SOCIOLOGIA E PSICOLOGIA DELLE ATTIVITA OCCUPAZIONALI

8 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

ROBERTO VIGNERA - Module General Sociology - SPS/07 - 3 CFU
SANTO DI NUOVO - Module General Psychology - M-PSI/01 - 3 CFU
CARLO COLLOCA - Module ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY SOCIOLOGY EMPLOYMENT THERAPY - SPS/10 - 2 CFU

Learning Objectives

General Sociology
The educational objectives are outlined as the realization of a plan of study designed to present some Sociology of Health and Illness issues as specifically configured on the peculiarities of the training process offered to students of the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy. Particular attention will be paid in highlighting those theoretical-conceptual tools and empirical guidance through which to develop those analytical sensitivities increasingly necessary to identify, in general, the delicate relationship between demand and supply of health resources in contemporary societies, and more specifically, the problems that characterize the provision and the function of occupational therapy according to its own application fields.
General Psychology
The module aims at providing the foundations of psychological processes and their possible applications useful for the occupational therapist.
ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY SOCIOLOGY EMPLOYMENT THERAPY
The module intends to reflect on the different land planning applications and the different space production practices, paying particular attention to the social spaces of care and health.

Course Structure

General Sociology
The culturalization of illness and the therapeutic process;

Organized groups, health facilities and the use of therapeutic resources;

The health-illness dichotomy in the heart of the social system: roles and tasks;

The two great fields of pathogenic strains: family and working fields;

The sociological analysis projected on the Health-Illness Related Behavior;

The inversion of pathogenic strains and the role of occupational therapy.
General Psychology
Lectures and exercises with individual and group work.

Attending to lessons is compulsory according with the rules of the course.
ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY SOCIOLOGY EMPLOYMENT THERAPY
Teaching will focus on lectures, seminars on some specific topics, research case studies and possibly the development of individual and / or group projects. Over at the oral exposition of the topics dealt with, during the course the teacher will make use of it and audiovisual supports.

Detailed Course Content

General Sociology
1) Medicine and Society. In the heart of the social system.
2) The socio-cultural components of Health-Illness related behavior. The HBM - The HRA. Medical model and moral model.
3) The first ethnographic approaches to health and illness and their overcome.
4) The Parsonsian theory. The sick role and its institutionalization.
5) Somatic disease and mental illness. Roles and tasks. Pathogenic strains between system of personality and social system.
6) The therapeutic process as a form of social control in the doctor-patient dynamics system.
7) Criticism of Parsonsian perspective. The theme of mental illness. Integration Vs adaptation. Psychiatry and anti-psychiatry.
8) The sociology of medicine in the debate on the redefinition of welfare state. The tragic choices in health care.
9) The corporatization of health care and the overcoming of pure medical model.
General Psychology
Historical background on scientific psychology and its methods.

Cognitive functions: attention, perception, memory and learning, thinking and problem-solving

Motivation and emotion.

Applications to the rehabilitation field.
ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY SOCIOLOGY EMPLOYMENT THERAPY
The course provides students with the interpretative and methodological tools useful for the sociological analysis of the most recent transformations in the relationship between care spaces and individuals. The hospital, but also other places of care, today are spaces in transformation. The profound changes that have taken place in recent years in the social-healthcare field push to find ways of hospitalization and relationships that are different from those of the past, when medicalization revolved around the pathology alone. Care places today require special attention to the spaces for welcoming the citizen, as well as his relational and living needs. Feeling welcomed in spatially friendly structures, in which the privacy of the individual and his socialization needs are protected, as well as being able to enjoy dedicated time, are very much needed today.

Textbook Information

General Sociology
Vignera R., Protagonisti e interpreti della sociologia sanitaria, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2005, first part, capp. I, III, IV.
General Psychology
Study materials on the contents of the course will be provided by the teacher.

They will be uploaded in the STUDIUM section of the website www.unict.it
ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY SOCIOLOGY EMPLOYMENT THERAPY
- Giorgio Osti, Sociologia del territorio, il Mulino, Bologna, 2010, pp. 75-108.

- Leonardo Chiesi, Silvia Surrenti, L'ospedale difficile. Lo spazio sociale della cura e della salute, Liguori, Napoli, 2015 (soltanto: Introduzione; cap. 1 - Situarsi nello spazio progettato. Per una definizione sociologica dell´abitare; cap. 2 - Il tempo agito. Esperienze di alterità spazio-temporali nel contesto ospedaliero; cap. 3 - Privacy cloud, dignità e riservatezza nell´ospedale. Un´analisi del rapporto tra spazio e relazioni sociali)

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