Psychopathology

The course will be developed according to a theoretical-practical model with structured exposition of the contents and related analysis and discussion or debate.
Students will be evaluated through written assignment, about contents taught on subject and a written test, consisting of questions that evaluate the extent and depth of the theoretical knowledge acquired in the course and the ability of practical application of that knowledge to everyday situations and to particular scientific ares.
The approval in the subject is achieved with a greater than, or equal to, 10 marks (scale 0-20), resulting from the sum of the marks obtained in the written work and in the test, weighted, respectively, with 20% and 80 %. The classification in each (assignment and test) can not be less than 9.5.

The student must acquire:
Knowledge:
* Psychopathology conditions;
* Characteristics and differentiation of different conditions.
Skills:
* Reflect on the factors involved in mental health;
* Understand the major psychopathology conditions; * Reflect on the body’s relationship to mental illness.
Competencies:
*ldentify major psychopathology conditions; * Recognize ways to deal with them.

1. Historical perspective, explanatory models and key ratings for psychopathology
2. Disturbances that usually appear during childhood and adolescence
* Developmental disorders
* Disorders of behavior and anxiety
* Disorders of elimination
* Physical and sexual abuse
* Eating Disorders
3. Disturbances in the family system
* Systemic Perspective
* Family life cycle
* Family Dysfunctions
4. Disturbances that usually occur in adulthood
* lnitial Considerations (psychopathology of perception, thought, memory and consciousness) * Anxious disorders
* Somatoform disorders
* Mood disorders
* Schizophrenia and other psychoses

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