Unit ELEMENTS OF MEDICINE FOR HOSPITAL PSYCHOLOGY
- Course
- Assessment of individual functioning in clinical and health psychology
- Study-unit Code
- A001276
- Curriculum
- Curriculum ii
- Teacher
- Giacomo Pucci
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- MED/09
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Framework of the psychological aspects related to hospitalization. Main clinical pictures that condition hospitalization in the medical and surgical area. Personal and psychological impact linked to the specific pathways of diagnosis and treatment of the main pathologies treated in the hospital, their potential impact on the quality of life level, the relational and behavioral repercussions, with particular reference to the family and caregiver.
- Reference texts
- Psicologi in ospedale - Percorsi operativi per la cura globale di persone. Edizioni Franco Angeli
- Educational objectives
- Promotion of knowledge of the elements of medicine useful for the purpose of better framing the problems and needs referable to patients admitted to hospital and long-term care facilities where continuous healthcare is provided.
Personal and psychological impact linked to the specific pathways of diagnosis and treatment of the main pathologies treated in the hospital, their potential impact on the quality of life level, the relational and behavioral repercussions, with particular reference to the family and caregiver. - Prerequisites
- Elements of clinical psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry
- Teaching methods
- frontal lessons
- Other information
- For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or DSA visit the page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
- Learning verification modality
- Oral interview
- Extended program
- 1. cardiovascular diseases
2. neurovascular diseases
3. neurodegenerative diseases
4. oncological pathologies
5. Surgical pathologies
6. Outcomes of multiple traumatisms
7. Infectious diseases
8. Metabolic disorders (diabetes mellitus, obesity)
9. Pathologies of genetic nature
10. Pathology of the reproductive sphere