00867 - Psychiatry

Learning outcomes

The Psychiatry course trains students to recognize the main mental disorders and plan an appropriate therapeutic plan. In particular, at the end of the course the students know the fundamentals of the clinical interview, psychopathology and the main psychiatric disorders encountered in the practice of medicine, both in hospital and outpatient settings. They have acquired knowledge on the relationships between internal or surgical pathologies and mental disorders, on psychosomatic medicine and on the problems relating to consultation and liaison psychiatry. Students are able to make a diagnosis of a mental disorder and have basic knowledge in the various specialist sectors of psychiatry, including drug-addiction psychiatry, psychogeriatrics, adolescent psychiatry, eating disorders. From a treatment point of view, students are  able to establish a correct doctor-patient relationship and use psychotropic drugs competently, and knows the introductory elements of psychodynamic psychiatry. Furthermore, the students have acquired knowledge of the legislation of psychiatric interest and the organization of psychiatric care in Italy in order to be able to collaborate with local and hospital specialist services. Finally, the students know the biopsychosocial model applied to mental disorders and the main psychosocial and rehabilitation treatments.

Course contents

PSYCHIC STATUS EXAMINATION

THE CLINICAL INTERVIEW IN PSYCHIATRY

EVALUATION AND DIAGNOSIS IN PSYCHIATRY

CLASSIFICATION OF DISORDERS ACCORDING TO DSM-5

SPECTRUM OF PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS - THE NEUROSOCODEVELOPMENT AND GXE MODELS

SPECTRUM OF MOOD DISORDERS AND ANXIETY DISORDERS - THE BIO PSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL

TRAUMATIC AND STRESSING EVENTS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER

EATING DISORDERS

SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS AND ADDICTION

PERSONALITY DISORDERS

PRACTICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY LEGISLATION AND ORGANIZATION OF PSYCHIATRIC CARE

SELF-HARM AND SUICIDAL BEHAVIORS

TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY

Readings/Bibliography

Sadock BJ, Sadock VA, Ruiz P. Kaplan & Sadock’s Sinossi di Psichiatria. Piccin, 2018.

Tarricone I & Riecher Rossler A, Health and Gender .Resilience and Vulnerability Factors For Women's Health in the Contemporary Society. Springer 2019

Teaching methods

LECTURES, WORK IN SMALL GROUPS FOR CRITICAL REVIEW OF EVIDENCE, CLINICAL CASE STUDIES

Assessment methods

WRITTEN EXAM: 15 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

Teaching tools

POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS, VIDEOS

Office hours

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