IVc702 Basics of Psychiatry

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/0/2.1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
MUDr. Jana Schmidtová (lecturer)
Bc. Matúš Mader (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Karel Pančocha, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Institute for Research in Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: PhDr. Lenka Gajzlerová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Institute for Research in Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Timetable
Fri 11. 10. 9:00–16:50 učebna 41, Sat 12. 10. 9:00–16:50 učebna 41, Sat 14. 12. 9:00–16:50 učebna 37
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course aims to acquaint the course participants with the role of psychiatry in medical and non-medical fields, with the spectrum of psychiatric disorders and with the possibilities of pharmacological and non-pharmacological procedures of their treatment.
Learning outcomes of the course unit The subject acquaints with the basic concepts of medical psychiatry and its focus. The basic lessons of general and special psychiatry concerning the field of applied behavioral analysis are presented in individual lessons. Attention is paid especially to the topics of mental health and mental disorder, symptoms, and causes of mental disorders, classification of mental disorders, childhood psychosis, psychogenic disorders and neuroses, depressive conditions in children, psychosomatic disorders, behavioral disorders, mild brain dysfunction and hyperactive syndrome, learning disabilities , mental level disorders, personality development disorders and psychopathy. The topics of neurodevelopmental disorders and their psychiatric diagnostics and treatment are discussed separately.
Learning outcomes
The graduate of the course is able to describe the importance of psychiatry in other medical and non-medical fields, knows the complexity of psychiatric disorders and the possibilities of pharmacological and non-pharmacological procedures for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. The graduate will be able to describe the symptoms of a wide range of psychiatric disorders and psychotic disorders. The graduates of the course are also able to describe and divide the disorders of mental functions, describe the principles of psychiatric diagnostics, understand the division and indication of therapy in psychiatry, describe the division, symptoms and course of major groups of psychiatric disorders, describe management and therapies in the main groups of psychiatric disorders with a focus on neurodevelopment disorders. Graduates can explain ways and forms of collaboration between a psychiatrist and a behavioral analyst.
Syllabus
  • General Psychiatry: introduction to psychiatry, basic concepts, history
  • Psychopathology, etiology, and pathogenesis of mental disorders
  • Special psychiatry: organically and symptomatically conditioned mental disorders
  • General principles of psychiatric examination and diagnosis, the importance of personal and family history
  • Biochemistry and CSF in Psychiatry
  • Neurobiology and neurochemistry in psychiatry
  • Mental disorders and behavioral disorders
  • Neuro-developmental disorders (ADHD, autism spectrum disorders) and specifics of their diagnostics
  • Affective disorders
  • Stress-induced disorders, somatoform disorders
  • Specific personality disorders - mental disability
  • Prevention and treatment in psychiatry
Literature
    required literature
  • ZVOLSKÝ, Petr. Obecná psychiatrie. Praha: Karolinum, 1998, 192 s. ISBN 8071846813. info
  • ZVOLSKÝ, Petr. Speciální psychiatrie. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2003, 206 stran. ISBN 8071842036. info
  • RABOCH, Jiří and Petr ZVOLSKÝ. Psychiatrie. 1st ed. Praha: Galén, 2002, 622 pp. ISBN 80-7262-140-8. info
  • Poznámky k vybraným kapitolám z psychiatrie: http://www.ped.muni.cz/wsedu/index.php?p=terminy-zima2006
Teaching methods
lecture
Assessment methods
colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 26 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2019, recent)
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