ENDLIFE Death studies & the end of life for the intervention of support and the accompanying

Il Master in Death Studies & The end of Life for the intervention of support and the accompanying 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 & The end of Life for the intervention of support and the accompanying forma figure professionali quali:

• Esperti che possono collaborare con i servizi per le cure palliative;
• Esperti per i servizi territoriali che utilizzino reti di mutuo auto aiuto e volontariato;
• Esperti per il counselling in tanatologia e accompagnamento per la morte e il morire.

Il corsista acquisisce, infatti, 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 & The End of Life 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.

Le lezioni nell’anno 2024/2025 si sono tenute nei seguenti giorni:

– VENERDÍ, 13 DICEMBRE
– SABATO, 14 DICEMBRE
– VENERDÍ, 17 GENNAIO
– SABATO, 18 GENNAIO
– VENERDÍ, 31 GENNAIO
– SABATO, 1 FEBBRAIO
– VENERDÍ, 14 FEBBRAIO
– SABATO, 15 FEBBRAIO
– VENERDÍ, 28 FEBBRAIO
– SABATO, 1 MARZO
– VENERDÍ, 14 MARZO
– SABATO, 15 MARZO
– VENERDÍ, 28 MARZO
– SABATO, 29 MARZO
– VENERDÍ, 11 APRILE
– SABATO, 12 APRILE
– VENERDÍ, 9 MAGGIO
– SABATO, 10 MAGGIO
– VENERDÍ, 23 MAGGIO
– SABATO, 24 MAGGIO
– VENERDÍ, 6 GIUGNO
– SABATO, 7 GIUGNO
– VENERDÍ, 27 GIUGNO
– SABATO, 28 GIUGNO
– VENERDÍ, 11 LUGLIO
– SABATO, 12 LUGLIO

Cliccare qui per scaricare il calendario a.a. 2024/2025.

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)

La graduatoria generale di merito per l’a.a. 2025/2026 sarà resa disponibile qui secondo le tempistiche previste dal bando ufficiale.