds G. fioriti 2019 (cap 1 e cap 41)
Elementi di psicopatologia
Rasore E.: Elementi di semeiotica. In: Giberti - Rossi (a cura di), Manuale di psichiatria, VI ed., Piccin, Padova, 2009.
Garbarini M.: Psicopatologia generale. In: Invernizzi G. (a cura di), Manuale di psichiatria e psicologia clinica, IV ed., McGraw Hill, Milano, 2012.
Storia della psichiatria e storia della riabilitazione psichiatrica
Vita A., L. Dell'Osso, A. Mucci "Manuale di Clinica e riabilitazione psichiatrica " Eds G. fioriti 2019 (cap 1 e cap 41)
Theories and science of education and social education
Course syllabus
- Pedagogy and education from a phenomenological-hermeneutic perspective
- Constitutive features of education
- Narrative and autobiographical writing in the construction of pedagogical knowledge
- Pedagogy and educational sciences
- Educational materiality and its meaning in various intervention settings
- Educational work as the design and setup of experiences
- Contexts and types of educator intervention in mental health
- Experiences and meaning of residential-based educational/rehabilitative interventions
- Work with families, social networks, and occupational contexts in mental health educational/rehabilitative intervention
- Constitutive features of education
- Narrative and autobiographical writing in the construction of pedagogical knowledge
- Pedagogy and educational sciences
- Educational materiality and its meaning in various intervention settings
- Educational work as the design and setup of experiences
- Contexts and types of educator intervention in mental health
- Experiences and meaning of residential-based educational/rehabilitative interventions
- Work with families, social networks, and occupational contexts in mental health educational/rehabilitative intervention
Teaching methods
The course will be held in person. Teaching methodologies will include interactive activities, based on the analysis of bibliographic sources, narrative texts, docufilms, and completion of worksheets. Thanks to these activities, students will be able to better understand the meaning and methods of educational action within psychiatric rehabilitation.
Teaching Resources
- Charmet, G., Savuto, G., Padre quotidiano, Bollati Boringhieri, Milano, 2001, pp. 15-26; 70-88.
- Saraceno, B., La fine dell'intrattenimento, Etas, Milano, 1995, Cap. 5.
- Zannini L., L'educazione del paziente. Per una consapevolezza pedagogica dei professionisti della cura, Cortina, Milano, 2023, Cap. 1: pp. 26-33, 40-48; Cap. 3: pp. 164-179.
- Saraceno, B., La fine dell'intrattenimento, Etas, Milano, 1995, Cap. 5.
- Zannini L., L'educazione del paziente. Per una consapevolezza pedagogica dei professionisti della cura, Cortina, Milano, 2023, Cap. 1: pp. 26-33, 40-48; Cap. 3: pp. 164-179.
Psychiatry
MED/25 - PSYCHIATRY - University credits: 4
Lessons: 40 hours
Shifts:
Theories and science of education and social education
M-PED/01 - PEDAGOGY, THEORIES OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EDUCATION - University credits: 1
Lessons: 10 hours
Professor:
Daniele Katia
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Daniele Katia