Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)

Study Course Description

Clinical Psychopathology

Main Study Course Information

Course Code

RNA_001

Branch of Science

Clinical medicine; Psychiatry

ECTS

16.05

Target Audience

Medicine

LQF

Level 8

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor

Sarmīte Skaida

Residency Speciality

Speciality

Narcologist

Supervisor of Medical Speciality

Sarmīte Skaida

Contacts

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

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Individual work	-	-
• To provide knowledge and skills in patient examination based on the knowledge of clinical psychopathology, to use paraclinical methods as well, if required. • To teach the skills of establishing and maintaining the contact with the patient in examination situations.

Examination

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Examination	-	-
Evaluation of theoretical knowledge and practical skills once during the cycle by using tests and patient examination.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME

Part 1

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Definitions of mental health and disease. Peculiarities of communication and examination in psychiatry (anamnesis, psychological status, decursus morbi).

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Affective (mood) disorders. Affective syndrome. Affective-delusional syndromes. Principal factors of suicidal risk.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Affective (mood) disorders. Affective syndrome. Affective-delusional syndromes. Principal factors of suicidal risk.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Habit, drive and impulse pathology. Hyperbulia, hypobulia and abulia. Mannerism. Catatonic syndrome. Signs and syndromes of mental confusion.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Attention and memory disorders. Intellect, integral functions thereof. Mental retardation and dementia. Diagnostics of dementia and criteria of differential diagnostics. Subtypes of dementia.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Personality, substructures thereof. Diagnostics of personal disorders, significance thereof. Notion of specific personality disorders and personality changes.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Intellectual function disorders. Memory disorders. Attention pathology. Evaluation of the aforementioned disorders. Organic psychosyndrome. Organic amnesic syndrome (Korsakoff’s syndrome). Mental debility.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Symptoms and syndromes, peculiarities and changes thereof during the course of disease. So called neurotypical syndromes. Psychotic syndromes, productive deficiency syndromes.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Neurotic syndromes, clinical manifestations thereof. Sleep disorders in psychiatric clinical practice.

Total ECTS (Creditpoints):

16.05

Number of Residency Seminars:

Length (weeks):

Final Examination:

Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Required Reading

Kaplan & Sadocks. Synopsis of Psychiatry, Editors B.J.Sadock, V.A.Sadock. – 11th ed. – Philadelphia; Williams & Wilkins, 2015.

B.J.Sadock, V.A.Sadock. Kaplan & Sadock’s Concise Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. – 10th ed. – Philadelphia; Williams & Wilkins, 2009

Semple D, Smyth R. Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry, third edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013

D. Goldberg, L. Gask, R. Moriss. Psychiatry in Medical Practice. 3rd edition. Routledge, 2008

Harrison, Paul Geddes, John Sharpe, Michael. Lecture Notes : Lecture Notes : Psychiatry (10th Edition), Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rsub/docDetail.action?docID=10518723

Additional Reading

R. Andrēziņa, E. Tērauds. Praktiskā psihofarmakoterapija. Rīga, 2015.g. 40 lpp.

S. Stahl. Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology. Fourth edition. Cambridge medicine 2013

Taylor, David Paton, Carol Kapur, Shitij. Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry (11th Edition), Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2012http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rsub/docDetail.action?docID=10531429

Bazire S. Psychotropic Drug Directory 2015. The professionals packet handbook and aide memories. 2015.

Pharmacological treatment of mental disorders in primary health care / World Health Organization. Geneva : World Health Organization, 2009.http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241547697_eng.pdf

Other Information Sources

Eglītis I (1982) Vispārīgā psihopatoloģija. Zvaigzne, Rīga.

Caune M., Sertifikācija psihiatrijā. Uzdevumu krājums, 2003.

Kulbergs J. Dinamiskā psihiatrija, Rīga: Jumava, 2001.

Psihiskā veselība Latvijā 2014. gadā. Tematiskais ziņojums. SPKC. 15.izdevums Rīga. 2015.