Psychopatology

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Expositive and interactive methods. Role playing, clinical 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 approach, which integrates biological, psychological and social factors, with special emphasis on the sociological approach. Moreover, we generally taught the main paradigms of learning (e.g., classical conditioning, operant, social learning and cognitive). The course also aims to transmit knowledge on the evaluation of psychopathology (mental examination) and clinical diagnoses of the most prevalent disorders, including schizophrenia. It also aims to train and enable students in skills assessment for the preparation of psychiatric mental examination

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Definition and scope of the study of Psych..

The concept and study of Mental Disease. The historical evolution of the concept of psychological disorders (mental illness) and its explicative models:

Karl Jaspers and the phenomenological approach: the concepts of reaction, development and process, and genetic comprehension.

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 “first order symptoms”, and their relationship with positive and negative symptoms; the prevalence and types of schizophrenia: disorganized, paranoid, catatonic and undifferentiated schizophrenia.

Head Lecturer(s)

Paula Cristina Oliveira Castilho Freitas

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam (100%) or Midtern exam (50%) + 50% mental examination: a practical case ; - definition of mental disease, conceptual models and learning paradigms: a practical case : 100.0%

Bibliography

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

•• 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.

• 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.