Unit BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES AND SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY

Course
School of dental medicine
Study-unit Code
GP003670
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Nicola Falocci
CFU
12
Course Regulation
Coorte 2025
Offered
2025/26
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa integrata

DIDACTICS AND SPECIAL EDUCATION

Code GP003681
CFU 2
Teacher Moira Sannipoli
Teachers
  • Moira Sannipoli
Hours
  • 24 ore - Moira Sannipoli
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area C_04 formazione interdisciplinare
Sector M-PED/03
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction Italian language
Contents Pragmatic dental knowledge, which often is reduced to a surgical practice, when facing the world of children, needs a deep comprehension of those childhood behaviors in order to get the best collaboration to achieve suitable dental treatment. Great importance is given to a proper way of receiving parents in the operative unit in order to know possible socio-educational criticalities, and styles of life, therefore making it easier to show prevention strategies. It is necessary to take care of several educational aspects such as relationship with parents, health education, correct styles of life and food habits. Reflections are very meaningful on the politics of welfare for a proper integration among area-heathcare-social policy- educational policy.
Reference texts Scardicchio, A. C., Curare, guardare: Espistemologia ed estetica dello sguardo in Medicina. FrancoAngeli Milano 2019.
Educational objectives Learning the most important indicators, in Special Teaching.
Knowing applicatory contexts of the Special Didactics: the programming curricular (in his phases) and the study of appropriate methodologies.
Prerequisites Nothing
Teaching methods The course is made up of:
- Classes (compulsory) on all themes of the course
- workshops and practice for those students who attend in order to make a socio-educational project.
Other information Attendance is not compulsory but advisable.
Learning verification modality The test, which is oral and lasts about 15/20 minutes, is aimed at checking the knowledge students have acquired during the course, the ability to elaborate and internalize the contents, the ability to communicate and use the proper vocabulary.
Extended program The few clinical criticalities in managing the odontostomatological illnesses of childhood-adolescence have some aspects which involve the experiential and emotional side of children. To deal in an effective way with these aspects you need specific pedagogical and psychological competences. The difficulty in managing a number of patients in evolutionary age, very young or with special needs, represents a further and more difficult step in the ordinary clinical practice. The Ministero della Salute, through new guidelines, gives great importance to these difficulties, in terms of adopting precocious and well-planned strategies to prevent oral illnesses.
In other words, pragmatic dental knowledge, which often is reduced to a surgical practice, when facing the world of children, needs a deep comprehension of those childhood behaviors in order to get the best collaboration to achieve suitable dental treatment.
Great importance is given to a proper way of receiving parents in the operative unit in order to know possible socio-educational criticalities, and styles of life, therefore making it easier to show prevention strategies.
It is necessary to take care of several educational aspects such as relationship with parents, health education, correct styles of life and food habits. Reflections are very meaningful on the politics of welfare for a proper integration among area-heathcare-social policy- educational policy.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Code GP003679
CFU 4
Teacher Nicola Falocci
Teachers
Hours
  • 48 ore -
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area C_05 inglese scientifico e abilità linguistiche, informatiche, tecnologie di informazione e comunicazione e discipline tecnico-scientifiche di supporto all'odontoiatria
Sector INF/01
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)

General Psycology

Code GP003682
CFU 2
Teacher Daniela Laricchiuta
Teachers
  • Daniela Laricchiuta
Hours
  • 24 ore - Daniela Laricchiuta
Learning activities Base
Area B_01. discipline generali per la formazione dell'odontoiatra
Sector M-PSI/01
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction Italian
Contents Learning the psychological foundations applied to the operational and experiential field of healthcare professions; the basic relational strategies characterizing professional roles in healthcare settings; the development of teamwork dynamics, which represents one of the key challenges in ensuring the highest quality of care
Reference texts Elementi di psicologia per le professioni d'aiuto. Antonio Loperfido e Barbara Muzzatti, 2022
Educational objectives Theoretical and practical learning of the fundamentals of general psychology. Knowledge of topics related to communication, the therapeutic relationship, effective techniques, and assertive communication, as well as concepts concerning the development of cognitive processes and disorders in response to traumatic events. Learning the elements of psychology will be essential in the training of future generations of healthcare professionals, characterized by the relational skills required to meet users' needs at different stages of life, in various contexts, and through different models of care
Prerequisites None
Teaching methods The lessons will be delivered through traditional classroom teaching. Working groups on topics related to the course content will be organized as part of the program.
Other information
Learning verification modality Oral exam
Extended program Psychology as a tool for understanding the human being. The psychological complexity of the person. Health, illness, and psychology. Illness as a subjective experience. Health and illness in different life conditions. Modes of communication. Some psychological tools for the helping relationship. The helping relationship throughout all stages of life.
Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile

MEDICAL STATISTICS

Code GP003680
CFU 4
Teacher Nicola Falocci
Teachers
  • Nicola Falocci
Hours
  • 48 ore - Nicola Falocci
Learning activities Base
Area B_01. discipline generali per la formazione dell'odontoiatra
Sector MED/01
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)
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