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PSICHIATRIA E NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE Nuovo canale 3

Teaching Staff

LUCIANA CREA - Module PSYCHIATRY - MED/25 - 4 CFU
RITA MARIA ELISA BARONE - Module Child Neuropsychiatry - MED/09 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• PSYCHIATRY
  

  The course aims to provide students adequate knowledge and basic skills in the area of psychiatric science. At the end of the course students should: 1) be able to recognize and frame the main psychopathological symptoms; 2) be able to perform a psychiatric interview; 3) know the recent classification of mental illnesses; 4) know the main therapeutic interventions (psychopharmacological, psychotherapeutic, rehabilitative) in psychiatry; 5) have acquired a basic knowledge of psychiatric legislation and of organization of mental healthcare in Italy.

• 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.

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Detailed Course Content

• PSYCHIATRY
  

  
  Clinical psychology

  Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders

  Anxiety Disorders

  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

  Eating disorders

  Substance abuse

  Hysteria Dissociative and somatoform disorders

  Personality Disorders

  Psychotherapies

  Psychogeriatrics

  Schizophrenia

  Pharmacotherapy

  Organization of psychiatric services

  Psychiatric legislation

  Dementia

  Delirium

• 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

• PSYCHIATRY
  

  Elementi di Psichiatria III edizione; Bogetto F.; Maina G.; Albert U. (ed. Minerva Medica)

• 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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