Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)

Study Course Description

Outpatient and Social Psychiatry

Main Study Course Information

Course Code

RPS_029

Branch of Science

Clinical medicine; Psychiatry

ECTS

19.00

Target Audience

Medicine

LQF

Level 8

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor

Māris Taube

Residency Speciality

Speciality

Psychiatrist

Supervisor of Medical Speciality

Māris Taube

Contacts

About Study Course

Objective

• To ensure the acquisition of the theoretical knowledge and practical skills in outpatient work for the psychiatrist. • To provide the psychiatrist with theoretical knowledge on the significance of social factors in the aetiology and therapy of psychiatric disorders and practical skill sin resolving the social issues of the patients.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.Knowledge of outpatient diagnostics, therapy, disease management, drawing up of therapy plans, implementation thereof, considering the therapy commenced at the inpatient institutions, complex approach to patient care, social factors and their role in the disease process of the patient, use of the aforementioned knowledge on social situation in the process of therapy and care.

Skills

1.Skills – to promptly identify the social problems of the patient in outpatient care, to diagnose the connection thereof with psychopathology, to organise care, to evaluate the social situation of patients, to recommend the possibilities of assistance within the healthcare system and beyond that; to determine the diagnosis in outpatient care, to prescribe therapy, to cooperate with other outpatient specialists and inpatient psychiatric service.

Competences

1.Competencies – to assume responsibility for the outpatient phase of patient’s therapy, to be capable of being accountable for the decisions made, to give tasks to the members of therapy and care team, to evaluate the information received from other persons involved in the therapy of the patient, including social aspects, to be liable for the ethical and legal consequences of one’s action, to be aware of the principal regulatory enactments governing outpatient care and social care, to use and to adequately interpret scientific research findings and information available in the literature in the interests of the patient.

Assessment

Individual work

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Individual work	-	-
• to read additional literature sources, to attend thematic conferences of LPA and LAP - To acquire the peculiarities of outpatient work in psychiatry. - To develop the skill of detecting social factors that are significant to the aetiology of the disease and to take them into consideration during therapy process.

Examination

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Examination	-	-
Testing theoretical knowledge in the form of tests and questions, analysis of clinical cases.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME

Part 1

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Sociology. Subject matter and tasks. Changing world and globalisation. Social base of health and diseases. Medicine and society.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Social status and psychiatric health of the society. Awareness level of the society and attitude towards patients. Role of family, migration.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Social psychiatry. Brief historical outlook. Subject matter, tasks and methods.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Social factors and borderline disorders.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

The influence of social factors on affective disorders and schizophrenic patients.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

The influence of social factors on addictions.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Social factors and personality disorders.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Social psychiatric care in Latvia. Scientific research methods in social psychiatry, research data.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Outpatient work in psychiatry, medical documentation, medicinal product compensation system.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Organisations, structure, models, work methods and principles of social, socio-psychiatric and outpatient care.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Socio-psychiatric aspects of elderly care.

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Specialized room

Topics

Legislation that protects patients and their interests.

Total ECTS (Creditpoints):

19.00

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 Edition. Philadelphia; Williams & Wilkins, 2015.

David Semple; Roger Smyth. Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry, 4th Edition: OUP Oxford. 2019. eBook., Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

Thornicroft, Graham Alem, Atalay Drake, Robert E. World Psychiatric Association: Community Mental Health: Putting Policy into Practice Globally. Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2011.

Slimību profilakses un kontroles centrs. Klīniskie algoritmi un pacientu ceļi. Psihiskā veselība. 2020.

Caune M., Rancāns E., Andrēziņa R. Sociālpsihiatrija. Rīga: Nacionālais apgāds, 2009, 32 lpp.

Anthony W., Cohen M., Farkas M. Psihiatriskā rehabilitācija. Tulk. no angļu val. 1994.g. izd. Iespiests Tallinā, 1998.

Additional Reading

E. Tērauds, E. Rancāns, R. Andrēziņa, B. Kupča, I. Ķiece, I. Zārde, Ņ. Bezborodovs. Šizofrēnijas diagnostikas un ārstēšanas vadlīnijas. 3. Izdevums. Latvijas psihiatru asociācija. Rīga, 2014.g., 43 lpp. (elektroniska kopija atrodama www.estudijas.rsu.lv)

E. Tērauds, E. Rancāns, R. Andrēziņa, B. Kupča, G. Ancāne, I. Ķiece, Ņ. Bezborodovs. Depresijas diagnostikas un ārstēšanas vadlīnijas. 3. Izdevums. Latvijas psihiatru asociācija. Rīga, 2015.g., 52 lpp. (elektroniska kopija atrodama www.estudijas.rsu.lv)

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

Caune M. Sertifikācija psihiatrijā. Uzdevumu krājums, 2013.

Other Information Sources

Taylor, David Paton, Carol Kapur, Shitij. Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry. 11th Edition, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2012.

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.