To know the scientific bases and the therapeutic and rehabilitative potential of graphic-pictorial techniques. To provide a method to activate a channel of communication through graphic-pictorial abilities. To develop the student's ability to observe and guide patients in the laboratory setting.
Acquisition of knowledge on major rehabilitation techniques based on the activity of drama (theatrical, cinematic, photographic) and their use in therapeutic field. Acquisition of the necessary skills to design a rehabilitation treatment program based on the technical object of matter, as well as to the individual's ability to integrate into multidisciplinary teams.
The course in Music Therapy, for rehabilitation therapists, illustrates in systematic terms, some strategies and techniques of music therapy, suggesting the use of music as a relational and non-verbal process, through which build a therapeutic relationship, especially when the patient has high levels of disability. Students will be shown the main orientations of contemporary music therapy and the related methods of intervention.
Frontal interactive lessons
Seminars
Frontal lectures
Application of the graphic-pictorial project in training, prevention, reintegration and rehabilitation in mentally disabled subjects. Expressive modalities of thinking and personal experiences through the non-verbal language of visual and plastic art. Symbolization of thoughts and emotions. Self-recognition and self-understanding process, environmental interaction. Definition and role of the art therapist: materials preparation in a protected environment, relaxation, assessment of the relational context. Evaluation of results and corrective feedback.
Notes on rehabilitation in psychiatry (mental disability, chronicity and care) and notes on major psychiatric disorders subject to possible treatment-rehabilitation (neuroses, psychoses, personality disorders) and problems related to this. Rehabilitative models. Game, story and images to rehab. History of Theatre. The mask and the ritual. Creativity and art therapy. The therapeutic function of theater and theatrical techniques. Psychodrama of Moreno. The sociodrama Moreno and sociometry. Playback Theatre. Drama therapy. Other techniques of theatrical activity of therapeutic, social and training use (remedial theater, role method, t. oppressed, t. social, etc.). The cinema and its therapeutic function; videotherapy and video making. Techniques of therapeutic work with photography. The personalized therapeutic project (planning, outcome assessment, working time). The integrated multidisciplinary approach. The role of TDR, from the clinic to the formation of working groups. Presentation of a clinical case and drafting of intervention hypotheses based on the exposed techniques (exercise in small groups and discussion in the large group).
- Ba G (2003). Strumenti e tecniche della Riabilitazione Psichiatrica. FrancoAngeli, Milano.
- Ba G, Magnotti R (2002). Tecniche di intervento in un atelier di arteterapia. In M Rabboni (a cura di) I colori della mente. Art brut e arteterapia contro lo stigma della psicosi. Marsilio, Venezia
- Slides and other didactic materials
1. Ba G. - Strumenti e Tecniche di riabilitazione psichiatrica e psicosociale, Ed. Franco Angeli, Milano 2003 (IX reprint, 2014)
2. Pitruzzella S. - Manuale di Teatro Creativo , Ed. Franco Angeli, Milano 2004