ENDLIFE Death studies and the end of life for supportive interventions

Il Master in Death studies and the end of life for supportive interventions offre i riferimenti concettuali per accedere alle dimensioni relative a:

• evoluzione culturale e storica del concetto di morte;
• lutto e processi psicologici della perdita e sua elaborazione;
• death education come strategia educativa e di prevenzione;
• comprensione della simbologia e delle rappresentazioni inerenti alla morte nel ciclo di vita e nei diversi contesti culturali;
• elementi di bioetica e biodiritto, counselling tanatologico e sostegno psicologico e/o filosofico;
• rapporto fra tanatologia e scienze mediche, psicologiche, filosofiche, sociologiche, antropologiche e storiche;
• presa in carico e cura del fine vita.

Il Master in Death studies and the end of life for supportive interventions fornisce strumenti utili per operare, in base al proprio profilo professionale di provenienza, in ambiti quali i servizi di cure palliative, le reti territoriali di mutuo aiuto e volontariato, e le iniziative di sensibilizzazione e supporto riguardanti morte, lutto e fine vita.

Il corsista acquisisce:

• una conoscenza del modo in cui la morte traumatica e naturale vengono rappresentate individualmente e socialmente;
• capacità di progettazione, realizzazione e valutazione di percorsi educativi inerenti all’elaborazione del senso di morte;
• capacità di gestione delle relazioni d’aiuto con il morente e i suoi familiari in forma individuale e/o di gruppo;
• competenza nella conduzione di gruppi di lavoro con medici, psicologi, infermieri, formatori, educatori, assistenti sociali;
• capacità di riconoscere il bisogno sociale nell’ambito del morire e del lutto all’interno di reparti ospedalieri, strutture territoriali, istituzioni private e nel campo del privato sociale.

Il Master in Death studies and the end of life for supportive interventions mette in gioco diverse discipline specialistiche di tre fondamentali campi del sapere: filosofico e religioso, medico infermieristico, psicologico,  sociologico e antropologico.

I contenuti che vengono considerati riguardano:

• la significazione della morte e del morire;
• le diverse forme del morire;
• il morire in diverse culture e situazioni;
• il lutto e processi psicologici relativi alla perdita e alla sua elaborazione;
• la death education tra prevenzione primaria/secondaria/terziaria;
• la morte nel ciclo di vita;
• la gestione del fine-vita tra questioni di bioetica e di biodiritto;
• la consulenza e il sostegno a chi muore e a chi accompagna;
• la tanatologia e le scienze mediche, psicologiche, filosofiche, giuridiche e religiose.

Una particolare attenzione viene offerta all’elaborazione personale da parte dei corsisti delle loro opinioni e degli atteggiamenti relativi alla morte e alla paura di morire, affinché le competenze relative alle rappresentazioni individuali e socio-culturali della morte in tutte le sue espressioni concrete e simboliche vengano operazionalizzate e impostate per progettare interventi finalizzati alla promozione della vita e della sua qualità nelle diverse situazioni di sofferenza e di crisi.

I macro temi trattati:

• La morte e la terra;
• Psicologia e filosofia: tra eternità e mistero;
• Psicodramma per l’elaborazione del lutto;
• Psicologia delle relazioni di aiuto;
• Psiconcologia;
• Abilità empatiche e ascolto rispettoso nella terminalità e nel lutto;
• Antropologia culturale della tanatologia;
• Fine-vita, palliazione e psiconcologia: modelli di intervento e ricerca;
• Narrazione e death education;
• Filosofia e parole della cura;
• Riflessione e pratica di bioetica e di biodiritto;
• Psicologia del ciclo di vita e comprensione della morte;
• Psicotanatologia e death education;
• La morte nel pensiero filosofico e teologico;
• Spiritualità, trascendenza e meditazione. Le tecniche tradizionali di preparazione alla morte;
• La metafisica della morte;
• Esperienze di premorte e non ordinarie – la relazione mente-cervello;
• Storia della morte, delle forme del morire e della ritualità funebre;
• Dal suicidio al lutto traumatico: strategie di intervento e prevenzione;
• Psicologia dell’invecchiamento.

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Eventi passati

• 26 Maggio 2023 – 25 Giugno 2023 – IMP 2023 – Festival Internazionale di Fotogiornalismo. IProgramma completo dell’evento.
• 7 – 9 settembre 2023 “DDD16: Imparare dalla sofferenza e dal morire – Nuovi linguaggi dalle scienze alle discipline umanistiche”. Congresso Internazionale ideato dalla Prof.ssa Ines Testoni. Polo Multifunzionale di Psicologia, via Venezia -Padova. Questo il link del Congresso: https://endlife.psy.unipd.it/Conferenza_LSFDD/
• Mercoledì 5 aprile 2023 – “Il pensiero positivo per una cultura di pace e istruzione applicata alla cultura di pace” – Simposio internazionale – Simposio internazionale condotto dalla Prof.ssa Ines Testoni Qui la locandina dell’evento. Foto e video dell’evento: https://www.peacerun.org/eu/news/2023/0405/4543/, https://www.peacerun.org/eu/news/2023/0403/4558/, https://www.peacerun.org/eu/news/2023/0404/4559/
• 28 ottobre 2022 – “Eternità incurabile” – Lectio Magistralis di Ines Testoni. Introduzione di Maria Angela Gelati e Alessia Zielo Qui la locandina
• “Il rumore del lutto” – Il Rumore del Lutto è un progetto culturale che nasce a Parma nel 2007, da un’idea di Maria Angela Gelati e Marco Pipitone. Ha l’ambizione di individuare un nuovo spazio, destinato al dialogo e alla riflessione sulla vita e sulla morte, attraverso il colloquio interdisciplinare e trasversale tra differenti ambiti. Il Rumore del Lutto è la prima Rassegna di Cultura in Death Education. Qui la locandina

• Elaborare il lutto, istruzioni per l’uso un master per imparare a dirgli addio (L’Identità – 30/04/2023)
• Se soffre anche il pet (L’Identità – 30/04/2023)
• Death education for palliative care: A european project for university students (BMC Palliative Care – 2023)
• Assessing pets’ quality of life and qualitatively exploring owners’ grief (Animals – 2023)
• Interest and confidence in death education and palliative psychology in italian and indian university students of psychology: Similarities and differences (Behavioral Sciences – 2023)
• Death education for palliative psychology: The impact of a death education course for italian university students (Behavioral Sciences – 2023)
• Strengths and weaknesses of children witnessing relatives with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Children – 2023)
• Shared death experiences: A multicultural survey (American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine – 2023)
• The COVID-19 pandemic between bio-ethics, bio-law and bio-politics: A case study on the italian experience of the DuPre commission (Ethics in Progress – 2022)
• Domestic dogs (canis familiaris) grieve over the loss of a conspecific (Scientific Reports – 2022)
• New psychological perspectives on death and Dying—Between normality and the COVID-19 emergency (Behavioral Sciences – 2022)
• The challenge of palliative psychology across the lifespan: Between new health emergencies and paradigm shifts (Frontiers in Psychology – 2022)
• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on perinatal loss among italian couples: A mixed-method study (Frontiers in Psychology – 2022)
• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on perinatal loss experienced by the parental couple: Protocol for a mixed methods study (JMIR Research Protocols – 2022)
• The last glance: How aesthetic observation of corpses facilitates detachment in grief work (Illness Crisis and Loss – 2022)
• Anticipatory mourning and narrative meaning-making in the younger breast cancer experience: An application of the meaning of loss codebook (Behavioral Sciences – 2022)
• Spirituality during COVID-19 in northern italy: The experience of participating in an online prayer group (Pastoral Psychology – 2022)
• Reconstructing social relationships in a post-lockdown suburban area of southern italy using pastoral counselling (Pastoral Psychology – 2022)
• Spirituality and Children’s coping with representation of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: Qualitative research with parents (Pastoral Psychology – 2022)
• Spirituality for coping with the trauma of a loved One’s death during the COVID-19 pandemic: An italian qualitative study (Pastoral Psychology – 2022)
• Facing muscular dystrophy during covid-19 pandemic: The role of support associations and spirituality (Pastoral Psychology – 2022)
• Spiritual counseling during the COVID-19 pandemic in italy: A qualitative study (Pastoral Psychology – 2022)
• An international study on psychological coping during COVID-19: Towards a meaning-centered coping style (International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology – 2022)
• Death notification in italian critical care unites and emergency services. A qualitative study with physicians, nurses and relatives (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health – 2021)
• The experience of children with a parent suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis during the COVID-19 pandemic (Scientific Reports – 2021)
• The hospice as a learning space: A death education intervention with a group of adolescents (BMC Palliative Care – 2021)
• The integration of stressful life experiences scale and the inventory of complicated spiritual grief: The italian validation of two instruments for meaning-focused assessments of bereavement (Behavioral Sciences – 2021)
• Suicide prevention: University students’ narratives on their reasons for living and for dying (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health – 2021)
• The COVID-19 disappeared: From traumatic to ambiguous loss and the role of the internet for the bereaved in italy (Frontiers in Psychiatry – 2021)
• Psychology students’ perceptions of COVID-19 in a death education course (Frontiers in Public Health – 2021)
• Facing COVID-19 between sensory and psychoemotional stress, and instrumental deprivation: A qualitative study of unmanageable critical incidents with doctors and nurses in two hospitals in northern italy (Frontiers in Psychology – 2021)
• Journalistic denial of death during the very first traumatic period of the italian covid-19 pandemic (Behavioral Sciences – 2021)
• Students’ confidence and interest in palliative and bereavement care: A european study (Frontiers in Psychology – 2021)
• Mourning and management of the COVID-19 health emergency in the priestly community: Qualitative research in a region of northern italy severely affected by the pandemic (Frontiers in Public Health – 2021)
• Stage 1 registered report: Testing mediumship accuracy with a triple-blind protocol (F1000Research – 2021)
• Dehumanization and burden of care among caregivers of terminally ill patients (Health Psychology Research – 2021)
• “Imagine you have ALS”: Death education to prepare for advance treatment directives (Behavioral Sciences – 2021)
• Improving dignity of care in community-dwelling elderly patients with cognitive decline and their caregivers. The role of dignity therapy (Behavioral Sciences – 2020)
• A gender-sensitive intervention in jail: A study of italian men convicted of assaulting women or femicide (Arts in Psychotherapy – 2020)
• A challenge for palliative psychology: Freedom of choice at the end of life among the attitudes of physicians and nurses (Behavioral Sciences – 2020)
• The hospice as a learning environment: A follow-up study with a palliative care team (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health – 2020)
• The endless grief in waiting: A qualitative study of the relationship between ambiguous loss and anticipatory mourning amongst the relatives of missing persons in italy (Behavioral Sciences – 2020)
• Features of intellectual functions inhibition among ukrainian boxers: A sociocultural study (European Journal of Mental Health – 2020)
• Loss of close relationships and loss of religious belonging as cumulative ostracism: From social death to social resurrection (Behavioral Sciences – 2020)
• The value of dignity in prison: A qualitative study with life convicts (Behavioral Sciences – 2020)
• Lack of truth-telling in palliative care and its effects among nurses and nursing students (Behavioral Sciences – 2020)
• Burnout, reasons for living and dehumanisation among italian penitentiary police officers (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health – 2020)
• Neither God nor others: A qualitative study of strategies for avoiding suicide among homeless people (Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy – 2020)
• Enhancing existential thinking through death education: A qualitative study among high school students (Behavioral Sciences – 2020)
• Grieving those who still live: Loss experienced by parents of transgender children (Sciendo 2019)
• Solastalgia’s mourning and the slowly evolving effect of asbestos pollution: A qualitative study in italy (Heliyon – 2019)
• Phenomenology of agony: A qualitative study about the experience of agony phenomenon in relatives of dying patients (Annals of Palliative Medicine – 2019)
• Pet humanisation and related grief: Development and validation of a structured questionnaire instrument to evaluate grief in people who have lost a companion dog (Animals – 2019)
• Pet grief: Tools to assess owners’ bereavement and veterinary communication skills (Animals – 2019)
• The implicit soul: Factors between the representation of death and dehumanization of patients (Health Psychology Open – 2019)
• Death education and the management of fear of death via photo-voice: An experience among undergraduate students (Journal of Loss and Trauma – 2019)
• Addiction and religiosity in facing suicide: A qualitative study on meaning of life and death among homeless people (Mental Illness – 2018)
• On the way of liberation from suffering and pain: Role of hypnosis in palliative care (Annals of Palliative Medicine – 2018)
• Ambivalent trust and ontological representations of death as latent factors of religiosity (Cogent Psychology – 2018)
• Representations of death among italian vegetarians: An ethnographic research on environment, disgust and transcendence (Europe’s Journal of Psychology – 2017)
• Courage and representations of death in patients who are waiting for a liver transplantation (Cogent Psychology – 2017)
• The implicit image of God: God as reality and psychological well-being (Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion – 2016)
• The “sick-lit” question and the death education answer. Papageno versus werther effects in adolescent suicide prevention (Human Affairs – 2016)
• Life at all costs? italian social representations of end-of-life decisions after president napolitano’s speech – margin notes on withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration (Nutritional Therapy and Metabolism – 2014)

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