00867 - Psychiatry

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Speech and Language Therapy (cod. 8478)

Learning outcomes

Objective of the course is to provide knowledge on the mental disorders and in particular presentation, diagnosis, and treatment.

Course contents

Epidemiology of mental disorder. Diagnostic criteria in psychiatry.

Patient assessment.

Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.

Mood disorders.

Anxiety and somatoform disorders.

Personality disorders. 

Eating disorders.

Suicide and deliberate self-harm.

Organic psychiatric disorders (delirium and dementias).

Mental disorders in the elderly.

Substance misuse.

Treatments in Psychiatry: psychotropic drugs, psychotherapies.

Psychiatric care in Italy. Organization and laws.

Readings/Bibliography

N.L. Burton. Psychiatry (second edition). Wiley-Blackwell 2010.

Teaching methods

Traditional classes
Teacher-led discussion on clinical cases

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Office hours

See the website of Marco Menchetti