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PSICHIATRIA E PSICOLOGIA CLINICA

Academic Year 2020/2021 - 3° Year
Teaching Staff Credit Value: 8
Scientific field
  • MED/25 - Psychiatry
  • M-PSI/08 - Clinical psychology
  • M-PSI/01 - General psychology
Taught classes: 56 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
ENGLISH VERSION

Learning Objectives

  • Psychiatry

    Students will develop and demonstrate knowledge in the following specific areas:

    1. The major theoretical approaches to understanding the patient-doctor relationship;
    2. The biological, genetic, psychological, sociocultural, economic, ethnic, gender, religious/spiritual, sexual orientation, and family factors that significantly influence physical and psychological development throughout the life cycle;
    3. The fundamental principles of the epidemiology, etiologies, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of all major psychiatric disorders in the current standard diagnostic statistical manual, including the biological, psychological, sociocultural, and iatrogenic factors that affect the prevention, incidence, prevalence and long-term course and treatment of psychiatric disorders and conditions;
    4. The use, reliability, and validity of the generally accepted diagnostic techniques, including physical examination of the patient, laboratory testing, imaging, neurophysiologic and neuropsychological testing, and psychological testing
  • Clinical Psychology

    To know principles to clinical psychology

  • General Psychology

    The course presents the link between the theoretical and the methodological levels in psychology and investigates the main areas of general psychology, e.g., attention, perception, memory, personality, thinking, communication, language, emotions.


Course Structure

  • Psychiatry

    The lectures will be frontal, there will also interactive discussions about clinical cases. Mandatory attendance.

    **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.

  • Clinical Psychology

    Frontal lessons, role playing

     

    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.

    Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.

  • General Psychology

    Frontal lessons, case series discussion, role playing, working group

     

    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.

    Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.


Detailed Course Content

  • Psychiatry

    1. Major theoretical approach in Psychiatry

    2. PSYCHIATRIC SEMEIOTICS

    Appearance, Motor activity, Mimic, Language, Behavior, Psychiatric history

    3. Psychopathology

    Attention, Consciousness, Memory, Perception, Thought, Affectivity, aggressive or violent behavior, Intelligence.

    4. CLINIC FEATURES

    a) CLASSIFICATION OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS - DSM 5 (A.P.A.); ICD-10 (O.M.S.)

    b) DEMENTIA, DELIRIUM Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures, Course, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy

    c) RELATED SUBSTANCES: ALCOHOL, AMPHETAMIN, CAFFEINE, CANNABIS, COCAINE, HALLUCINOGENES, INHANTS, NICOTINE, OPPIACEI, PHENICLIDINE, SEDATIVES, HYPNOTICS OR ANSIOLITHICS. Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures, Course, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy

    d) SCHIZOPHRENIA Epidemiology, risk factors and etiopathogenetic hypotheses, symptomatology (initial period, state period, course and outcome), clinical forms, prognosis, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, therapy.

    e) OTHER PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS: Nosography, Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures and forms, Diagnosis, Course, Prognosis, Therapy.

    f) MOOD DISORDERS Epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinical pictures (depressive episode, manic episode Hypomania, mixed states), diagnosis, differential diagnosis, course (unipolar, dysthymic, Bipolar, Cyclothymic, Rapid Cycles, Seasonal Affective), Prognosis, Therapy.

    g) ANXIETY DISORDERS: PANIC ATTAC, AGORAPHOBIA; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SPECIFIC PHOBIA; GENERALIZED ANXIETY; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, ANXIETY DUE TO A GENERAL MEDICAL CONDITION; ANXIETY INDUCED BY SUBSTANCES. Historical and nosographic notes, Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures, Course,

    m) EATING DISORDERS:

    ANOREXIA; BULIMIA, BINGE EATING DISORDERS Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures, Course, differential, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.

    n) PERSONALITY DISORDERS: Diagnosis and diagnosis GROUP A (Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypic); B (Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic); GROUP C (Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive-Compulsive) Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures, Course, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.

    5. TREATMENT a) PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; b) PSYCHOTHERAPY c) SOMATIC THERAPIES d) Psychiatric and psychosocial rehabilitation

    6. ORGANIZATION OF DEPARTMENT of MENTAL HEALTH; MANDATORY MEDICAL TREATMENT

  • Clinical Psychology

    Acquisition of a theory of psychological that allows the use of intervention techniques in the light of a specific theoretical model. Lesson will be proposed in order to develop specific skills for conducting an intervention, with particular reference to the stages that characterize it: observation, exploration, interpretation will be highlight. Integrated management of the main methods of clinical psychology, such as interview, assessment, reporting, analysis of the demand.

    Critical review of the basics of psychological intervention. Contextualization of the major theoretical and operational issues within a clinical psychological approach in the light of an integrated theoretical perspective. Focusing on early intervention. Efficacy and effectiveness.

    Content of the training

    - The different theoretical models in clinical psychology.

    -assessment In clinical psychology.

    -Psychodiagnostic.

    -treatment in clinical psychology.

    -Analysis of psychopathological case series.

  • General Psychology

    The program of the course is aimed to describes the scientific psycology in the context of the philosophy and the physiology of the 1800's.In this frame will come examined in systematic way the history, the theories and the methods of the General Psychology and of the psycology of the personality. Main thematic issues regard: - The history and the historiography of the psycology; - the nomotetic method and the idiografic one; - the epistemology of the psycology of personality; - the clinical method and theories; - The others method of the psychology; - the faculties, the traits and personality; - the phenomenology and cognitivism. The course presents the link between the theoretical and the methodological levels in psychology and investigates the main areas of general psychology, e.g., attention, perception, memory, thinking, communication, language, emotions.


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