The third edition of the Master II level in Clinical Psychomotor Skills across the Lifespan, intended for graduates in psychology (LM-51), registered psychologists, psychotherapists and doctors, would represent an effective solution to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for professionals with specific skills in managing the care of people with psychomotor and relational difficulties, originating from psychological and physical discomfort across the lifespan.
Psychomotricity studies the complexity of development, the body's relationships with the world in its interacting emotional, affective and cognitive components. In particular, starting from early childhood, the body is an element of primary importance, since it allows us to feel, know and relate by experiencing the world and continues to grow throughout life. The child in movement and play tells his story, his present reality and his future aspirations. In the relationship with adults and peers, he undertakes the journey from dependence to autonomy by building the foundations of his personality. Therefore, the experience of physical play promotes a positive intertwining of cognitive, motor, social and creative functions, allowing not only the child but also the adult and the elderly to transform reality, discover their potential and realize their desires. It is necessary to make a difference between psychomotor methodology and psychomotor approach. While the first facilitates the integration of experience data, the psychomotor approach aims to be understood both as a form of prevention of the discomfort that accompanies the arc of life, and as a resource in the growth process, developing the concept of Emotional-Behavioral Map, a personal path in play and movement thanks to which the child, the adult and the elderly progressively learn to transform emotions into moods and feelings, to act correctly in space, in time, with objects and people to independently satisfy the needs of attachment/separation, of gender identity, in order to be able to constitute their own Relational Communicative Model. In the educational context, the value assigned to personal relationships and to the intertwining, often also evident, between the cognitive and emotional components of the various interactions is increasingly central. Therefore, psychomotricity offers, by its nature, a meeting ground between the physical and mental dimensions of the individual and, at a training level, it offers the opportunity to put operators in contact with the emotional physical aspects of the relationship in order to integrate them with the verbal and thought aspects. The training approach of psychomotricity, consequently, stimulates and develops the possibility of grasping, understanding and integrating the various aspects of the person starting from their non-verbal forms of expression up to the integration of the most advanced dynamics of verbal language. The Master in Psychomotricity allows you to work as an expert in psychomotor education in the many contexts in which professionalism is required in the design of development paths of physicality, emotionality and non-verbal communication. The path aims to raise awareness of new communication methods and group management, integrating the acquisition of specific skills in the design and management of psychomotor activity groups both in educational contexts and in geriatric contexts. Finally, it aims to strengthen the mentalizing aspects through the implementation of emotions and interpersonal attitudes, to stimulate and increase the communicative competence of each person, not only through the recognition of non-verbal signals sent and received, but also through "direct experience" and "feeling and expressing the emotional experience of the relationship".
The Master aims to:
- to train the figure of an expert in psychomotor skills, ensuring a wide-ranging theoretical preparation in addition to the acquisition of technical skills that allow for the evaluation and management of psychomotor problems at all ages;
- open up spaces for research and study in the field of psychomotor skills, promoting a multidisciplinary approach to human problems, both in the preventive-educational and diagnostic and clinical fields;
- develop an approach to the person understood in his/her entirety and uniqueness;
- enhance the ability to listen to others and pay attention to the relationship;
- provide operators with reading and intervention tools starting from psychomotor experiences, non-verbal communication and body expression;
- develop knowledge of the correlations between movement/action and profound mobilizations of thought and emotions.
Career opportunities:
Public and private health facilities, such as: clinics, rehabilitation centers, residential centers, day centers, family and pediatric counseling centers, social services;
Educational facilities such as: nursery schools and primary schools of 1st and 2nd level, educational centres, communities, prevention work groups;
Private practice: both as an employee and as a freelancer.
