Sylabus
S y l l a b u s - p s y c h i a t r y
Personality : determinants of personality ( genetic , environmental factors), assessment of personality, clinical personality types ( e.g. anxious, obsessional, hysterical .
Emotions and stress : pathways mediating the reactions of organism ´s responses to emotional changes and various stresses. Stress and distress, life events, re- adjustment. Anomalities of emotions, mood disorders. 3. Psychiatric examination : history-taking, the interview, general rules for interview, family history, personal history, medical history, present illness. Description of present mental state ( general appearance and behaviour form of talk, mood, perception, thinking, memory etc.)
Organic psychosyndromes : dementia ( clasification, clinical feature ), senile dementia, Alzheimer s disease, multi-infarct and arteriosclerotic dementia and others according to the underlying pathogenic processes ( inflamatory, neoplastic, intoxications, metabolic, traumatic etc. ).
Schizophrenia : clinical features ( withdrawal, thought disorders, disorders of perception, change of affect, disturbances in behaviour and motor functions ),varieties of schizophrenia , aetiology of schizophrenia ( influence of genetic and environmental factors in schizophrenia ), diagnostic criteria, treatment, prognosis.
Affective disorders : clinical features of depressive disorder ( appearance, behaviour, mood, thinking, los of interest, sleep disturbances etc.) , griefreactions, bereavement. Suicide, attempted suicide. Depressive equivalent.Principles of management of depressive disorder ( drug treatment etc. ).Clinical features of manic disorder ( appearance, behaviour,mood, thinking),Principles of management of manic disorder ( drug treatment ).Prognosis ofaffective disorders.
Hysteria : forms of hysterical reaction ( dysmnestic, conversion symptoms, quasi-psychotic state, superaditions to physical diseases).Diagnosis and treatment of hysteria. Communication with a hysterical patient at non-psychiatric department.
Neurotic disorders : anxiety states ( clinical features, aethiologic factors e.g. genetic, constitutional , psychological and others, treatment ), the occurrence of anxiety and other mental, physical and psychosomatic disorders. Obsessional states ( clinical features, differential diagnosis of obsessional states, obsessions as parts of other mental disorders, obsessional personality, treatment ).
Child psychiatry : disturbances in eliminative functions ( e.g. enuresis ),behaviour problems concerning eating, unhealthy behavioural and emotional responses ( e.g. aggressive behaviour problerms, hyperkinetic states ), psychosomatic disorders, severe mental disorders ( e.g. childhood schizophrenia, early autism ).
Psychiatric emergencies : suicidal attemps and threats, aggressive behaviour, violence, acute panic attacs, states of excitement, severe depression, manic episodes, acute toxic states ( intoxication ), delirium. Legal aspect ( e.g. consent to treatment , compulsory admission and detention etc. ).
Psychotherapy : doctor-patient relationship, individual and group dynamic (psychoanalytic ) psychotherapy, behaviour and cognitive therapy, therapeutic community, patient-therapist-method matching, evaluation of results of psychotherapy. Occupational therapy and rehabilitalion.
Psychofarmacotherapy : classification of psychotropic drugs( benzodiazepins, neuroleptic, antidepressants etc. ). Side effects of psychofarmacotherapy. Psychiatric rating scales for asessment of drug treatment.
Anotace
Psychiatric terminology. Typical signs and symptoms of psychiatrie disorders.
International classification of mental and behavioural disorders. Interviewing and history taking.
Formulation of psychiatric diagnosis. Treatment in psychiatry.
Participation at therapeutic programmes for patients. Training of interview techniques and history - taking.