- Docente: Francesca Agostini
- Credits: 8
- SSD: M-PSI/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in School and community psychology (cod. 0993)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student: - will know the psychodynamic models of development; - will be able to detect risk and protection factors and signs of discomfort in education context; - will know the main psychodynamic assessment methods; - will know the techniques of psychodynamic counselling.
Course contents
The course will take place during the first semester (October to December 2017) at the Cesena Campus of the School of Psychology and Education (address: piazza A. Moro, 90).
The course is for students attending the 2nd year of Laurea Magistrale in Educational and Community Psychology.
Main topics of the course are:
- Models and definitions of developmental psychopathology
- Developmental psychobiology and psychopathology
- Transition to parenthood, infant intersubjectivity: social and emotional development and developmental psychopathology
- Parental psychopathology and influence on child development
- Self-other awareness and regulation and disregulation of affect
- Stressful and traumatic events: impact on the child's development
- Affective syndormes and dysregulation syndromes
- Behavioral disorders, attachment disorders and pervasive developmental disorders
- Assessment and preventive interventions:prevention, mental health promotion and crisis intervention
- Cathegorical and dimensional classification of newborn's and children's disorders: PDM
- Infant Observation
Readings/Bibliography
The student has to study the 3 following books:
Massimo Ammaniti (a cura di) (2010). Psicopatologia dello Sviluppo. Modelli teorici e percorsi a rischio. Milano: Raffaello Cortina Editore
PDM Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual , AXIS IEC, (2006)
Fiorella Monti (2014). Osservare al Nido. Pensieri in cerca di un Pensatore. Bologna: Persiani Editore
Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons
- Training on instruments for assessment in early childhood and adolescence
- Clinical cases: analysis and group discussion
- Observation and video discussion
- Invited experts on topics regarding developmental psychopatholgy
Assessment methods
Final oral exam, on the 3 books.
Specific relevance is given to the achivement of an organic vision of all topics, together with acquisition of a specific language and a deep knowledge of instruments for the assessment
Some possible questions:
- Paradigms in Psychopathology
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Parenting and personality disorders
- Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms of development
- Risk mechanism for mental disorders of development
- Observation in family and comunity relations
- Development Scales
- Early Disorders
- Assessment
- Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood-Revised (DC: 0-3R)
- Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual: developmental lines and homotypic/heterotypic continuities of early infancy, childhood
- Mental Health Prevention and Intervention
The student has to subscribe for the exam to the internet website respecting the deadline. Studentes having problems in the subscription, nedd to get in contact with the Didactic Office.
The Professor will then decide if admitting the student or not.
Teaching tools
Projector, dvd, pc
Office hours
See the website of Francesca Agostini