CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Module PSICHIATRIA

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: MARIA SALVINA SIGNORELLI

Expected Learning Outcomes

-  main aspects characterizing the psychic examination and the psychopathological aspects of the personality.

- main diagnostic frameworks in the psychiatric field,

-  differential diagnosys

- psychopharmacological treatments

- psychotherapeutic approaches.

- territorial psychiatric assistance structures.

Course Structure

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.

Detailed Course Content

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

Textbook Information

1) Manuale di psichiatria e psicologia clinica di Giordano Invernizzi,Cinzia Bressi

  Editore: McGraw-Hill Education Collana: Medicina Edizione: 5 Anno edizione: 2017

               

2) Elementi di psichiatria di Filippo Bogetto,Giuseppe Maina,Umberto Albert

Editore: Minerva Medica Anno edizione: 2014

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1Disturbi depressiviElementi di Psichiatria (cap.2)
2Disturbi BipolariElementi di Psichiatria (cap.2)
3Disturbi d'ansiaElementi di psichiatria (cap.3)
4Disturbo Ossessivo CompulsivoElementi di Psichiatria (cap.4)
5Le psicosiElementi di Psichiatria (cap.7)
6Disturbi di personalità e dipendenze Elementi di psichiatria (cap.8-10)
7Deficit cognitivi e psicogeriatria Elementi di psichiatria (cap.11; 15)
8Elementi di psicofarmacologia e organizzazione assistenza psichiatricaElementi di psichiatria (cap.12-13)
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