Psychology Clinic
Beneficiaries and Spectrum of disorders
The clinic provides mental health services to children aged 2 to 18 years old. The spectrums of disorders that will be diagnosed and treated in the clinic are according to the DSM V published in 2013 and include:
| Learning Disorders |
Reading disorder |
| Motor skills disorders | Developmental coordination disorder Stereotypic Movement Disorder |
| Communication disorders |
Language Disorder
Speech Sound Disorder
Childhood-Onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering)
Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder
|
| Autism Spectrum Disorder | Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder | Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder |
| Disruptive behavior disorders | Oppositional Defiant Disorder Conduct Disorder |
| Other disorders of infancy, childhood, or adolescence |
Separation anxiety disorder
Selective mutism
Reactive attachment disorder of infancy or early childhood
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Goals and Objectives
The general goal of the unit is to support the service users and those involved with them to describe their experiences in such a way as to identify their strengths and formulate their needs.
The mental Health unit specific objectives are to provide the followings:
- Early detection services,
- Complete clinical assessment and clinical diagnosis,
- Structuring the individual educational plan,
- Psycho education for patients and their family,
- Home visits for patients and their families,
- Connecting the patients with social network and community resources,
- Training and clinical supervision for specialists and centers
- Sharing in and supporting research through expertise and professionalism
Rehabilitation and Therapy
The planned rehabilitation and therapies for the previous learning and developmental disorders are:
Psychomotor rehabilitation: stimulate the balanced development of the child's potentials; improve relational skills and social adjustment
- Speech therapy: improve communication and the symbolic expression skills, favor a balanced development of metalinguistic skills, facilitate reading and spelling, introduce patients to augmentative communication (including also computerized devices)
- Occupational Therapy: improve practical, perceptive and graphomotor skills. Projects are personalized according to the patient's pathology, skills and aptitude
- Neuropsychological rehabilitation: improvement of logic-perceptual skills, spatial orientation, application of memory and learning strategies
- Psychotherapy: give assistance for a greater adjustment of the minor child in the family and the community by enhancing their emotional and relational balance
- Psycho-educational therapy: improvement of relationship, communication and cognitive skills, facilitate collaboration between educators, social workers and teachers in order to improve child integration in society and school
Clinic working time: Saturday to Wednesday from 9:00 until 16:00