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PSICHIATRIA, PSICOLOGIA CLINICA E NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE - channel 2

Teaching Staff

ANTONINO PETRALIA - Module PSICHIATRIA - MED/25 - 4 CFU
PIETRO SMIRNI - Module PSICOLOGIA CLINICA - M-PSI/08 - 1 CFU
RENATA RIZZO - Module Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psichiatry - MED/39 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• PSICHIATRIA
  

  Providing the fundamental concepts of psychiatry with particular reference to the description of the clinic and therapy of major psychiatric disorders;

  Providing information on psychiatric legislation and on the main risk factors of self and other- directed aggression

• Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psichiatry
  

  Knowing the basics of mental illness with early onset in childhood and adolescence and their course in adulthood.

Course Structure

• PSICHIATRIA
  

  frontal learning

• Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psichiatry
  

  lessons ad internship

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Detailed Course Content

• PSICHIATRIA
  

  Psychiatric semeiotics: aspect, motor activity, facial expressions, language, behavior, psychiatric history

  Psychopathology: attention, consciousness, memory, perception, thinking and affectivity, aggressive and violent behavior, will, and psychomotor activities, intelligence

  Classification of Psychiatric disorders: ICD, DSM

  Clinical pictures, Diagnosis, Differential diagnosis, course, therapy of:

  Neurocognitive disorders, Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders, Bipolar and Related Disorders, Depressive Disorders, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders, Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders, Dissociative disorders, Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders, Personality disorders

   

  Psychiatric legislation

   

  Psychopharmacotherapy: drugs used in therapy of anxiety, depression, psychosis, neuro cognitive impairment, mood stabilizers

• Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psichiatry
  

  Psychomotor development • Mental delay • Learning Disorders: dysgraphia, dyslexia, dyscalculia, learning disorder not otherwise specified • Communication disorders: Disorder of speech, expression and disorder mixed receptive language, speech disorder, stuttering, communication disorder not otherwise specified •Autism spetrum disorder,, Rett syndrome,• Attention Deficit Disorder / Hyperactivity • Tic Disorders: Tourette syndrome, transient tic disorder, chronic motor tics or vocal • Obsessive compulsive disorder • Anxiety disorders • Mood Disorders • Eating disorders: Anorexia, Bulimia • Enuresis • epilepsies • cerebral palsy microcephaly

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Textbook Information

• PSICHIATRIA
  

  1) Cent'anni di psicopatologia generale di Karl Jaspers, A cura di G. Stanghellini e T. Fuchs. L'asino D'Oro, ed. 2016

  2) Elementi di psichiatria III edizione. F. Bogetto, G. Maina, U. Albert Minerva Medica, Ed. 2015

• Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psichiatry
  

  R. Militerni “Neuropsichiatria Infantile” Eds Idelson Gnocchi
  DSM-V “Manuale Diagnostico e Statistico dei Disturbi Mentali” APA

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