Program Overview

Program Overview

The Tecnica della riabilitazione psichiatrica program is a three-year degree course that enables students to become psychiatric rehabilitation technicians. This program falls under the category of health professions and is classified as LM/SNT2 (D.M. 270/04).

General Information

• Language: Italian
• Class of Degree: LM/SNT2 (D.M. 270/04)
• Type of Course: Laurea
• Duration: 3 years
• Type of Access: Number of places programmed at the national level
• Area of Affiliation: Medicine and Surgery
• Department: Department of Systems Medicine
• Course Code: L98

Description and Educational Objectives

The course prepares health professionals in the area of rehabilitation, who carry out activities aimed at prevention, care, rehabilitation, and functional assessment procedures for individuals with psychiatric disabilities and the community. It provides adequate preparation in basic disciplines to understand the characteristic elements of pathological processes on which rehabilitative intervention focuses. Through biochemical, physical, statistical, anatomical, physiological, pathological, clinical, surgical, psychological, and sociological competencies, students will acquire a solid knowledge base of biological aspects and functions of human organs and systems, statistical methodology for detecting phenomena regulating individual and social life, and concepts of emergency and first aid in close interaction with characteristic disciplines.

Professional Outcomes

The course enables students to work as psychiatric rehabilitation technicians, collaborating with a multiprofessional team to carry out rehabilitative and educational interventions on subjects with psychiatric disabilities. Graduates will be able to evaluate psychiatric disability and potential, analyze needs and evolutionary instances, and reveal family and socio-environmental resources, collaborating in identifying formative-therapeutic and psychiatric rehabilitation objectives.

Employment Opportunities

Graduates can work in public or private health structures and services, in dependency or freelance regimes, including:

• Formulating specific intervention programs aimed at recovery and development of the subject under treatment
• Interventions aimed at enabling/rehabilitating subjects to self-care and interpersonal relationships of varying complexity, as well as, where possible, to a work activity
• Primary prevention in the territory to promote network relationships, favoring the acceptance and management of risk situations for manifested pathologies
• Interventions on families and the social context of subjects, with the aim of favoring their reintegration into the community
• Evaluating the outcomes of the enablement and rehabilitation program in individual subjects
• Training support staff and continuous updating

Course Structure and Attendance

The course includes both theoretical and practical training, with compulsory attendance for all activities, including theoretical lessons and internships. This comprehensive approach ensures that students acquire not only the theoretical knowledge but also the practical skills necessary for their future profession.