Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Course Code
RBS_020
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine; Psychiatry
ECTS
32.00
Target Audience
Medicine
LQF
Level 8
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Ņikita Bezborodovs
Residency Speciality
Speciality
Pediatric psychiatrist
Supervisor of Medical Speciality
Ņikita Bezborodovs
Contacts
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About Study Course
Objective
To provide an understanding of the theoretical framework and practical aspects of child and adolescent psychiatry in the education, health and social care systems of the world and Latvia. To ensure the acquisition of theoretical knowledge and practical skills required for the detection, recognition and description of symptoms and syndromes of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. To ensure the acquisition of theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary for psychopharmacotherapeutic treatment of children and adolescents – preparations used in psychopharmacotherapy, action thereof, pharmacoeconomics and emergency psychiatric assistance. To ensure the acquisition of theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary for independent work with various groups of minor patients.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Knowledge on the aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, course and basic principles of treatment of mental and behavioural disorders in children and adolescents; rehabilitation and prevention thereof.
Skills
1.The skill of diagnosing mental and behavioural disorders in children and adolescents in accordance with the ICD-10 classification by means of comprehensive evaluation of patient’s condition in dynamic change and respective reflection thereof in medical documentation; the skill of treating the patient, to develop an individual care plan for the patient by including the required examinations, medication therapy, psychological therapy and psychosocial rehabilitation, etc.
Competences
1.Competences to cooperate with a minor patient and their family in order to ensure a dynamic evaluation of the state of health and treatment results; in the organisation of inpatient and outpatient care, providing emergency and planned psychiatric help and rehabilitation for children and adolescents. To cooperate with other care providers, the child and their family members during the treatment process; educate them about the course and treatment of the disease; be aware of the limits of one’s professional competence.
Assessment
Individual work
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The students must acquire:
1. Knowledge of the manifestations, development and course of mental and behavioural disorders of children and adolescents,
2. Skills in the diagnosis, assessment and differential diagnosis of psychiatric and behavioural disorders of children and adolescents,
3. Knowledge and skills required for the treatment of mental and behavioural disorders in children and adolescents, setting objectives and drawing up a plan in order to choose the most optimal treatment and prevention methods, taking into account biopsychosocial aspects.
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Examination
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Assessment of theoretical knowledge by means of test questions.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Seminar
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Clinical psychopathology of mental disorders in children and adolescents (neurotic syndromes, affective syndromes, perceptual and thinking disorders).
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ICD-10, ICD-11 and DSM-5 diagnostic system in children and adolescent psychiatry. The social construction of diagnosis. Prevalence of mental and behavioural disorders in the population of children and adolescents, factors affecting them.
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Theoretical framework of children and adolescent clinical psychiatry: Bio-psycho-social model of mental disorders, diathesis-stress model, differential susceptibility model, concept of spectrum of mental disorders.
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Examination plan in case of first-time mental disorders, multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment (the role of neurologist, geneticist, speech therapist, special education teacher, clinical psychologist, psychotherapist).
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Inpatient and outpatient work in children and adolescent psychiatry, medical documentation, medication compensation system.
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Sociopsychiatric aspects of health care, social care and education of children with functional disorders.
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Legislation that protects patients and their interests. International human rights framework in children and adolescent psychiatry.
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Organisations, structure, models, work methods and principles of social, socio-psychiatric and outpatient assistance.
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Eating disorders in children and adolescents.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorders in children and adolescents: diagnosis, nosological affiliation, treatment.
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Tics and Tourette syndrome in children and adolescents.
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Suicidality and non-suicidal self-harm in adolescent practice.
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Gender identity and other identity disorders in children and adolescents.
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Bipolar-affective disorders in children and adolescents.
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Crisis reactions, psychogenic depression and adjustment disorders.
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High risk mental state, prodromal states in adolescent psychiatry.
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Specialized room
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Dissociative disorders in children and adolescents. Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
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Specifics of mental and behavioural disorders in adolescence. Formation of personality disorders.
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Specifics of neuropsychopharmacology in the practice of children and adolescents. The main groups of psychotropic drugs, characteristics, doses thereof.
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Specialized room
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Perinatal psychiatry. Providing assistance to the mother-child dyad.
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Community-based mental health services for adolescents. Transition from child to adult psychiatric services.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
32.00
Number of Residency Seminars:
21
Length (weeks):
24
Final Examination:
Residency exam (Theory and practice)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Robert Goodman, Stephen Scott. -Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 3rd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell (2012)
Additional Reading
1.
Sam Goldstein, Melissa DeVries (eds.)-Handbook of DSM-5 Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Springer International Publishing (2017)
2.
Bruce, Helen Dowdney, Linda Skuse, David. - Child psychology and psychiatry - frameworks for clinical training and practice. Wiley.
3.
Andres Martin, Fred R. Volkmar, Michael H Bloch. -Lewis's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. A Comprehensive Textbook-Wolters Kluwer Health (2017)
4.
Anita Thapar, Daniel S. Pine, et.al. -Rutter's child and adolescent psychiatry. Wiley (2015)
5.
(International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry) Perring, Christian David Wells, Lloyd A. - Diagnostic dilemmas in child and adolescent psychiatry philosophical perspectives. Oxford University Press (2014)
Other Information Sources
1.
JM Rey`s Iacapap. e-Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health.