Clinical and health psychology for medical contests

Lectures (48 hours): Historical notes, the evolution of counseling. Distinctions between interview counseling and psychotherapy. Ethical and multicultural skills. Interpersonal communication. Non-verbal communication. The pragmatics of communication. Listening to the narration and organizing the interview. The formulation of the contract. Theoretical orientation to counseling: the Rogersian approach; The cognitive-behavioral interview; Transactional analysis; Neuro-linguistic programming; Motivational interview; Group counseling, counseling in different contexts and with different clients. Laboratory lessons (36 hours): Natural response styles. The stages of the interview: basic skills and micro abilities. Empathy, unconditional acceptance, genuineness. Questioning; paraphrasing; reflecting meaning and feelings; confronting; giving information; interpreting. Integration of basic techniques.

Knowledge of Italian: INDISPENSABLE Knowledge of basic cognitive mechanisms: USEFUL Knowledge of the different psychotherapeutic approaches: USEFUL Knowledge of clinical models and explanation of psychopathology: USEFUL

Teaching materials and articles made available via elearning uniroma1.it https://elearning.uniroma1.it/course/view.php?id=13872 - Di Fabio, A. (1999). Counseling. Dalla teoria all’applicazione. Firenze: Giunti. - Ivey e Ivey e Zalaquett (2018). Il colloquio intenzionale e il counselling. LAS. - Meier, S.T., Davis, S.R. (2011). Guida al counseling. In 61 regole fondamentali cosa fare e non fare per costruire un buon rapporto d'aiuto. Franco Angeli.

The course consists of lectures supported by electronic presentations and other material that will be made available on e-learning via uniroma1 following lessons. Ample space will be given to guided practical exercises and activities to be carried out in small groups. During the lessons, students will be expected to actively participate and they will be invited to practice and self-evaluate, individually, and in a small group. Students will also be asked to carry out role-playings, to bring in class transcripts of interviews conducted at home, to analyze transcripts presented by the teacher, to analyze scientific articles. Frequency: Attendance at lectures is strongly recommended. The laboratory is mandatory.

The course consists of lectures supported by electronic presentations and other material that will be made available on e-learning via uniroma1 following lessons. Ample space will be given to guided practical exercises and activities to be carried out in small groups. During the lessons, students will be expected to actively participate and they will be invited to practice and self-evaluate, individually, and in a small group. Students will also be asked to carry out role-playings, to bring in class transcripts of interviews conducted at home, to analyze transcripts presented by the teacher, to analyze scientific articles. Frequency: Attendance at lectures is strongly recommended. The laboratory is mandatory.

Number of tests and timing: The exam will consist of a final assessment of the knowledge and skills acquired. This will be scheduled at the end of the course during the exam sessions. During the course for the laboratory part, counseling skills will be checked weekly. In addition, students will be asked to conduct and deliver two interviews, one at the beginning and one at the end of the course, to respectively evaluate their natural style of response and their ability to apply the counseling skills. Type, duration and method of the exam: Written test lasting 40 minutes consisting of closed and open questions on the books indicated, on the supplementary teaching materials and on the lab material delivered in class. According to the teacher, the written test can be accompanied by an oral exam. The evaluation (for the lab part) will concern the ability to apply the counseling skills in excerpts of interviews and will consider the practical exercises and experiences carried out in the classroom and handed over to the teacher. Final evaluation: In the assessment of the examination the determination of the final grade takes into account the following elements: 1. Knowledge of the teaching contents and empathic understanding of the client's problem and of his perspective 2. ability to know how to use the interview techniques 3. ability to individuate and choose appropriate interventions 4. ability to use a language appropriate to the interlocutor. To pass the exam you must obtain a grade of not less than 18/30. The student must demonstrate to have acquired sufficient knowledge of the topics covered during the lectures and to be able to apply most of the techniques learned during the workshop part, critically justifying his/her choice. To achieve a score of 30/30 cum laude, the students must demonstrate to have acquired an excellent knowledge of all the topics covered during the course, being able to connect them in a logical and coherent way and must demonstrate to know how to apply intentionally all the learned techniques, justifying in a critical way, the reasons of their choice.

Teaching materials and articles made available via elearning uniroma1.it https://elearning.uniroma1.it/course/view.php?id=13872 - Di Fabio, A. (1999). Counseling. Dalla teoria all’applicazione. Firenze: Giunti. - Ivey e Ivey e Zalaquett (2018). Il colloquio intenzionale e il counselling. LAS. - Meier, S.T., Davis, S.R. (2011). Guida al counseling. In 61 regole fondamentali cosa fare e non fare per costruire un buon rapporto d'aiuto. Franco Angeli.

In a first phase the students learn the theoretical-technical rationale of the management of the interview, they recognize the various theoretical models in order to be able to recall the main concepts. Later, they participate in the discussion of transcripts in which the concepts learned are exemplified and the applica-tion of the previously learned techniques is illustrated. Students are invited to organize and plan an inter-view, to classify and differentiate counseling skills, to infer the objectives related to the use of one or anoth-er strategy and to compare possible interventions. They are asked to produce interviews in which to imple-ment and execute the interview techniques they have learned. The course is divided into lectures supported by electronic presentations and other material that will be made available on e-learning following the lessons. Ample space will be given to the implementation of guided practical exercises and activities to be performed in small groups. During the lessons, students will be asked to actively participate and they will be invited to organize and plan an interview, to practice and self-evaluate, individually, and in a small group, verifying the correct application of the techniques. Students will also be asked to implement simulations, to bring transcripts of interviews held at home, to analyze transcripts presented by the teacher, to analyze scientific articles.