Rehabilitation Techniques

A.Y. 2025/2026
9
Max ECTS
90
Overall hours
SSD
L-ART/05 MED/48
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
Undefined
Expected learning outcomes
Undefined
Single course

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Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Prerequisites for admission
Students must have passed psychiatry 1
Assessment methods and Criteria
Assessment of the learning will take place through an oral /written test, including multiple choice questions.
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. The results of the tests will be communicated to the students through online verbalization system of University.
Scienze infermieristiche e tecniche neuro-psichiatriche e riabilitative
Course syllabus
· Work law: regulatory and legal aspects of the right to work for people with disabilities, employer obligations in the field of supported employment;
· Social and work inclusion: forms of protection for people with disabilities, job placement through supported employment;
· Labour policies: national and local job placement programs for people with disabilities;
· Working in mental health: job placement models for people with mental disabilities;
· The hospital work hub.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Teaching Resources
Ba G, Strumenti e tecniche della Riabilitazione psichiatrica, FrancoAngeli Eds. 2003
Cattaneo P, La canzone come esperienza relazionale, educativa, terapeutica, Ed. Ricordi, Milano, 2009. Seconda edizione 2010
Borsani S., Onofrio S. (2019). La musicoterapia. In Vita, A. et al. Manuale di clinica e riabilitazione psichiatrica. Vol. 2: Riabilitazione psichiatrica (pp. 731-738). Fioriti, Roma
(a integrazione) Lavecchia B. et al (2003). La musicoterapia. In Ba G. Strumenti e tecniche di riabilitazione psichiatrica e psicosociale (pp. 214-267). Franco Angeli Ed., Milano
Vita A., Dell'Osso L., Mucci A. (a cura di), Manuale di clinica e riabilitazione psichiatrica - vol 2, Giovanni Fioriti Editore, 2019
Jean-Claude Coste (a cura di Pier Luigi Baldi), La psicomotricità, La Nuova Italia, 1999.
Legge 12 marzo 1999, n.68 - Norme per il diritto al lavoro delle persone con disabilità.
Morganti C., Chinelli A., Cardullo A., Lamperti M., Lanzo F., Prezioso M., Scanu S., Porcellana M., Percudani M. (2024), L'esperienza del Gruppo Dipartimentale Lavoro Niguarda: studio prospettico descrittivo, Psichiatria Oggi XXXVII, 1, 2024, Sip-LO.
Material provided by teachers (slides, handouts)
Discipline dello spettacolo
Course syllabus
Melodic experience as rehabilitative technique
· The components of musical language (communicational aspects);
· Melody as distinctive phonological trait;
· Melody and tensiodistensional dynamics;
· Melodic expressiveness as a sign/symptom;
· The construction of the sound relationship through the melodic experience (methodological aspects);
· The melodic experience as rehabilitative mode;
· Intervention protocols in psychiatric rehabilitation.

Music therapy
· Basic principles of the musical sound element: notes on the physics of sound and the physiology of auditory perception;
· Notes on musical theory: rhythm, melody and harmony;
· The role of sound in intrauterine life, in psychic development, in language learning and in the maturation of relational skills;
· Definition of music therapy, main intervention models and training paths;
· Evidence on the effectiveness of music therapy;
· Practical experiences in the classroom;

Dance-movement-therapy
· Theory and practice of the main methodological assumptions;
· Clinical applications with psychiatric users

Theoretical aspects of art therapy
· Basic elements of the historical framework and the methodology of art therapy;
· Materials, settings, construction of projects.

Teatrotherapy and dramatherapy
· Theoretical principles and application models;
· Psychopathology of expression;
· The body in theatre;
· The game of the mask and other techniques;
· Theatrical techniques in psychic discomfort;
· Psychodrama and dramatization.
Psychomotor techniques
· Psychomotricity: historical introduction and the discipline in education and rehabilitation;
· Psychomotor techniques: the use of body language in the therapeutic relationship;
· Psychomotor techniques: the use of the space, the time and objects in the therapeutic relationship;
· Psychomotor techniques: the play as a tool for educational and rehabilitative practice.

Animal Assisted Interventions
· History of pet therapy and foundations of the human-animal relationship;
· Regulatory framework, National Guidelines for Animal Assisted Interventions;
· Characteristics of involvement of animals involved in IAA;
· Roles and responsibilities of the professional figures involved in the multidisciplinary team;
· The types of IAA (AAA, EAA, TAA) differences, settings and objectives;
· Methods, planning phases and tools for monitoring and collecting the effectiveness of interventions;
· Presentation of IAA projects with the dog, IAA project with the dog and young psychiatric users as an operational modality in psychiatric rehabilitation;
· Experiential activities of interaction and relationship with the dog.
Horticoltural therapy
· Introduction to horticoltural therapy and key points analysis;
· The benefits it can bring in mental disability and differences from other occupational therapies;
· Methodology: how to do an horticolturaltherapy project.

Work placements
· Work law: regulatory and legal aspects of the right to work for people with disabilities, employer obligations in the field of supported employment;
· Social and work inclusion: forms of protection for people with disabilities, job placement through supported employment;
· Labour policies: national and local job placement programs for people with disabilities;
· Working in mental health: job placement models for people with mental disabilities;
· The hospital work hub.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Teaching Resources
Ba G, Strumenti e tecniche della Riabilitazione psichiatrica, FrancoAngeli Eds. 2003
Cattaneo P, La canzone come esperienza relazionale, educativa, terapeutica, Ed. Ricordi, Milano, 2009. Seconda edizione 2010
Borsani S., Onofrio S. (2019). La musicoterapia. In Vita, A. et al. Manuale di clinica e riabilitazione psichiatrica. Vol. 2: Riabilitazione psichiatrica (pp. 731-738). Fioriti, Roma
(a integrazione) Lavecchia B. et al (2003). La musicoterapia. In Ba G. Strumenti e tecniche di riabilitazione psichiatrica e psicosociale (pp. 214-267). Franco Angeli Ed., Milano
Vita A., Dell'Osso L., Mucci A. (a cura di), Manuale di clinica e riabilitazione psichiatrica - vol 2, Giovanni Fioriti Editore, 2019
Jean-Claude Coste (a cura di Pier Luigi Baldi), La psicomotricità, La Nuova Italia, 1999.
Legge 12 marzo 1999, n.68 - Norme per il diritto al lavoro delle persone con disabilità.
Morganti C., Chinelli A., Cardullo A., Lamperti M., Lanzo F., Prezioso M., Scanu S., Porcellana M., Percudani M. (2024), L'esperienza del Gruppo Dipartimentale Lavoro Niguarda: studio prospettico descrittivo, Psichiatria Oggi XXXVII, 1, 2024, Sip-LO.
Material provided by teachers (slides, handouts)
Discipline dello spettacolo
L-ART/05 - PERFORMING ARTS - University credits: 1
Lessons: 10 hours
Scienze infermieristiche e tecniche neuro-psichiatriche e riabilitative
MED/48 - NURSING IN NEUROPSYCHIATRY AND REHABILITATION - University credits: 8
Lessons: 80 hours