PSYCHOLOGY AND NURSING IN MENTAL HEALTH Single channel
Chair (Coordinator) and Rapporteur: PAOLO SALOTTI
Module 1: CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
- Activity type
- Scienze interdisciplinari, Scienze umane e psicopedagogiche
- SSD
- M-PSI/08, M-PSI/08
- Year
- 3rd year
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- CFU
- 2
- Hours distribution
- 24 classroom hours
- Lecturers
- PAOLO SALOTTI
Module 2: PSYCHIATRY
- Activity type
- Interdisciplinari e cliniche
- SSD
- MED/25
- Year
- 3rd year
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- CFU
- 2
- Hours distribution
- 24 classroom hours
- Lecturers
- Angelo Bruschi
Module 3: MENTAL HYGIENE CLINICAL NURSING
- Activity type
- Scienze infermieristiche
- SSD
- MED/45
- Year
- 3rd year
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- CFU
- 2
- Hours distribution
- 24 classroom hours
- Lecturers
- VALENTINA BOCCACCI
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes: In order to achieve good clinical skills proficiency in psychiatry, the course aims to provide basic information on principles of global mental health, of psychopathology, and of mental disorders and their epidemiology, clinical features, detection, diagnosis and treatment in the community and in hospital.
At the end of the course the student must: a) know the global and individual impact of mental disorders; b) recognize main signs and symptoms of mental disorders; c) know epidemiology, clinical characteristics and course, DSM-5 diagnostic criteria of mental disorders; d) to recognize common consciousness disorder with their differential diagnosis in medicine e) know the treatment of acute and long-term pharmacological and psychosocial treatment of mental disorders; d) know basic forensic aspects of psychiatry and compulsory treatment of mental disorders.
Prerequisites
None.
Programme
Main teaching objectives:
For Psychiatry, students should acquire knowledge on epidemiology, characteristics, impact, diagnostic criteria, and treatment of mental disorders. The course pays special attention to the detection and management of peri-partum mental disorders.
Concepts of psychiatry
Psychiatric evaluation and basics of dimensional psychopathology
Consciousness and related disorders
Anxiety and anxiety disorders
Depressive and bipolar disorders - Suicide
Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders
Obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders
Psychiatric disorders due to general medical conditions
Anorexia and bulimia
Stress, Trauma- and Stressor- Related disorders
Consciousness disorders and Somatic Symptom and Related Disorder.
Personality disorders
Substance use disorders
Psychiatric Treatments
Books
M Biondi (a cura di). Compendio di psichiatria e salute mentale. Alpes, 2017
Bibliography
Module: CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Module: PSYCHIATRY
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Module: MENTAL HYGIENE CLINICAL NURSING
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Lessons mode
Frontal lectures, with interaction parts. Discussion of clinical cases.
Frequency
Required attendance.
Exam mode
Thirty-two multiple choice questions with only one correct choice. Two points each correct answer, zero points for wrong or missing answers.
Example exam questions
Major Depressive Disorder is more prevalent in:
□ high income countries
□ women than in men
□ men than in women
□ children than in adults
Arguments
Module: CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
N/D
Module: PSYCHIATRY
N/D
Module: MENTAL HYGIENE CLINICAL NURSING
N/D
- Academic year2025/2026
- Degree program to which the course belongsNursing REPLICA V-ASL VITERBO
- Mandatory presenceNo
- Languageita
- CFU6 CFU, distributed among 3 integrated didactic modules
- Total duration72 hours