43066 - Psychology of Emergencies and Critical Events

Course contents

Introduction to crisis psychology.
Psychotraumatology and psycosocial support.
Human response to danger and behaviors in fires and crowd events.
Psychological effects of extreme environmental conditions.
Resilience and posttraumatic growth.Psychopathology after traumatic events ( depression, Post traumatic stress disorder).
Psychological itnerventions at individual, group and community level: CISM,  Psychological First Aid, psychosocial support.
Secondary traumatic stress  an compassion fatigue: training rescue workers
Comunication in the emergency services: death notification and emergency telephone calls.
Emergency services and organization (118, police organization, firefighters)
Disaster management e risk managament.

Readings/Bibliography

FOR ERASMUS STUDENS

Pietrantoni L., Prati G., Psicologia dell'emergenza, Il Mulino, Bologna ( in uscita inizio 2009)

Pietrantoni L., Prati G., Palestini L. Il Primo Soccorso Psicologico nelle maxi-emergenze e nei disastri. Clueb, Bologna.

slides on Guideweb

A scientific article from PSYCHOINFO on topics

Questionnaire with open ended and multiple choices questions on 2 books and slides. Interview on scientific article will be followed in the same day.

Teaching methods

Some lectures of experts will be included in the classes. Theaching methods will be case study, role-playing, work on scientific papers.

Assessment methods

Office hours

See the website of Luca Pietrantoni