Psychopathology I

Year
2
Academic year
2014-2015
Code
01740147
Subject Area
Psychology
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
4.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

It is advisable that students have already completed the following courses: Biology and Genetics, Developmental Psychology, and Psychophysiology.

Teaching Methods

Expositive and interactive methods. Participant modeling, role playing, case analysis and discussion, and feeback.

Learning Outcomes

This course has the aim of presenting the main models for understanding psychopathology, within an integrative and multidimensional perspective, which contemplates biological, psychological and social factors. The course also aims to familiarize students with the main criteria of mental examination and with the Schizophrenia diagnostic criteria and main characteristics, while focusing on the competencies that will enable students to elaborate a mental examination and diagnose schizophrenia.

Learning outcomes

- To learn the models of understanding psychopathological changes, within an integrative and multidimensional perspective.

- To learn the influences that biological, psychological and social factors have on the development of psychopathological changes, and vice-versa.

- To be able to carry out a psychopathological assessment by conducting mental examinations and gathering the relevant data.

- To be able to diagnose Schizophrenia.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1.Def. and scope of the study of Psychopathology

2.The concept and study of psychological disorders

3.The historical evolution of the concept of psychological disorders (mental illness) and its explicative models

4.The concepts of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention

5.Karl Jaspers and the phenomenological approach

6.The mental examination, its aim and phases:assessment of presentation,motor behavior and language, contact,consciousness and attention,anxiety and the psychop. of humor and affectivity,psychop. of thought,changes of perception,memory,intelligence and vital biological functions

7.The diagnosis criteria of Schizophrenia according to the DSM-IV-TR;the concept of positive and negative symptoms;Bleuler’s “fundamental symptoms” and Kurt Schneider’s “1.ªorder symptoms”,and their relationship with positive and negative symptoms;the prevalence of schizophrenia;clinical condition and evolution:disorganized,paranoid,catatonic and undifferentiated schizophrenia;risk factors.

Head Lecturer(s)

José Augusto Veiga Pinto Gouveia

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Alloy, L. B., Jacobson, N. S., & Acocella, J. (1999). Abnormal Psychology: Current Perspectives. Boston: McGraw-Hill. (Cap 4, (pg. 76-120).

American Psychiatric Association (2002). DSM-4-TR: Manual de diagnóstico e estatística das perturbações mentais (4ª edição; texto revisto). Lisboa: Climepsi Editores.

Barlow, D. H., & Durand, V. M. (2001). Abnormal Psychology: An Integrative Approach. Belmont: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.  (Cap. 1, Cap. 2, pg. 27-62 e Cap. 3, pg. 63-88).

Davison, G. C. & Neale, J. M. & Kring, A. M. (2007). Abnormal Psychology. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Jaspers, K. (1997). General Psychopathology. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Trzepacz, P. T. & Baker, R. W. (2001). Exame Psiquiátrico do Estado Mental. Lisboa: Climepsi Editores.