The Master in “Prevention and interventionstrategies in traumatic experiences”, coordi-nated by prof. Massimo Ammaniti, has been es-tablished taking into account the increasingnumber of stressful and traumatic experiencesto which the individual and the communityface. In this sense, the most recent epidemiolog-ical research has revealed that the percentageof the general population who have experi-enced traumatic events is quite high, rangingfrom 40% to 75%.

The students of the Master, through theoreticaland practical experience will explore the con-cept of trauma seen as an event that is gener-ally outside normal human experience and thatposes a threat to the physical integrity of selfand others; this definition highlights as the termtrauma should be considered an objective andidentifiable event (accident, physical violence,sexual abuse, diseases), which refers to generalstressful an/or negative experiences. A specificknowledge will be gained on the possible linkbetween having experienced traumatic expe-riences and the psychopathological symptoms,

whereas in 70% of traumatic events do notcause lasting symptoms. However, it was alsoestimated that 30% of cases the immediate andlong-term consequences of maltreatment,abuse and other traumatic experiences (likebeing involved in natural disasters and situa-tions of violence) lead the post-traumatic stressdisorder.Therefore, a specific area of learning shall be es-tablished on how to respond to stressful and /or traumatic experiences, which must be as-sessed within a complex network of variables:presence / absence of specific events, objectivecharacteristics of events (duration, frequencyand intensity), individual perception and inter-pretation of such experiences.Through the acquisition of competences on psy-chodynamic and neuro-cognitive most recent lit-erature, students will reflect on empiricalevidence that in individuals who are victims oftrauma several interferences occur in differentareas related to: attachment, biological function-ing, emotional adjustment, dissociative experi-ences, behavioral control, cognitive functioning,and finally the concept of Self.

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Students will acquire specific skills on individ-ual symptoms, investigating the alteration ofneurobiological processes related to stimuladiscrimination and physical disorders whichare intrinsically linked to the inability toprocess the event. Much attention will be de-voted to intervention in traumatic situations,with specific reference to learning methodolo-gies and practices area of social intervention.The Master, through joint teaching dividedinto four modules, will enable students to ex-tend the theoretical and practical knowledgeof the potential traumatic experiences andtheir effect as well as possible areas of inter-vention.

Aims The aims of the Telematic Master “Preventionand intervention strategies in traumatic expe-riences” is to provide theoretical and appliedskills to assess the traumatic situations andplan possible interventions aimed at the indi-vidual and to the socio-cultural affiliation. Theinterdisciplinary nature of didactic schedulerises from the necessity of enhancing theknowledge of national and international liter-ature in clinical, dynamic, neurobiological, so-cial fields and its applications in traumaticcontexts.

The Master has the followingspecific aims:

1) to assess individual and social capacity tocope with traumatic events;

2) to intervene through skills empowerment inaddressing individual and social traumaticexperiences;

3) to intervene through structuring a socialnetwork to respond to emergency situations;

4) to intervene through the planning of targetedinterventions in relation to specific populationsand cultures of origin.

End-users and RequirementsThe Master is open to three-year and five-yeargraduates from all disciplines and practitionersof the helping professions (doctors, psycholo-gists, social workers, operators, police, banks,rescue units, nurses etc.. ) who want to explorethe issue of assessment and intervention in trau-matic situations. A good knowledge of Englishlanguage is required.

Educational structure The Master has a duration of one academicyear and is divided into video-lectures, semi-nars, tutorials, chat forums, virtual classrooms,labs (areas: child abuse, bullying, natural dis-asters, social violence and on women, immi-grants, refugees, robberies in banks orelsewhere, burn-out of operators), commentaryby sound recordings and video recordings, su-pervision meetings, focus groups, tutoring, bib-liography and scientific journal articles.

The Master is divided into four interdisci-plinary modules of three months each.

The first module “NATURE OF TRAUMATICEXPERIENCES AND ATTACHMENT” is intendedto provide specific training on the concept oftrauma, risk and protective factors in child-hood, adolescence and adulthood, on thePost-traumatic Stress Disorder and its epidemi-ology, the complex relationship betweentrauma and attachment systems, on issues ofabuse and maltreatment and on neurobiolog-ical and genetic-related related to trauma.

The second module “CLINICAL ASSESSMENTAND ASSESSMENT TOOLS ON TRAUMATICEXPERIENCES” offers specific training on per-sonality assessment in traumatic situations,evaluation tools, with particular reference toself-report questionnaires and interviews onclinical interview and assessment of the conse-quences on people who survived the torture,victims of terrorism, natural disasters and offersan interesting perspective on the traumaticconsequences for the child experiences in ma-ternal depressive framework.

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The third module “PROGRAMS AND MODELS OFINTERVENTION IN TRAUMATIC SITUATIONS” isintended to provide skills in intervention, ad-dressing situations of natural disasters, social vi-olence, work with refugees and the specificcontext of eating disorders in childhood trauma.Special attention is given to treatment withEMDR, a specific technique internationallyused, which has interesting theoretical implica-tions and applications.

The last module “SOCIAL INTERVENTION INTRAUMATIC SITUATIONS: HUMAN RIGHTS ANDTHE PRINCIPLES OF SOLIDARITY” aims to givestudents the theoretical and practical tools tounderstand the management of interventionsaimed at communities, with special reference toissues of social exclusion, discrimination andcultures at risk.

Each module provides a number of tutors andprofessors, national and international experts.For each of the four modules that structure theplanned schedule of the Master verifications oneducational content learned are provided. Toachieve the final certification (to be issued bythe International Telematic “Uninettuno”) a finalthesis on a topic agreed with tutors in required.

DidacticsTeaching is provided via the Internet, in the“Master” section of the portal www.uninet-tunouniversity.net, the first portal in the worldwhich teach in four languages: Italian, English,French and Arabic.

The psycho-pedagogical modeladopted makes concretethe passage: � From the centrality of teaching to the central-

ity of the student, � From knowledge transmission to knowledge

building, � From a passive learning to active and com-

petitive and collaborative learning,� Students participate actively in their learning

process and have the opportunity to studyanytime, anywhere.

� The students, are supported in their trainingby a system of online-tutoring that can facil-itate learning and communication networksand to provide tools to address successfullythe study subject.

The On-Line Tutoring is organized into classes ofstudents with an advanced agenda to recog-nize the individual user, and then customizeand get the tracking learning activities and thequantitative and qualitative assessment of thelearning process of each student.

MODULE ITYPOLOGIES OF TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES AND ATTACHMENT

�Historical evolution of the concept of trauma Prof. Massimo Ammaniti� Traumatic experiences and mental functioning� The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder / PTSD)

� Trauma and function of attachment systems Prof.ssa Anna Maria Speranza� Intergenerational transmission of trauma� Trauma, Attachment and psychopathology �Attachment disorders

�Assessment of trauma in children Prof. Giampaolo Nicolais� Trauma in children: impacts and resilience�Memory of trauma in children� The diagnosis of childhood trauma in abuse� Tools to diagnose the intergenerational trauma

� The common psychological sequelae of trauma Prof.ssa Emanuela Mundo� Traumatic memories and dissociation� The common psychopathological sequelae of trauma � The common neurobiological sequelae of trauma�Structures and brain functions involved in traumatic damage

� The role played by genetic and environmental factors in the response to stress Prof. ssa Alessandra FrigerioPart I

� The role played by genetic and environmental factors in response to stressPart II

�Structural and functional methodologies Prof. Marco Paganiof neuroimaging in psychiatry

�Neuroimaging in post-traumatic stress syndrome�Neurobiology of PTSD �Neurobiology of medication and neuropsychological treatment in PTSD� Functional and structural PTSD - methodology and practical applications

MODULE IICLINICAL EVALUATION AND SURVEY INSTRUMENTS IN THE AREA OF TRAUMA

�Assessment of personality: psychopathology and PTSD resources Prof. Andrea Fontana�PTSD: criteria and assessment� Evaluation criteria and assessment of defense mechanisms� Trauma and Dissociation

� Trauma and Assessment: theoretical and diagnostic framework Prof. ssa Michela Petrocchi�Assessment of trauma in children: new perspectives� Evaluation of post traumatic symptoms in childhood � Trauma ana adolescence: theoretical and diagnostic framework�Assessment of post traumatic symptoms in adolescence � The assessment of PTSD in adulthood�Use self-report questionnaires in assessing�Methodologies and research: the mistreatment�Assessment of post-traumatic symptoms: online resources

Master Modules�Presentation of Master Prof. Massimo Ammaniti

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�Assessment alexithymia and dissociation Prof. Giuseppe Craparo�Affective dysregulation and Trauma

� Evaluation of post traumatic reactions Prof. Giampaolo Nicolaisin populations affected by terrorism and natural disasters

�Children, disasters, assessment and intervention � Treatment in patients who survived the torture

� The influence of postnatal depression on the mother child Prof.ssa Lynne Murrayrelationship and child development

� Interventions for postnatal depression, mother-infantinteractions and child development

MODULE IIIPROGRAMMI E MODELLI DI INTERVENTO NELLE SITUAZIONI TRAUMATICHE

�New perspectives on healing a violent world Prof. Richard Mollica� The essential role of mental health to global health policies and practice�Policies and practices

� The specific consequences of trauma Prof. Riccardo Williams� Trauma and personality development � The dissociation in clinical �Models of traumatic relationship� Identity development in trauma

�Acute critical incident intervention Prof. Roger Solomon�Phases of emotional recovery and coping� Trauma and support interventions�Phase appropriate interventions � Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)

�Refugees and asylum seekers: an analysis of the phenomenon Prof.ssa Silvia Andreassi� The psychological assessment in asylum seekers�Specificity of the Assessment in psychological asylum seekers

�Posttraumatic feeding disorder - Part 1 Prof.ssa Irene Chatoor�Posttraumatic feeding disorder - Part 2 Interventions

MODULE IVSOCIAL INTERVENTION IN TRAUMATIC SITUATION: HUMAN RIGHTSAND THE PRINCIPLES OF SOLIDARITY

�Social exclusion and poverty of culture Prof. Aldo Morrone�Gender Equality � Fight against racism and discrimination

�Serve with the reality of minorities in the era of globalization Prof. Paolo Cianconi� Immigration �Discomfort of migration�Disorders of migration�Victims of torture, refugees, trading, PTSD, trauma associated with PTSD� Therapy in minorities at risk of collapse of identity

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How to studyStudents must follow all the activities includedin Cyberspace teaching.

The Didactic CyberspaceThe didactic activity on the Internet unfolds in theWeb-based macro-area, called the Didactic Cy-berspace.In the Didactic Cy-berspace thelearning and de-v e l o p m e n tprocess is imple-mented and ac-cess profiles arediversified throughcustomized loginsand passwordsbased on the threedifferent rolesplayed by the ac-tors of the learningprocess: Professors,Tutors and Stu-dents. These threecategories of users can edit or replace trainingmaterials and add new ones for the whole coursedelivery period, whereas the student has at hisdisposal an area where he can enter data, infor-mation and personal notes.

The student can access:� the Page of the Appointed Teaching Professor� the Page of the Tutor.

On these pages there are the Learn-ing Environments where is possibleto access:Didactic Materials which represent the coursecontents: digitized video lessons including bookmarks al-lowing for hypertextual and multimedia linkingto books, selected bibliographical references,texts of the exercises, lists of selected websites.

The system of dynamic bookmarks gives the In-ternet-based video lessons a hypertextual char-acter allowing different levels of navigation:from one lesson to the other one, among sub-jects of a single lesson, between the materialsreferring to the same subject.

Distance Tutoring:

the students en-rolled in the Mas-ter’s course will beassisted in everystep of their studypath by TelematicProfessors-Tutors.The TelematiacProfessor-Tutor,represents a guideas well as a con-stant presencealong the Learn-ing Process.

The distance Tutoring activities may be carriedout in two ways:� in a synchronic manner, by using chats,

videochats, video and audio-conferencing,implemented in the Didactic Cyberspace,but also the three-dimensional classroom cre-ated on the UTIU Island of knowledge on Sec-ond Life.

� in a diachronic manner, through tools suchas e-mail and discussion forums on the In-ternet. The discussion forums, related to thetopics of a given teaching subject, enableto enlarge dialogue and trigger a collabo-rative learning and give the opportunity forautonomous thinking on the issue being dis-cussed and on the study activities carriedon.

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Massimo Ammaniti (Professore alla “Sapienza” Università di Romae Docente UTIU) tiene una lezione per il Master dell’UTIU.

The virtual classroomin UNINETTUNO Island ofKnowledge on Second LifeOn UNINETTUNO (International TelematicUniversity) Island of Knowledge we realised a 3DAuditorium devoted to the Master’s course. In thisenvironment the students and professors/tutors’avatars interact in the three-dimensional world ofUNINETTUNO by their voice. Practice work, assess-ment tests andvideoconferencesas well as real-time practice ac-tivities guided bythe professors/tu-tors’ avatars.In the virtualclassroom of Sec-ond Life on theUNINETTUNO Is-land of Knowl-edge the studentsand the profes-sors/tutors teachand learn in acollaborative andcooperative way; they build and share knowl-edge with people belonging to different political,cultural and religious settings, they dialogue, cul-tural differences are confronted, socializationprocesses are implemented as well as the cre-ation of new knowledge.

How to enrollYou can enroll directly on the Internet sitethrough the: Administrative Secretariat filling inthe specific online form and paying the relativefees by credit card or bank transfer. The onlineadministrative form manages all administrationactivities related to the student’s career. The Sec-retariat will acknowledge enrolment sending ane-mail including matriculation number, User IDand Password.

EnrolmentfeesThe enrolment feesfor the Master are3000 euros. It is pos-sibile to enrol inspecific muduleswith a cost of 800euros for a singlemodule.

Educational assistance for any information contact the Facultyof Psychology:presidenza.psicologia@uninettunouniversity.nettelefono: 06.69207690

Richard Mollica (M.D., Professor, Harvard Medical School)tiene una lezione per il Master dell’UTIU.

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PROF. MASSIMO AMMANITIProfessor of Dynamic Psychology“Sapienza” University of Rome

PROF. SILVIA ANDREASSIProfessor of Clinical Psychology,“Sapienza” University of Rome

PROF. IRENE CHATOORProfessor of Psychiatry and PediatricsThe George Washington Universityand Children’sNational Medical Center Washington, DC

PROF. PAOLO CIANCONIEthno-psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, AnthropologistRegina Coeli, RMA

PROF. GIUSEPPE CRAPAROAssistant Professor of Social PsychologyUniversity of Kore, Enna

PROF. ANDREA FONTANPhD, Adjunct Professor,“Sapienza” University of Rome

PROF. ALESSANDRO FRIGERIOPhD, University College London, Researcher,Scientific Institute “E. Medea,La Nostra Famiglia”,Bosisio Parini

PROF. RICHARD MOLLICAMD, Professor, Harvard Medical School

PROF. ALDO MORRONEGeneral director of the National Institute for HealthPromotion of the migrant population and the contrast ofthe diseases of poverty (INMP)

PROF. EMANUELA MUNDOProfessor of the School of Specialization in ClinicalPsychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome

PROF. LYNNE MURRAYProfessor, University of Reading, UK

PROF. GIAMPAOLO NICOLAISAssociate Professor of Developmental Psychology,“Sapienza” University of Rome

PROF. MARCO PAGANISenior Researcher, Institute of Cognitive Sciences andTechnologies, CNR

PROF. MICHELA PETROCCHIPh.D., Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology,“Sapienza” University of Rome

PROF. ROGER SOLOMONPsychologist, Psychotherapist, Center for Post-TraumaTherapy and Trauma Education, Finland

PROF. ANNA MARIA SPERANZAAssociate Professor of Dynamic Psychology, “Sapienza”University of Rome

PROF. RICCARDO WILLIAMSResearcher in Dynamic Psychology, “Sapienza” Universityof Rome

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