Psychiatry
General data
Course ID: | 2500-EN_S_13 |
Erasmus code / ISCED: |
14.4
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Course title: | Psychiatry |
Name in Polish: | Psychiatry |
Organizational unit: | Faculty of Psychology |
Course groups: |
specialization courses for 4 and 5 year |
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
(not available)
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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 groups of psychiatric disorders and thus to prepare the students to recognize and differentiate main psychiatric conditions. Emphasis will be placed on clinical approach and practical skills, like when to suspect various conditions, how to ask for specific symptoms in order to facilitate diagnosis and differentiate various conditions, how to maintain good rapport with patients, thus supporting psychiatric treatment as members of mental health team. |
Full description: |
The course will introduce the students into international systems of classification of psychiatric disorders and the evolution of main concepts in psychiatry. 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 symptom 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, a discussion on given clinical examples will help them incorporate obtained knowledge into understanding of the nature of patients’ problems and become more confident in psychiatric evaluation and 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) in discussion is encouraged. Three times during the course they will be asked to prepare a written case study. |
Bibliography: |
Reading: 1/ David Semple, Roger Smyth, Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry, Third Edition, Oxford University Press, 2013 2/ Robert Hales, Stuart Yudofsky, Laura Roberts, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, Sixth Edition (or previous editions, with Glen O. Gabbard as third editor) 3/ ICD-10: The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders: Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines, World Health Organization 4/ Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR, Fourth Edition (Text Revision), American Psychiatric Association 5/ Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, American Psychiatric Association |
Learning outcomes: |
By the end of the course students should: - demonstrate working knowledge of the major concepts and problems of psychiatric conditions - be 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 - be able to recognize specific risk factors and specificity of contact with various groups of patients and of different clinical settings - develop critical thinking about the burden and scope of mental problems in the modern society |
Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
Written case studies (30% - 3 x 10% ) Three times during the course the students will be asked to prepare a written case study based upon a presented material selected from a number of possible ones. Active participation in class discussion - 20% 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 (raising questions, doubts, points of interest) in discussion is encouraged Final test - 15 multiple choice questions, 12 open questions (50%) Attendance rules Two absences are allowed without any consequences, for each absence above the limit (maximum amount is four) the student will be asked to complete a written assignment |
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