Psicologia clinica avanzata nei clinical settings
A.Y. 2025/2026
Learning objectives
The teaching aims to provide the student with the knowledge and conceptual tools necessary for the clinical psychologist to understand the complexity of working in various clinical contexts (private/public/healthcare; individual/group). Particular attention will be given to interventions in special and specific contexts (e.g., home, penal area). Furthermore, the implications/connections with professional ethics and regulatory domains influencing clinical action will be discussed.
Expected learning outcomes
Specifically, at the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Describe the characteristics of clinical psychological intervention with reference to aspects related to the therapist, the patient, the relationship, and the setting.
- Illustrate the main complexities of clinical work in the healthcare context, also referring to specific areas (home; penal area; counseling center).
- Explain the specificities of clinical psychological action in individual and group contexts, as well as in the field of primary prevention.
- Describe the deontological and regulatory implications characterizing the different action contexts of the clinical psychologist.
- Describe the characteristics of clinical psychological intervention with reference to aspects related to the therapist, the patient, the relationship, and the setting.
- Illustrate the main complexities of clinical work in the healthcare context, also referring to specific areas (home; penal area; counseling center).
- Explain the specificities of clinical psychological action in individual and group contexts, as well as in the field of primary prevention.
- Describe the deontological and regulatory implications characterizing the different action contexts of the clinical psychologist.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Course syllabus
The teaching program includes the presentation and discussion of the following topics:
- The setting: definition, history, and implications in clinical practice.
- Mind-body interaction-integration.
- The healthcare context, intervention implementation, and setting-specificities.
- Deontological aspects and legal devices in the clinical psychological context: the example of primary care centers.
- Group and setting.
- Clinical psychology without a patient: proactive medicine and psychology of prevention.
- Clinical setting and therapeutic relationship: extraordinary declinations.
- Patient's home and the example of palliative care.
Intervention in the penitentiary area and ensuring the setting's guarantee.
- The setting: definition, history, and implications in clinical practice.
- Mind-body interaction-integration.
- The healthcare context, intervention implementation, and setting-specificities.
- Deontological aspects and legal devices in the clinical psychological context: the example of primary care centers.
- Group and setting.
- Clinical psychology without a patient: proactive medicine and psychology of prevention.
- Clinical setting and therapeutic relationship: extraordinary declinations.
- Patient's home and the example of palliative care.
Intervention in the penitentiary area and ensuring the setting's guarantee.
Prerequisites for admission
No prior knowledge is required.
Teaching methods
The teachers will use lectures, simulations and video-clips, group work and case analyses.
Teaching material will be available on Ariel website.
Teaching material will be available on Ariel website.
Teaching Resources
Loriedo C. e Acri F. (2009) Il setting in psicoterapia. Lo scenario dell'incontro terapeutico nei differenti modelli clinici di intervento. Ed Franco Angeli
- Codice Deontologico degli Psicologi Italiani
- Bressi C e Invernizzi G. (2017) Psichiatria e psicologia clinica (Parte V Psicologia Clinica). Ed Mc Graw Hill.
- Specific articles will also be recommended.
- Codice Deontologico degli Psicologi Italiani
- Bressi C e Invernizzi G. (2017) Psichiatria e psicologia clinica (Parte V Psicologia Clinica). Ed Mc Graw Hill.
- Specific articles will also be recommended.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Learning will be assessed through a written test containing 25 closed-ended multiple-choice answers (2 points each) and 2 open-ended answers (3 points each). The maximum score will be 31/30, which is equivalent to 30 cum laude. In closed questions, knowledge will be assessed; in open questions, the ability to discursively organize knowledge and critical reasoning skills must also be assessed.
M-PSI/08 - CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY - University credits: 7
Lessons: 42 hours
Professor:
Vegni Elena Anna Maria
Professor(s)