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PSICHIATRIA, PSICOLOGIA CLINICA E NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE - channel 4

Teaching Staff

ROSARIA ALBA MARIA FURNARI - Module Psychiatry - MED/25 - 4 CFU
MARIA LUISA PISTORIO - Module Psicologia Clinica - M-PSI/08 - 1 CFU
RITA MARIA ELISA BARONE - Module Child Neuropsychiatry - MED/39 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• Psychiatry
  

  Mental illness: diagnosis and treatment

• Psicologia Clinica
  

  The course aims to provide a general overview of the fundamental concepts of Psychology and the psychological aspects of suffering and disease. In particular, the course aims to provide the student with the acquisition of the communication and relational skills necessary to adequately manage the therapeutic relationship and evaluate the symptoms that present themselves on clinical observation, trying to grasp also the underlying existential meaning.

• Child Neuropsychiatry
  

  The course is aimed to introduce the student to understand the physiological trajectories of development in the child with typical development with respect to those observed in children with developmental disabilities.

  The student will acquire competences in the diagnostic procedure of the most common neuropsychiatric disorders in infancy, childhood and adolescence. He will learn about diagnostic criteria, psychometric evaluation and therapy in different childhood neuropsychiatric diseases.

Course Structure

• Psicologia Clinica
  

  Frontal lessons with the aid of slides.

  Please note: 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.

• Child Neuropsychiatry
  

  The course is structured in lessons according to the academic calendar for the course. Frontal lessons followed by an interactive discussion on pertinent clinical cases will be performed.

   

  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.

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Detailed Course Content

• Psicologia Clinica
  

  The history and origins of mental illness, starting from a perspective that looks at the human being as an effect of the social system in its complexity. The function of the mother and the role of the father in the development process. Neurosis, psychosis and perversion: diagnosis and orientations in the therapeutic relationship.

• Child Neuropsychiatry
  

  Neurological examination of the newborn and preterm infant

  The psychomotor development

  Cerebral Palsy

  Floppy infant

  Epilepsy

  Febrile seizures

  Childhood headaches

  Intellectual disability

  Autism Spectrum Disorders

  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Oppositional defiant disturbance, Conduct disorder

  Anxious disturbance

  Tic disorders

  Schizophrenia

  Motor coordination disorders

  Learning disabilities

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Textbook Information

• Psicologia Clinica
  

  1. Zalcberg M. Cosa pretende una figlia dalla propria madre. Ed. Mimesis. 2014
  2. Lolli F. L’epoca dell’inconshow. Dimensione clinica e scenario sociale del fenomeno borderline. Ed. Mimesis, 2012

• Child Neuropsychiatry
  

  Neuropsichiatria Infantile 5/ed. [Militerni - Idelson Gnocchi]

   

  Neurologia pediatrica di Lorenzo Pavone, Martino Ruggieri. Seconda Edizione [Masson]

   

  American Psychiatric Association DSM - 5 Manuale diagnostico e statistico dei disturbi mentali. [Raffaello Cortina Editore , Edizione: V]

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