Teaching code

4S00732

Credits

6

Coordinator

Mirella Ruggeri

Language

Italian

Location

VERONA

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

MED/25 - PSYCHIATRY

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

Obiettivi formativi (in lingua inglese)

• General knowledge of the cultural, historical, scientific and normative development of psychiatry, including contributions from recent epidemiological data.
• General knowledge of the classification of mental disorders, on etiopathogenetic models (biological, social and psychological ones), and on prognosis.
• General knowledge of semiotics, psichopathology, of the classification of mental disorders, of personality disorders and of comorbidity, of substance use disorders and of eating disorders.
• General knowledge of normative and organizational aspects of psychiatry and community mental health: multiprofessional team-work and psycho-social approach.
• General knowledge of the main psychotherapeutic approaches and schools, and competencies in identifying the appropriate approach, sorting patients with respect to efficacy, duration and cost-effectiveness of different psychotherapies.
• Awareness of the intrinsic psychotherapeutic attitudes of the doctor-patient relationship tp foster adherence to treatment.
• Identifying conditions that indicate a referral to a psychotherapist.
• Competencies in appropriate referral of the patients to different facilities of the community mental health service.
• Skills in assessing those conditions that call for an involuntary commitment (Trattamento Sanitario Obbligatorio – TSO).

Program

Programma (in lingua inglese)
What is Psychiatry: an introductory presentation
Classification of mental disorders
General Psychopathology
Schizophrenia & other psychoses: epidemiology and clinic
Schizophrenia & other psychoses: course and outcome
Schizophrenia: pharmacotherapy
Depressive Disorders
Bipolar disorder
Suicide
Affective Disorders: Pharmacotherapy
Personality Disorders: classification and clinic
Strategies for psychological interventions
Alcohol and Substances of Abuse
Consultative Psychiatry
Eating disorders
Somatoform Disorders
Anxiety Disorders: an overview
Stress-related disorders
Organic Mental Disorders
Anxiety Disorders: Pharmacotherapy
Prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in psychiatry
GP: mental disorders in basic medicine
Psychiatric Epidemiology
GP (or other theme)

Bibliography

Examination Methods

THE EXAM WILL BE CARRIED OUT ORAL AND IN PRESENCE, UNLESS CONDITIONS RELATED TO THE CONTAGION THAT MAKE THE PRESENCE IMPOSSIBLE