CHILD NEUROPSYCHIATRY
NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE
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| 2022/2023 | 5 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Chiara Gagliardi | Monday 16.00 |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course aims to illustrate the main theoretical and methodological constructs of childhood neuropsychiatry. In particular, presenting the basics of the processes of neuropsychological and psychopathological development in the developmental age. The main clinical frameworks concerning child development will then be addressed in order to offer students the basic knowledge essential for professional activity.
Program
Teaching will take place in the second semester.
Specifically, the course aims to promote the following specific educational objectives:
- Who is the Child Neuropsychiatrist and what role does he play in childcare services?
- The system of specialized services for the developmental age;
- The psychomotor development of the child: cognitive, motor, emotional-affective linguistic development and social skills and theories on neurodevelopment;
- Psychopathological and manual dystonic pictures:
- Intellectual disability: characteristics, etiology clinical manifestations, Law 104 and Law 170;
- Autism spectrum disorders and Apserger syndrome main features, etiology and clinical variability;
- Communication disorder and speech disorders;
- Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder or ADHD and Specific learning disorders (DSA);
- Disturbances of sleep;
- Sphincter control disorders: enuresis and encopresi;
- Disturbances in the diet;
- Anxiety disorders and mood disorders in childhood;
- Psychopathology of adolescence: Eating disorders, Behavior disorders, Psychotic onset, Self-harm and suicide attempts.
- Psychoeducational interventions and support for gentiorialità.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and understanding (knowledge and understanding):
- Knowledge of the main theories of psychomotor development and psychopathological frameworks in the developmental age;
- Ability to distinguish and compare theoretical and methodological approaches in childhood neuropsychiatry.
Applied knowledge and understanding (applying knowledge and understanding):
- Knowledge and understanding of the concepts and theories provided by the course;
- Ability to recognize psychopathological pictures;
- Ability to analyze the characteristics of psychopathologies presented during the course with reference to the theories underlying them;
- Knowing how to identify the main survey tools that can be used in educational contexts.
Judgment autonomy (making judgements):
- Ability to identify the main characteristics of psychopathology presented;
- Ability to discriminate differences between different psychopathological frameworks;
- Ability to evaluate different hypotheses of intervention.
Communication skills (communication skills):
- Ability to use the specific technical language of the subject;
- Know how to illustrate the psychopathological pictures presented;
- Ability to interpret diagnostic relationships.
Learning skills (learning skills):
- Ability to critically illustrate and evaluate the theories and foundations of matter;
- Know how to argue the different aspects characterizing the psychopathological frameworks presented;
- Knowing how to identify and plan possible interventions to address the various psychopathologies within educational contexts.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lessons with the use of slides in power point; video; experts.
- Attendance
Attendance is highly recommended, in order to understand the complex concepts that characterize the subject and because during the lessons specific teaching materials will be provided.
- Course books
Guidetti, V. (Ed.). (2016). Fondamenti di neuropsichiatria dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza. Il Mulino.
- Assessment
The test consists of 31 multiple choice questions; sufficiency presupposes the correct answer to at least 9 questions.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Individual study
- Course books
Guidetti, V. (Ed.). (2016). Fondamenti di neuropsichiatria dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza. Il Mulino.
- Assessment
The test consists of 31 multiple choice questions; sufficiency presupposes the correct answer to at least 9 questions.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
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