GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY I

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

General Module

Course Sheet

Course code:

AS11A3A

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in HEALTH ASSISTANCE

Disciplinary Sector:

General Psychology

Is part of:

PREVENTION AND HEALTH SERVICES SCIENCES

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

DE CAMILLIS NADIA

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Objectives

Know the birth of scientific psychology, the main currents of thought, empathy and communication skills.
The psychology of pain

Contents

M-PSI / 01 General Psychology
-History of Psychology
-Structuralism
- Behaviorism
-Freud and psychoanalysis
- Cognitivism
-Various orientations in Psychology
-The counseling interview as a psychological intervention and as a helping relationship; the helping relationship and the skills of communication and active listening
- The psychology of pain

Extended Syllabus

GENESIS AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

- The concept of psyche
- Cartesian dualism
- The philosophical tradition and physiology
- The birth of scientific psychology

• THE MAIN THEORIES

- Wundt and the birth of psychology
- Structuralism
- Classical Beviourism
- The gestalt
- The birth of dynamic psychology
- Freud
- Cognitivism
- Humanistic-existential psychology
- Maslow and the scale of needs

Recommended Bibliography

Lecture notes and slides of the teacher
Recommended and optional texts:
Psychology and Medicine, Paola Benvenuti, Carocci; Fundamentals of general psychology, Paolo Legrenzi, Ed Il Mulino (2019)
History of Psychology, Il Mulino, Bologna.
Eysenck M.W. (Italian edition edited by Bellelli, Di Nuovo, Matarazzo) (2016).

Teaching Methods

lectures, exercises, discussion of clinical cases

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination. In the event of non-acceptance of the grade or failure to reach the mark, the exam can be taken starting from the next session.

Contacts/More Information

Reception of the teacher by appointment:
Prof. Nadia De Camillis 0871/357925
e-mail: nadia.decamillis@unich.it

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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