Aims

- to teach the students how to analyse and theorise the data and the clinical stakes coming under the institutional order in mental health, by putting straitghtaway the problem of interdisciplinary open mindedness

Main themes

- historical evolution of mental health institutions
- current institutional scenery in clinical psychology in the view of prevention, therapy and rehabilitation
- roles, status and tasks of the clinical psychologist in the institution and his relations with the other health specialists
- analysis of mental health institutions as "essentially therapeutic vectors" gathering caregivers and cared in a structure governed by its own laws: power and communication structures, organisation chart and sociogram, therapy projects, spaces for speech, decision and development of skills and technics
- development of the notion of "institutional psychotherapy", according to the various theorico-practical currents: french, anglo-saxon and italian models
- analysis of the various forms of institutional psychotherapies according to the peculiarity of the concerned populations: drug addicts, pasychopath, mentally handicapped, etc.

Content and teaching methods

- to teach the students how to analyse and theorise the data and the clinical stakes coming under the institutional order in mental health, by putting straitghtaway the problem of interdisciplinary open mindedness.
- group psychotherapies, institutional psychotherapies, network practice
- change practice. A new proposition: the rite of passage applied to the provisional community principally formed by the institution and the resident's family

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Coordinator and invitation to persons working in institutions

Other credits in programs