Main Study Course Information

Course Code

RPH_040

Branch of Science

Anatomy; Clinical medicine

ECTS

13.00

Target Audience

Medicine

LQF

Level 8

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor

Artūrs Utināns

Residency Speciality

Speciality

Psychotherapist

Supervisor of Medical Speciality

Artūrs Utināns

Contacts

-

About Study Course

Objective

Provide in-depth understanding about mental disorders and biopsychosocial factors of origin and development of diseases, classification, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Students must acquire the following: •knowledge on manifestations, development and course of mental disorders and addictions and diseases in adults, teenagers and children; •skills in diagnosis, evaluation and differential diagnosis of mental disorders and addictions, and illnesses; •knowledge and skills required for treatment of mental disorders and illnesses, setting goals and elaborating a plan in order to choose the most appropriate methods of treatment and prevention, taking into account the biopsychosocial aspects.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.about treatment of mental disorders and diseases, methods of treatment and prevention.

Skills

1.diagnosis of mental disorders and diseases in accordance with SSK-10; elaboration of the plan of treatment, chose the most appropriate methods of treatment and prevention;

Competences

1.example-based knowledge, skills and attitude, raising public awareness via media; understanding of a team-work (work in groups) and its functions, psycho-dynamics, crisis situations and their solution; as well as the ability to manage the work of a multi-disciplinary team and be part of such team.

Assessment

Individual work

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Individual work	-	-
Skills of diagnostic of mental disorders and conditions.

Examination

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Examination	-	-
Description of the clinical case.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME

Part 1

Total ECTS (Creditpoints):

13.00

Number of Residency Seminars:

0

Length (weeks):

10

Final Examination:

Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry. Editors, Harold I.Kaplan, Benjamin J. Sadock.- 50th Anniversary Edition, 2017.

2.

Jerald Kay, Allan Tasman. Essentials of psychiatry. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2006.

3.

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5. 5th ed. American Psychiatric Association, 2013.

4.

Lewis’s child and adolescent psychiatry: a comprehensive textbook. 5th ed. 2018, Wolters Kluwer.

5.

Toward a new diagnosticē system for child psychopathology. Moving Beyond the DSM. 2006.

Additional Reading

1.

Kulbergs. “Dinamiskā psihiatrija”. Jumava, 2001

2.

MacKinnon and Michels. The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice. W.B.Saunders Company, 1971.

3.

G. Gabbard. Psychodyamic psychiatry in clinical practice. 4th ed., American Psychiatric publishing, 2005.

Psychiatry, Narcology, Paediatric Psychiatry