DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SCIENCES AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
Master's Degree in Health Professions of Rehabilitation Sciences
Academic Year 2015/2016 - 2° Year

C.I. PSICOLOGIA E SOCIOLOGIA

Teaching Staff

Detailed Course Content

• Sociology of Cultural Processes and Communication
  

  The course will introduce students to a range of sociological perspectives on culture and communication.
  Theoretical and practical tools will be provided in order to support social interactions, control stereotypes and stigmatization processes and develop role taking skills. Special emphasis will be placed on the perspective of Symbolic Interactionism.
  Part of the course will be devoted to sociological research on physical disability and stigma.

  - Definition of culture.
  Classical theories.
  Conflictualist perspectives.
  Structural-functionalist perspectives.
  Symbolic Interactionism (Mead, Blumer, Becker, Denzin).

  - Communication Processes and Social Interactions
  The social construction of Self (G. H. Mead, W. James, C. H. Cooley).
  Primary and secondary socialization, re-socialization (P. Berger, T. Luckmann).
  Significant others and reference groups (T. Shibutani). Subcultures and social worlds (H. S. Becker, G. A. Fine, A. Strauss). Stereotypes and prejudices (W. Lippman, G. Allport). Stigma and Labeling Theory. Total Institutions (E. Goffman, K. Plummer, L. Athens, S. Cohen).

• SCIENZE INFERMIERISTICHE E TECNICHE NEURO-PSICHIATRICHE E RIABILITATIVE
  

  Anatomy and phisiology of central and peripheral nervous system

  Evaluation of disability and handicap

  Main Neurological Diseases of central peripheral nervous system

  Principles of Neurorehabilitation

  Orhosis and prosthetic devices

• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  
  Degenerative and traumatic diseases of the spine and rehabilitation; disorders of the CNS and rehabilitation; pathologies of the SNP and rehabilitation; instrumental therapy and EBM; rheumatic disease and rehabilitation treatment; traumatic and degenerative diseases of the musculoskeletal system and rehabilitation treatment; functional assessment scales; utilities of the neurophysiological technique in rehabilitation; self-rehabilitation of spastic paresis.
• Orthopaedics and Traumatology
  

  The course is based on the main orthopaedic and traumatologic disorders, highlighting: epidemiology, etiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, imaging investigations, differential diagnosis, prognosis, complications, conservative and surgical treatment.

Textbook Information

• Sociology of Cultural Processes and Communication
  

  1. Wendy Griswold, Cultures and Societies in a Changing World,
  New York, Sage, 2008, pp. 1-55, pp. 97-116.
  2. Rosalba Perrotta, Cornici, specchi e maschere. Interazionismo simbolico e comunicazione, Clueb, Bologna, 2005, pp. 15-57, pp. 87-172.
  3. Rosalba Perrotta (a cura di), Un cuore di farfalla. Studi su disabilità fisica e stigma, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2009.
  

• SCIENZE INFERMIERISTICHE E TECNICHE NEURO-PSICHIATRICHE E RIABILITATIVE
  

  1) Pinelli P. "Neurologia - Principi di diagnostica e Terapia" casa editrice Ambrosiana

  2) Bradley and Daroff: "Handbook of Clinical Neurology" casa editrice Springer

• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  
  1) Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice (Volume II: Rehabilitation medicine) Hardcover 2) –Joel A. DeLisa (Editor), Bruce M. Gans (Editor), Nicolas E. Walsh (Editor)
• Orthopaedics and Traumatology
  

  1. Sessa-Villani. Ortopedia e Traumatologia. Monduzzi Editore.