Curricular Unit:			Code:
Applied Psychopathology			171PPAP
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
2	Undergraduate	Speech Therapy	3 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
		Portuguese	39
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: (i) know the main psychic phenomena (affection, sense-perception, memory, consciousness, thinking, language, motor activity and initiative); (ii) 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.
Syllabus:
Teaching Unit 1. Scope of Psychopathology 1.1. Health and Mental Illness 1.2. Basic notions of Psychopathology Teaching Unit 2. General Psychopathology 2.1. Affectivity 2.2. Senso-Perception 2.3. Memory 2.4. Consciousness 2.5. Thought 2.6. Language 2.7. Motor Activity 2.8. Initiative 3 Teaching Unit. Applied Psychopathology 3.1. Disorders of Childhood 3.2. Disorders of Adolescence 3.3. Disturbances of Adulthood 3.4. Disorders of Senescence
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
Knowledge of major psychic phenomena is achieved through expository, descriptive and organizational concepts of presentation of general psychopathology, so that in a second stage, students exercise the compreesão how the quantitative and qualitative changes of each psychic phenomenon manifest in major psychopathology (DSM-5) at different stages of the lifecycle.
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 50% 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 (40%) and evaluation of acquired skills (10%)
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.). Lisboa: F.C. Gulbenkian. American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th Ed.). Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association Publishing. Assumpção Jr., F.B. (2009). Fundamentos de Psicologia - Psicopatologia. Rio Janeiro: Livros Técnicos e Científicos. Maddux, J.E. & Winstead, B.A. (Eds.) (2005). Psychopathology. Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding. New Jersey: Taylor & Francis. Scharfetter, C. (2005). Introdução à Psicopatologia Geral. Lisboa: Climepsi Editores.