PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES: PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS, UOTCOMES EVALUATION AND OCCUPATIONAL INTEGRATION
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- MARIA GIULIA NANNI
- Credits
- 4
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
Training objectives
- MODULE PEDAGOGY, ANDRAGOGY AND BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
The course intends to provide the basic knowledge of pedagogy and its major thinkers. Give students all the tools they need to deal with and recognize the presence of a person with disabilities and the situation in which they are affiliated. Identify the correct strategies to make the operator / user relationship as effective as possible.
MODULE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY1
The student, at the end of the course, will have to know the assumptions and the principles of the Occupational Therapy, to properly assess the limitations of the abilities of the patients, to identify the most important models of interventions and vicarious strategies.
MODULE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY2
- Learning the fundamentals of occupational therapy for individuals diagnosed with a severe mental disorder, in all the core aspects including school/work/hobbies
- becoming familiar with the most updated scientific literature on occupational therapy implemented in community mental health services
- becoming able to choose and administer the most appropriate structured scale/questionnaire to evaluate users’ skills, preferences, ambitions, goals, eliminate cultural/social/psychopathological barriers, evaluate the individualized program outcomes.
- becoming able to formulate and tailor a program around the users’ needs and preferences, in a patient-centered framework, and to monitor its outcomes over time Prerequisites
- The student should be already familiar with the following concepts 1) severe mental disorders (general and descriptive psychopathology),
2) psychopharmacology (categories of the most frequently used medications in psychiatry e.g. antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedatives, mood stabilizers; formulations -long acting, oral, i.m.; short and long term side effects);
3) personal recovery Course programme
- MODULE PEDAGOGY, ANDRAGOGY AND BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
The educational program examines both people with disabilities and their health and the needs of children and therefore their communicative and relational strategies:
- Definition of handicap deficit and various aspects of disability
- Reduction of the handicap and aspects of the integrity of the professionals
- communicative modes of the child: psycho-pedagogical, didactic, methodological aspects
- Motor activity addressed to people with various types of disabilities: physical, sensory, cognitive, emotional, relational, aimed at improving the quality of life
- Needs the child based on contexts
- Designing an educational intervention
- Case Analysis (group work)
- Introduction of I.C.F. International Classification of Health and Disability Operation (O.M.S.).
MODULE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Definition and theoretical assumptions of Occupational Therapy. The model of the occupational functioning and the autonomy measurement. Intervention strategies in Occupational Therapy. The expressive therapies: Music Therapy, Art Therapy, Theatre Therapy and Dance Therapy. Didactic methods
- Lectures, participative remarks, audiovisual vision and commentary, workshops. Case discussion and formulation of a personalized occupational project
Learning assessment procedures
- MODULE PEDAGOGY, ANDRAGOGY AND BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
The exam consists of writing a written work. As a test that has a creative and design character, students will be able to consult their study texts during the drafting process.
Critical, proactive, creative and design orientation will be evaluated within the topics covered during the course.
MODULE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Single written exam (90 minutes) for both the teachers, with three open questions (usually, the first and the second on the basis of Occupational Therapy, the third concerning a case discussion). The test is invalidated by the lack of one of the answers. For the passed test, (starting from 18 points), for each answer will be given a score from 1 to 4, based on its accuracy and completeness. If the three answers have all got the maximum points, then it is given 30 “cum laude”.
THE FINAL GRADE IS A WEIGHTED AVERAGE OF THE MARKS OBTAINED IN EACH TESTS. Reference texts
- MODULE PEDAGOGY, ANDRAGOGY AND BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
A. Gramigna, Dinamiche della conoscenza, Roma, Aracne, 2015
A. Philips, I no che aiutano a crescere, Ed. Feltrinelli, 2013
OMS (Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità), I.C.F., versione breve, ed Erikson Trento, 2009
MODULE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY: Slides and training materials provided by the teachers.
