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PSICHIATRIA, PSICOLOGIA CLINICA E NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE - channel 2

Teaching Staff

ANTONINO PETRALIA - Module Psychiatry - MED/25 - 4 CFU
GIOVANNI LO CASTRO - Module clinical psychology - M-PSI/08 - 1 CFU
RENATA RIZZO - Module NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE - MED/39 - 2 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

• clinical 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.

• NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE
  

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

Course Structure

• clinical psychology
  

  frontal learning

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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

• clinical 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.

• 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.

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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

• clinical 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

• 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)

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