Knowledge of personality psychopathology aspects, learning of psychiatric pathologies with skill of differential diagnostic and setting of therapeutic programmes, psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic, knowledge of organizational mode of territorial mental health care. Principles of forensic psychiatry.
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.
1. MAIN THEORETICAL REFERENCES IN PSYCHIATRY
2. PSYCHIATRIC SEMEIOTICS:
Appearance, motor activity, mime , speech, behaviour, psychiatric History.
3. PSYCHOPATHOLOGY:
Attention, Memory, Consciousness, Perception, Thought, Affectivity, aggressive or violent Conduct, Will, Activity and Psychomotricity, Intelligence.
4. CLINIC
a) CLASSIFICATION of PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS – DSM IV-TR (A.P.A.); The ICD-10 (O.M.S.)
b) DEMENTIA, DELIRIUM:
Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical history, Clinical Progress, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.
c) SUBSTANCES RELATED DISORDERS:
ALCOHOL, AMPHETAMINES, CAFFEINE, CANNABIS, COCAINE, HALLUCINOGENS, INHALANTS, PHENCYCLIDINE, OPIATES, NICOTINE, SEDATIVES, HYPNOTICS AND ANXIOLYTICS.
Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical History, Clinical Progress, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.
d) SCHIZOPHRENIA
Epidemiology, Risk factors and Etiopathogenetic hypothesis, Simptomatology (initial period, state period, course and outcome), Clinical forms, Prognosis, Diagnosis and Differential diagnosis, Therapy.
e) OTHER PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS:
ACUTE AND CHRONIC DELUSIONAL DISORDER.
(Nosography), epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical and clinical forms, diagnosis, Clinical History, Prognosis, therapy.
f) MOOD DISORDERS
Epidemiology, Etiopatogenesis, Clinical pictures (Depressive episode, Manic episode, Hypomania, Mixed States), Course (Sigle-Pole, Bipolar, Distimia), Prognosis, Therapy, Suicide.
g) ANXIETY DISORDERS
Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia; Social Phobia; Specific Phobias; Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Post-traumatic Stress Disorder; Anxiety Disorder related to medical conditions, Anxiety Disorder related to substances abuse.
Historical and Nosographic notes, Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures, Course, Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis, Comorbility, Prognosis, Therapy.
h) SOMATOFORM DISORDERS:
SOMATISATION DISORDER, CONVERSION, PAIN, HYPOCHONDRIA, DYSMORPHIC BODY
Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical History, Clinical Progress, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.
i) DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS:
DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA, DISSOCIATIVE FUGUE, DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY OR MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES, DEPERSONALISATION.
Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical History, Clinical Progress, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.
l) FICTITIOUS DISORDERS:
WITH PREDOMINANT PSYCHIATRIC SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS; WITH PREDOMINANTLY PHYSICAL SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS; WITH PSYCHIC AND PHYSICAL COMBINED SYMPTOMS.
Diagnosis and differential diagnosis; -Forensic psychiatric implications.
m) SEXUAL DISORDERS AND GENDER IDENTITY:
SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; PARAPHILIAS; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDERS
Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical History, Clinical Progress, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.
n) EATING DISORDER:
ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BULIMIA NERVOSA
Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical History, Clinical Progress, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.
o) PERSONALITY DISORDERS:
Group A (Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal);
GROUPB (Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic);
Group C (Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive-compulsive).
Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical History, Clinical Progress, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.
5. THERAPY
a) PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY:
ACTIVE DRUGS IN THE TREATMENT OF ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, PSYCHOSES, COGNITIVE DECLINE; MOOD REGULATORS
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
Psicopatologia e Clinica Psichiatrica (a cura di) G.B. Cassano, E. Tundo, UTET ed., Torino, 2007.
Psichiatria e Psicologia Clinica 4e(a cura di Giordano Invernizi e Cinzia Bressi, McGrew-Hill, Milano2016
Elementi di psichiatria - F. Bogetto, G. Maina, U.Albert, Minerva Medica Ed. Torino 2014
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]