Unit PSYCHIATRY
- Course
- Assessment of individual functioning in clinical and health psychology
- Study-unit Code
- A001591
- Curriculum
- Curriculum ii
- Teacher
- Alfonso Antonio Vincenzo Tortorella
- Teachers
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- Alfonso Antonio Vincenzo Tortorella
- Hours
- 36 ore - Alfonso Antonio Vincenzo Tortorella
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- MED/25
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- - The diagnostic system in Psychiatry
- The Psychiatric Semiotics
- Clinical Psychiatry
- Neurobiology
- Traslational and precision psychiatry
- Mental Health Legislation and forensic psychiatry
- Psychiatric Services Organization - Reference texts
- Roberto Quartesan (a cura di). Manuale di Psichiatria. Nuova edizione aggiornata al DSM 5. Morlacchi Editore, Perugia, 2014.
American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 5th Edition. American Psychiatric Association. Washington D.C. 2013. Edizione italiana R. Cortina. Milano, 2014.
Sadock BJ, Sadock VA, Ruiz P.: Kaplan & Sadock's Sinossi di Psichiatria.Piccin Editore, Padova, 2018. - Educational objectives
- Introduction:
The essential aim of the teaching is to provide the students with useful concepts to the basic knowledge of the discipline. The most important acquired skills are about:
- The Psychiatric Semiotics (perceptual, thought, memory, attention and mood disorders, disorders of consciousnees, volition and psychomotricity, learning disabilities, personality, temperament and character disorders)
- Clinical Psychiatry (substance-related and addictive disorders, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, depressive disorders, bipolar and related disorders, mental health legislation).
The capability in applying the acquired skills of the student will be examined by the presentation of clinical cases (n. 10). They will be introduced during the teaching and they will focus on basic semiological aspects and differential diagnostic criteria. - Prerequisites
- In order to understand the contents of the teaching and to reach the learning aims, it is necessary to know the base of general psychology.
- Teaching methods
- The teaching is divided into lectures about the above mentioned topics and clinical cases.
- Other information
- Assistance for students with disabilities and/or learning disabilities: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
- Learning verification modality
- The exam is divided into an oral test: a 30 minutes discussion for the assessment of the acquired knowledge of the student.
The test will take in consideration the pertinence of the acquired lexicon. - Extended program
- - The diagnostic system in psychiatry
- The Psychiatric Semiotics
• perceptual,
• thought,
• memory,
• attention,
• mood disorders,
• disorders of consciousnees,
• volition,
• psychomotricity,
• learning disabilities,
• personality, temperament and character.
- Clinical Psychiatry
• Substance-related and Addictive Disorders,
• Schizophrenia spectrum and other Psychotic Disorders,
• Depressive Disorders,
• Bipolar and Related Disorders,
• Anxiety disorder,
• Somatic symptom disorders,
• Feeding and Eating Disorders,
• Personality Disorders,
• Trauma-related disorders,
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
• suicidal risk and suicidal behavior.
- Mental health legislation and forensic psychiatry.
- Psychiatric services organization.