Curricular Unit:			Code:
Applied Psychopathology			1188PPAP
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
3	Undergraduate	Speech Therapy	4 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
Spring Semester		Portuguese/English	52
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
Applied Psychopathology is a curricular unit which aims to promote the development of basic knowledge about the modes of human behavior and experience. Therefore, the main objectives and competencies to be achieved are the following: OA1. Know the main psychic phenomena (affectivity, sensoperception, memory, consciousness, thinking, language, motor activity and initiative); OA2. Know and understand how the quantitative and qualitative changes of each psychic phenomena manifest themselves in the main of psychopathology at different stages in the life cycle: OA2. Relate psychic phenomena and the main psychopathological conditions with the scope of the Speech Therapist.
Syllabus:
CP1. Scope of Psychopathology: health and mental illness; basic psychopathology. CP2. General Psychopathology: main psychic phenomena (affectivity, sense of perception, memory, consciousness, thought, language, motor activity and initiative). CP3. Applied Psychopathology: main disorders of childhood, adolescence of adultness and senescence involving, primary or secondary, language alterations.
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
The knowledge of major psychic phenomena (OA1) is achieved through expository, descriptive and organizational presentation of the concepts of general psychopathology (CP1 and CP2), so that in a second stage, the student knows and understands how the changes in psychic phenomena are manifested in the main psychopathological pictures (OA2), which is achieved through the expository, descriptive and organizational presentation of the main psychopathological disorders (DSM-5) (CP3). Finally, and with the objective that the student relates the psychic phenomena and the main psychopathological conditions with his area of activity - Speech Therapy - (OA3), clinical cases in which there are changes in communication of a psychopathological nature will be analyzed and discussed (CP3).
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
The syllabus begins by being exposed descriptively in the classroom and later are supported by the analysis of clinical cases that support these same contents. This constant exercise in promoting knowledge and application of it is operationalized in terms of evaluation by performing a frequency of end of semester (with a weight of 60% of the final grade) and for the preparation and presentation in groups of two elements of a scientific paper that results from the analysis of a film where there are changes in communication of psychological nature (with a weight of 40% of the final grade).
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The teaching methodology consists precisely in oral exposition of theoretical concepts to complement the audiovisual media resource, and based on the theoretical concepts applied through the analysis of case study
Reading:
Abreu, J.L.P. (2009). Introdução à Psicopatologia Compreensiva (5ªEd.). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. American Psychiatric Association (2014). Manual de Diagnóstico e Estatística das Perturbações Mentais (5ª Ed.). Climepsi Editores. Bishop, D. & Leonard, L. (Eds.) (2000). Speech and Language Impairments in Children: causes, characteristics, intervention, and outcome. Psychology Press. Assumpção Jr., F.B. (2009). Fundamentos de Psicologia - Psicopatologia. Livros Técnicos e Científicos. Maddux, J.E. & Winstead, B.A. (Eds.) (2005). Psychopathology. Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding. Taylor & Francis. Scharfetter, C. (2005). Introdução à Psicopatologia Geral. Climepsi Editores.