CLINIC AND PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT OF PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS
cod. 1011346

Academic year 2024/25
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Matteo TONNA
Academic discipline
Psichiatria (MED/25)
Field
Scienze dell'educazione professionale sanitaria
Type of training activity
Characterising
16 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Integrated course unit module: Psychiatry and Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Learning objectives

The course is aimed to make the students able to recognize people with psychotic disorders, to make an adequate project of care and of psycho-social rehabilitation.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

The first part of the classes will address the fundamental principles of psychopathology such as alterations of consciousness, attention, memory, perception, thought, instinct, affect, volition.
The second part of the classes will address the principal psychotic disorders: schizophrenia, paranoia, paraphrenia, acute psychoses.
The third part of the classes will address the fundamental principles of treatment of psychotic disorders (pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy).
The fourth part of the classes will address the organization of the Department of Mental Health

Full programme

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Bibliography

PSICOPATOLOGIA E CLINICA PSICHIATRICA- CASSANO-TUNDO - UTET 2006

P. SARTESCHI, C. MAGGINI, Ed.SBM Noceto (PR): MANUALE DI PSICHIATRIA

Teaching methods

Lessons and attendance of services of Department of Mental Health.

Assessment methods and criteria

In progress evaluation isn't scheduled.
The final examination consists in a multiple choice test with 60 questions, concerning the program of the course. The time available is 90 min. The exam has a positive result if the student gives the correct answers to at least 36 questions. The final result depends on the number of the correct answers above the cut-off.
The final examination evaluates the student's knowledge, acquired during the study, about the ability to recognize psychotic disorders, to plan an adequate program of care and rehabilitation project.

Other information

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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