- Docente: Paolo Scudellari
- Credits: 4
- SSD: MED/25
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Paolo Scudellari (Modulo 1) Alessandro Serretti (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Professional education (cod. 8477)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student: - is able to recognize the highly critical "situations" activated by specific psychopathological dynamics, which determine the need for urgent interventions. - is able to recognize the fundamental clinical-psychopathological matrices that feed the risk of acute decompensation. - is able to orient themselves within the diversified types of emergency intervention according to the different operational contexts (the territory, the department, the therapeutic communities, etc.). - knows the role and the technical-operative specificity of the educator with respect to the other figures of the team during situations of failure which require "urgent" intervention.
Course contents
Visit and psychiatric evaluation
Direct psychic examination
Psychometric tests and scales
Elements of psychopathology
Classification of psychiatric disorders
Depressive disorders (categorical and dimensional perspective)
Bipolar Disorders (categorical and dimensional perspective)
Treatment of mood disorders
Anxiety disorders: Specific Phobia, Social Anxiety Disorder, Agoraphobia, Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
Stress Disorders: Acute Stress Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Obsessive-Compulsive disorder and spectrum disorders
Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa.
Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders
Schizophrenia: Epidemiology and Risk Factors, Clinical Frameworks, and Therapy
Other Psychotic Disorders: Delusional Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder
Substance-Related Disorders
Alcohol Related Disorders
Personality Disorders
Psychopharmacological therapies: antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, anxiolytics and hypnoinducants.
Psychotherapy and rehabilitation therapies
Legislation and organization of psychiatric assistance
Mandatory medical treatment
Readings/Bibliography
The educational material, text and slides, will be available at:paolo.scudellari@unibo.it
Teaching methods
frontal lessons and supervision of clinical cases.
Assessment methods
Written exam. The questions are related to all the training points listed in the training program.
Teaching tools
slides and clinical case videos
Office hours
See the website of Paolo Scudellari
See the website of Alessandro Serretti