2024
Psychopathology
Name: Psychopathology
Code: PSI11107L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Psychology
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
This UC was planed with the aim of teaching students about the lexicon used in Psychopathology and mental health and with the main nosological entities
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Theoreticall Knowledge
- To know about the basic principles of psychopathology as a discipline
- To know about psychopathological semiology
- To know and describe the major nosological entities in psychopathology
Practical skills:
- Thinking critically abvout psychopatological classifications
- To aknowledge the importante of personal factors and of past hisotry in understanding mental ilness
- To identify the synmptoms and the diagnosis of a clinical case
- To know about the basic principles of psychopathology as a discipline
- To know about psychopathological semiology
- To know and describe the major nosological entities in psychopathology
Practical skills:
- Thinking critically abvout psychopatological classifications
- To aknowledge the importante of personal factors and of past hisotry in understanding mental ilness
- To identify the synmptoms and the diagnosis of a clinical case
Contents
PART 1 - Psychopathology: Subject of Study, Concepts, Methods and Semiology
1-Psychopathology as a discipline
2-Classification and diagnosis in psychopathology
3- Psychopathological semiology
PART II- Nosology: Description of Diagnostic Entities in Psychopathology
1- Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders
2- Depressive Disorders and suicide
3- Bipolar Disorders
4- Anxiety Disorders
5- The Somatoform Disorders
6- Obsessive-compulsive disoder and related disorders
7- Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders
8- Personality Disorders
9- Anorexia nervosa and Bulimia nervosa
10- Substance Related disosrders
11- Other psychopathological disorders
1-Psychopathology as a discipline
2-Classification and diagnosis in psychopathology
3- Psychopathological semiology
PART II- Nosology: Description of Diagnostic Entities in Psychopathology
1- Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders
2- Depressive Disorders and suicide
3- Bipolar Disorders
4- Anxiety Disorders
5- The Somatoform Disorders
6- Obsessive-compulsive disoder and related disorders
7- Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders
8- Personality Disorders
9- Anorexia nervosa and Bulimia nervosa
10- Substance Related disosrders
11- Other psychopathological disorders
Teaching Methods
Teaching methodology:
Expository teaching
Watching videos and writen vignetes about clinical cases
Group exercices on case reports and subsequent discussion about the nosological entities
Evaluation methodologies:
Two tests
Practical group works: a case study and a conceptual work about a clinical entity
Evaluation
The continuous evaluation is composed of two components; practical (two assignments) and theoretical: two tests
Assignments
25% + 25% of the final classification
Tests
25% + 25% of the final classification
The final evaluation is composed of the following components:
1- Exam - 50% of the final classification
2- Practical component
2 assignments - 25% + 25% of the final classification
Expository teaching
Watching videos and writen vignetes about clinical cases
Group exercices on case reports and subsequent discussion about the nosological entities
Evaluation methodologies:
Two tests
Practical group works: a case study and a conceptual work about a clinical entity
Evaluation
The continuous evaluation is composed of two components; practical (two assignments) and theoretical: two tests
Assignments
25% + 25% of the final classification
Tests
25% + 25% of the final classification
The final evaluation is composed of the following components:
1- Exam - 50% of the final classification
2- Practical component
2 assignments - 25% + 25% of the final classification
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
- Maria João Serrano Carapeto [responsible]
