00867 - Psychiatry

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Moduli: Domenico Berardi (Modulo 1) Marco Menchetti (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Sciences of Behaviour and Social Relations (cod. 0988)

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student: a) is able to analyze the interaction of bio-psycho-socio-environmental factors in relation to health and mental health; b) knows clinical and diagnostic tools in order to assess psychological distress and mental disorder; c) knows / uses the techniques for designing therapeutic treatment.

Course contents

Psychology and Psychopathology

  • Evolution of psychiatry as a scientific discipline

  • The bio-psycho-socio-environmental model

  • Epidemiology and psychopathology

  • Principles and foundations of psychodynamic psychiatry

  • Methods of psychodynamic psychiatry

  • Mental health promotion

  • P rocesses, reactions, disorder and disease in psychiatry

  • Semiology

  • General Psychopathology

  • Emotional dysregulation

 

Mental disorders

  • Clinical interview , medical examination and mental tests

  • Fear and anxiety disorders

  • Sadness and mood disorders

  • Personality disorders

  • The psychotic disorders

  • Voluntary and compulsory treatments

 

Mental health policy

  • Italian psychiatric assistance law

  • Mental health department and the psychologist activities

Office hours

See the website of Domenico Berardi

See the website of Marco Menchetti