Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Clinical Psychopathology
Course Code
RPS_015
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine; Psychiatry
ECTS
16.00
Target Audience
Medicine
LQF
Level 8
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Māris Taube
Residency Speciality
Speciality
Psychiatrist
Supervisor of Medical Speciality
Māris Taube
Contacts
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About Study Course
Objective
To ensure the acquisition of theoretical knowledge and practical skills required for the detection, recognition and description of symptoms and syndromes of psychiatric disorders.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Knowledge on the levels of psychopathological symptoms and syndromes, awareness of psychopathological symptom groups and the specific nature of psychopathological syndromes.
Skills
1.To develop an emphatic, supportive clinical conversation with a patient, to systematically obtain all required information in order to qualify the syndrome; to evaluate the change of state in drawing up the dynamic history of the disease - summarising of subjective and objective data of the anamnesis and precise reflection of the psychiatric and neurological condition in medical documentation.
Competences
1.In communication with patients as they are in different psychological states, with their relatives, with other members of patient care team either at the inpatient institution or in outpatient settings, while observing the ethical and legal conditions.
Assessment
Individual work
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1.
Individual work |
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• to read additional literature sources, to attend thematic conferences of LPA and LAP
• to leard the skills of establishing and maintaining the contact with the patient in clinical situations.
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Examination
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1.
Examination |
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Evaluation of theoretical knowledge and practical skills once during the cycle by using tests and clinical cases.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Seminar
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Modality
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Location
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On site
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Specialized room
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Topics
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Definitions of mental health and disease. Peculiarities of communication and examination in psychiatry (anamnesis, psychiatric status, decursus morbi)
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Seminar
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Location
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On site
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Specialized room
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Topics
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Perceptual disorders: senestopathy, illusions, hallucinations, their variants, psychosensory disorders, de ja vu and ma vu type disorders.
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Seminar
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Modality
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Location
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On site
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Disturbances of thinking processes, their types. Obsessions, overvalued ides and delusions. Classification of delusions.
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Seminar
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Modality
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Location
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On site
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Specialized room
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Topics
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Disturbances of affective (mood). Affective- delusional syndromes. The main suicide risk factors.
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Seminar
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Modality
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Location
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On site
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Specialized room
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Topics
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Attention and memory impairment. Intelligence, its integral functions. Mental retardation and dementia. Diagnosis of dementia and differential diagnostic criteria. Types of dementia
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Seminar
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Modality
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Location
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On site
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Specialized room
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Topics
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Impaired intellectual function. Memory impairment. Attention pathology. Assessment of these disorders. Organic psychosyndrome. Organic amnesty
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Seminar
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On site
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Specialized room
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Neurotic syndromes, their clinical manifestations. Sleep disorders in a psychiatric clinic.
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Seminar
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Modality
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Location
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On site
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Specialized room
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Topics
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Pathology of instincts, drives and tendencies. Hyperbulia, hypobulia and abuli. Mannery. Catatonic syndrome.
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Seminar
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On site
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Specialized room
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Topics
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Personality, its substructures. Diagnosis and significance of personality disorders. The concept of specific personality disorders and personality changes
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
16.00
Number of Residency Seminars:
9
Length (weeks):
12
Final Examination:
Residency exam (Theory and practice)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
David Semple; Roger Smyth. Series: Oxford Handbooks. 4rth edition. Oxford : OUP Oxford. 2019. eBook., Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
2.
Kaplan & Sadocks. Synopsis of Psychiatry. Editors B. J. Sadock, V. A. Sadock. 11th edition. Philadelphia; Williams & Wilkins, 2015
3.
Harrison, Paul Geddes, John Sharpe, Michael. Lecture Notes: Lecture Notes: Psychiatry. 10th edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
4.
Shahrokh, Narriman C. Hales, Robert E. Phillips, Katharine A. Language of Mental Health: A Glossary of Psychiatric Terms. American Psychiatric Publishing, Arlington, VA, USA, 2011
Additional Reading
1.
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. 10th Revision
2.
ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders: Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines. World Health Organization Staff. World Health Organization (WHO), Albany, NY, USA, 1992
3.
ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders: Diagnostic Criteria for Research. World Health Organization Staff. World Health Organization (WHO), Albany, NY, USA, 1993
4.
Caune M. Sertifikācija psihiatrijā. Uzdevumu krājums, 2013