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Psychiatry

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Course ID:	2500-EN-PS-CS4-01
Erasmus code / ISCED:	14.4 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0313) Psychology The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Psychiatry
Name in Polish:	Psychiatry
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Psychology
Course groups:	(in Polish) Neuropsychology and Neuroscience specialization WISP specialization courses for 4 year WISP specialization courses: Psychotherapy
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	3.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language:	English
Type of course:	elective courses
Short description:	The goal of this course is to present basic concepts and problems of modern psychiatry , introducing principles of epidemiology, etiology, manifestation, course, prognosis and treatment of major psychiatric disorders and thus to prepare the students to recognize and differentiate main psychiatric conditions. Emphasis will be put on clinical approach and practical skills. There will be presented psychiatric symptoms which are crucial to make a proper differential diagnosis. There will be discussed what is a role of mental health specialist, how to maintain good therapeutic contact with patients, thus supporting psychiatric treatment as members of mental health team.
Full description:	The course will introduce the students into psychiatry as a subdivision of modern medicine. Major groups of psychiatric disorders will be discussed in terms of epidemiology, etiological theories and hypotheses, clinical manifestations and categories as well as differential diagnosis, course, prognosis and management of diseases. In each class student will become familiar with most important issues concerning a specific topic. Discussion on presented clinical examples will help incorporate obtained knowledge into understanding the nature of patients problems. Student will learn the psychiatric evaluation and to become more confident in decision making (developing treatment plans, referring patients to specialists, etc.). Students will be asked to prepare for each class by reading specified chapters from literature (assigned from class to class) and to participate actively in seminars. The discussion will be encouraged.
Learning outcomes:	Upon completing this course, a Student ⁃ demonstrates working knowledge of the major concepts of psychiatric disorders ⁃ is able to critically evaluate clinical data in terms of possible diagnosis and to develop treatment plans including the role of psychological methods of assessment and treatment ⁃ is able to recognize specific risk factors and the specificity of contact with various groups of patients ⁃ develops critical thinking about the burden and scope of mental problems in the modern society

Classes in period "Winter semester 2023/24" (past)

Time span:	2023-10-01 - 2024-01-28	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable MO SEM TU W TH FR
Type of class:	Seminar, 30 hours more information
Coordinators:	(unknown)
Group instructors:	Mikołaj Achremczyk
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Course - Grading Seminar - Grading
Full description:	The course will introduce the students into psychiatry as a subdivision of modern medicine, a specialty dealing with diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders. There will be discussed major groups of psychiatric disorders, namely anxiety disorders, affective disorders, eating disorders, sleep disorders, sexual disorders, schizophrenia and related psychoses, disorders due to substance misuse, personality disorders, impulse-control disorders will be discussed in terms of epidemiology, etiological theories and hypotheses, clinical manifestations and categories, differential diagnosis including symptoms overlapping, differentiation with somatic conditions, course, prognosis and management, specific features in different age groups (children and adolescents, elderly patients). In each class students will become familiar with most important issues concerning a specific topic. Discussion on presented clinical examples will help incorporate obtained knowledge into understanding the nature of patients’ problems . Students will learn the psychiatric evaluation and to become more confident in decision-making (developing treatment plans, referring patients to specialist care, etc.). A lecture at the end of the course will be dedicated to additional topics (like transcultural psychiatry, evolutionary perspective in psychiatry, methods of treatment, etc), to an in-depth approach to previously discussed problems or to a trial test – depending on the students’ choice. Students will be asked to prepare for each class by reading specified chapters from the literature (assigned from class to class) and their active participation (questions, doubts). The discussion will be encouraged. Three times during the course students will be asked to prepare a written case study.

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