Special Subjects on Adult Psychopathology

Year
4
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
02018046
Subject Area
Psychology
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

Students are advised to successfully complete the Systemic and Dynamic models curricular units (third year of the Integrated Master Degree).     

Teaching Methods

This course will be accomplished using expository teaching method (used in theoretical classes), active teaching-learning methodologies (used in practical classes) and tutorial guidance. The active teaching-learning methodologies includes "case studies" of patients followed in psychotherapy as well as didactic videos about specific psychopathological disturbances and role playing exercises focused on the development of specific skills. Periodic evaluation includes type A and C tests. Type C test (practical evaluations) score 20% and the two type A test scores the remaining 80%.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the unit, students should be able to:

* know the principal psychopathological models including organics, descriptive, phenomenological and psychoanalytic models

* Understand the issues related with the "categorical" versus "dimensional" models in psychopathology

* know the main disturbances in adult psychopathology (including personality disorders) 

* Develop the skills and competencies related with psychopathological diagnosis and reports, using the DSM-IV TR, the I.C.D.-10 and the structural diagnosis using the analytical models;

* Perform clinical reports

* Develop the necessary skills to conduct clinical interviews and diagnosis evaluation with adult patients;

* Develop a reflexive long life learning attitude.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Historical introduction to psychopathology: the organics, descriptive, phenomenological and psychoanalytic models;

2. The descriptive classification systems and the dynamic perspective

3. Normality and pathology in psychopathology: trauma, crisis and disorders (descriptivist and comprehensive -analytical- models)

4. Anxiety and neurotic personality organizations (neurosis and psychoanalysis)

5. Depression and psychoanalysis

6. Psychosis

6.1 Schizophrenia

6.2 Schizoaffective disorders

6.3 Other forms of psychosis (acute psychotic episodes or brief psychotic disorder, induced psychosis)

7. Personality disorders

7.1 Schizoid and schizotypy personality disorders

7.2 Delinquency and psychopathology: borderline, anti-social and psychopathic personalities disorders 

8. Drug addiction

9. Suicide acting

Head Lecturer(s)

Rui Alexandre Paquete Paixão

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 20.0%
Frequency: 80.0%

Bibliography

Barlow, D. H., & Durand, V. M. (2005). Abnormal psychology: An integrative approach. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.

Director, L. (2005). Encounters with Omnipotence in the Psychoanalysis of Substance Users. Psycho. Dial., 15(4), 567-586.

Millon, T., Krueger, R.F., & Simonsen, E. (2010). Contemporary directions in psychopathology. New York: Guilford Press

Paixão, R. (2002). Manual de Psicopatologia, Coimbra: FPCE-UC

Piers, C. (2010). Personality and psychopathology. New York: Springer

Shapiro, D. (2000). Dynamics of character : self-regulation in psychopathology. New York: BasicBooks

Mack, A.H, Brady, K.T., Miller, S.I., & Frances, R.J. (Edts) (2016). Clinical textbook of addictive disorders. New York: The Guilford Press

Osborne, R.E., Lafuze, J.E., & Perkins, D.V. (2016). Case Analyses for Abnormal Psychology (learning to look Beyond the Symptoms. London: Routledge

Zimerman, D. E. (2010). Fundamentos Psicanalíticos (teoria, técnica e clínica). Porto Alegre: Artmed