Psychiatric and neurological sciences 3
Module psychiatry

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: Antonino PETRALIA

Expected Learning Outcomes

Provide basic concepts of psychiatry with particular attention to the description of the clinic and the major psychiatric disorders.

The Role of the nurse in the therapeutic management and the rehabilitation of the patient. Identification and management of risk factors and self aggressiveness and towards others of the psychotic patient.

Course Structure

Frontal lesson

clinical cases

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Attendance of Lessons

mandatory attendance

Detailed Course Content

Psychiatric semeiotics: appearance, motor activity, facial expressions, language, behavior,psychiatric history.
Psychopathology: attention, consciousness, memory, perception, thought, emotion, aggressive or violent behavior, will, and psychomotor activities, intelligence.
The classification of mental disorders: DSM-5 and ICD-11.

Textbook Information

A. Favaro, F. Sambataro: Manuale di Psichiatria, Piccin ed, 2021

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1Depression, Bipolarizzazioni disorder, schizofrenia, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, forensic psychiatry
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