Academic Year 2017/2018

  • 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 in the general population, in primary care and in the general hospital. Diagnostic criteria in psychiatry.

Descriptive psychopathology: the signs and symptoms of mental disorders.

Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.

Mood disorders.

Anxiety disorders.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Trauma- and stressor-related disorders.

Somatic symptoms and related disorders.

Psychiatric care in Italy: organization and laws.

Treatments in Psychiatry: psychotropic drugs (antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, sedatives-hypnotics), psychotherapies.

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

Teaching tools

PWP files about the course contents.

Video clinical case presentation.

Office hours

See the website of Marco Menchetti