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PSICHIATRIA, PSICOLOGIA CLINICA E NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE - channel 3

Teaching Staff

ANTONINO PETRALIA - Module Psychiatry - MED/25 - 4 CFU
RITA MARIA ELISA BARONE - Module Child Neuropsychiatry - MED/09 - 2 CFU
TULLIO MICHELE SCRIMALI - Module PSICOLOGIA CLINICA - M-PSI/08 - 1 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• Psychiatry
  

  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 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
  

  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 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
  

  Cento anni di Psicopatologia Generale di Karl Jaspers. G.Stanghellini and T.Fuchs, L’asino d’oro Ed., 2016

  Elementi di Psichiatria, 3rd edition. F. Bogetto, G.Maina, U.Albert, Minerva Medica Ed. 2015

• 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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