Curricular Unit:Code:
Psychopathology of Adult and Elderly783PASE
Year:Level:Course:Credits:
2UndergraduatePsychology6 ects
Learning Period:Language of Instruction:Total Hours:
Portuguese/English78
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
1- Know the origins and evolution of Psychopathology referring to the diversity and complementarity of currents and approaches.
2- Understand the relativity of the normal, the deviant and the pathological from different perspectives. Understand the dynamic balance between health and disease, the dynamic process of decompensation and the structural issue.
3- Know the most relevant clinical conditions in Adult and Senescent psychopathology at the theoretical level and in conjunction with practical cases.
4- Acquire analytical skills in psychopathology, highlighting the distinction of levels and dimensions from a conceptual and clinical point of view.
5- Exercise skills of observation and analysis of clinical cases in the light of different grids and models applying the syllabus.
6- Develop conceptual reading work and bibliographic research, skills of interpretation, oral and written expression, ability to select information and critical thinking in the disciplinary area.
Syllabus:
1- Framework of Psychopathology: origins and historical and epistemological evolution to the present and some basic notions.
2- 2.1. The "normal" and the "pathological". 2.2. Mental health: Decompensation, type of symptoms and structural psychopathological organizations. 2.3. Clinical cases.
3- Anxious Frames. 3.1. Types of symptoms. 3.2. neuroses. 3.3. P. of Anxiety; P. Obsessive-compulsive; P. of Somatic Symptoms; P. Trauma and Stress Factors; Q. Dissociative.
4- Borderline organizations. P. Borderline and Other Personality Pathologies.
5- Depressions. Polymorphy. DSM 5: P. Depressive (adult and senescent) and P. Bipolar. ep. manic, hypomanic, and melancholy.
6- Psychoses. P. Psychotics.
7- Psychopathology of Aging and Senescence. 7.1. Dynamics of Aging. 7.2. Differential semiology. Senility, depression and dementia. 7.3. Nosology and nosography of the clinical conditions most associated with senescence.
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
Teaching Unit 1 - The syllabus privileges the acquisition of references that constitute the psychopathology of adults and senescence, the origin and evolution of conceptions and theories, practices and methods.
Teaching Units 2 to 6 - The study of the main psychopathological conditions of adults is promoted in the light of different approaches and dimensions (clinical, nosographic, phenomenological, psychodynamic-structural), with application to practical cases (bibliography, and observation of consultations).
Teaching Unit 7 - It promotes the understanding of aging and senescence, the distinction of fundamental semiological notions, and knowledge of the main psychopathological and nosological conditions of senescence in the light of different dimensions, and applications to clinical cases (bibliography and observation of consultations) promoting the acquisition of skills.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
The teaching methodology will include the exposition, analysis and application of the conceptual and methodological foundations of adult and senescent psychopathology. The learning of the syllabus is promoted, based on the presentation in class by the teacher, the reading and analysis of bibliographies and the analysis of clinical cases based on the distinction of dimensions of psychopathological functioning. In addition, the oral participation of students, dialogue and exercises on the contents under study, non-face-to-face work on the topics covered. Assessment is continuous, based on a written test in person and on a group work on a topic of the program. These two elements of continuous assessment have the respective rating of 70% and 30%.
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
Teaching Units 1 and 2 will be the subject of a descriptive and commented exposition, in order to organize and guide the study of psychopathology in its various aspects and dimensions, and thus to support theoretical knowledge and the development of applied notions. Teaching Units 3 to 7 will be the subject of a descriptive exposition of the main clinical conditions and psychopathological disorders of Adults and Senescents, as well as analysis of clinical cases, in order to promote knowledge and skills of understanding and diagnosis. The observation of consultations subsequently encompasses their discussion with the consultation psychologist and the teacher, recording, analysis in the light of different dimensions and models (phenomenological, classifying, psychopathological and dynamic) and diagnostic elaboration, promoting knowledge and skills of differential analysis, understanding of different levels, dimensions and diagnosis in psychopathology.
Reading:
American Psychological Association (2014). DSM-5 – Manual de Diagnóstico e Estatística das Perturbações Mentais. Climepsi.
Barnhill, J. (2018). DSM-5 Casos clínicos. Climepsi.
Correira, D. (2014). Manual de psicopatologia. Lidel.
Firmino, H., Simões, M., & Cerejeira, J. (2016). Saúde mental das pessoas mais velhas. Lidel.
Lingiardi, V., & Mcwilliams, N. (2017). Psychodynamic diagnostic manual. (2nd Ed.). Guilford.
Charrier, P., & Ambrosi, H. (2006). Os estados-limite. Climepsi.
Matos, M. (2019). Mecanismos de defesa. In Nunes et al. (Coord.), Comportamento e saúde mental. Pactor.
Matos, M. (2019). Neuroses vs. psicoses. In Nunes et al. (Coord.), Comportamento e saúde mental. Pactor.
Nordgaard, L., & Parnas, J. (2013). The psychiatric interview: Validity, structure, and subjectivity. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 263(4), 353–364. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00406-012-0366-z