Corso di laurea in Fisioterapia

Provide knowledge related to psychology applied to the profession with particular reference:

• to the psychoclinical processes of the disease, of the trauma and of the hospitalization in the patient and in the relatives of the same
  
• to the help relationship between the operator and the patient
  
• to the classification and the neuropsychological treatment

Knowledge and Understanding

At the end of the lessons, students should demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Approaching patients with acute and post-acute brain injuries.

• Acquiring the ability to assess cognitive, behavioral, and motor impairments.

• Being able to develop an empathetic relationship with the patient.

• Being useful in interdisciplinary approaches.

• Approaching patients with mental disorders.

• Understanding depressive, bipolar, anxiety, eating, and somatoform disorders.

• Knowledge of psychopharmacological therapies.

• Having an understanding of psychotherapeutic treatments.

• Understanding personality traits and personality disorders.

• Examining multidimensional aspects of embodiment in clinical psychology.

• Understanding cognitive and emotional processes.

• Building therapeutic relationships and communication techniques.

• Neuropsychological aspects, assessment tools, brain alterations associated with neuropsychological impairments.

• Characteristics and dysfunction of language.

• Communicative disabilities and rehabilitation.

Psychology, the study of personality with its characteristics: Body schema; Image and Ideal of the Body; Image and Ideal of Self.

• Cognitive processes (perception, attention, memory, thought). Learning
• Emotional processes, emotional intelligence, defense mechanisms, the capacity for emotional "resilience".
• The emotional experience of illness, trauma and opedalization in adults, children, the elderly and family members. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
• The emotional experience of the caregiver's staff in front of the patient.
• The helping relationship.
• Effective and ineffective therapeutic techniques of communication ..
• The physiotherapist and the psychological and neuropsychological dimension of the most common pathologies in his professional activity (the traumatized cranial patient with frontal syndrome, the patient with ESA, the medulloleso patient, the cancer patient, the amputated patient, the adolescent with spinal deformity, the burned patient).
• Psychological and neuropsychological tools for patient assessment, treatment and rehabilitation; psychological work with the patient's family.

Written exam with 10 closed multiple choice questions;