Psychology

This course discusses the identification and use of persuasive communication and conflict management in the context of psychological and social intervention.

This course examines the biological, psychological, and environmental bases of human pathological behavior and the main methods for psychiatric assessment. The course reviews psychiatric diseases in adulthood and adolescence, as described in recognized diagnostic systems, such as DSM and ICD. Course topics also include diagnostic methods; diagnostic instruments including neuroimaging techniques (TAC, RMN, SPET E PET), neuroendocrinology, neuropsychology, and neurophysiology; treatments, including drugs, psychotherapy, remediation techniques, prevention, and interventions; psychopharmacology; differential diagnosis; and neuropsychological and structural/functional neuroimaging correlates of psychiatric diseases. The course explores the etiopathogenesis, clinical and prognostic features, epidemiology, prevention, pathophysiology and neuropsychological, and neuroimaging correlates, biological, and psychotherapic treatments of the main psychiatric diseases: delirium and dementia, alcohol and substance abuse/dependence and correlated diseases, schizophrenia and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, dissociative disorders, somatoform disorders, suicidal behavior, and eating disorders: anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, personality disorders.

This course is an introduction to Psychological First Aid (PFA) in order to assist populations in the aftermath of a critical event. Topics include: aims and application of PFA; patterns of response; PFA for children, teenagers, and adults; psycho-education skills; self-care techniques for responders.

This course provide an overall account of some of the main theoretical and empirical issues in key areas within cognitive psychology. It covers a wide range of topics, including selective attention, problem solving, reasoning, judgement, blindsight, unilateral neglect, social attention, word recognition, and cognitive psychology of sleep.