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PSICHIATRIA, PSICOLOGIA CLINICA E NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE - channel 1

Teaching Staff

EUGENIO AGUGLIA - Module PSYCHIATRY - MED/25 - 4 CFU
RENATA RIZZO - Module NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE - MED/09 - 2 CFU
GIOVANNI LO CASTRO - Module Clinycal Psychology - M-PSI/08 - 1 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• PSYCHIATRY
  

  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.

• NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE
  

  Knowing the basics of mental and psychiatric illness with early in childhood and adolescence.

• Clinycal Psychology
  

  Accompany the elaboration of a basic vision and innovative of the fundamental questions in the clinic, in particular those pertaining to human construction. The general premise of the development of a subject "normal", with particular reference to the sexual differentiation and the relationship with the parental figures. Particular attention is paid to the social dynamics, to changes in the value system and the relationship between this and the contemporary psychopathology border.

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Detailed Course Content

• PSYCHIATRY
  

  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

• NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE
  

  Psychomotor development • Neurological examination of infants and preterm 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 • Enuresis • febril seizures • cerebral palsy microcephaly. Epilepsy. Neurocutaneus syndrome.

• Clinycal Psychology
  

  The history and origins of mental health problems, from a perspective that looks at the human being as a result of the social system as a whole. The function of the mother and the father's role in the development process. Neurosis, psychosis and perversion: diagnosis and guidelines in the therapeutic relationship. Transference and countertransference. The diagnosis of the main manifestations of mental suffering.

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Textbook Information

• PSYCHIATRY
  

  Psicopatologia e Clinica Psichiatrica (a cura di) G.B. Cassano, E. Tundo, UTET ed., Torino, 2007.

• NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE
  

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

  Neurologia pediatrica di LorenzoPavone, Martino Ruggeri. Seconda Edizione (Masson)

• Clinycal Psychology
  

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

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