LEARNING OUTCOMES

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AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The teaching aims to

- provide students with the basics of child neuropsychiatry

- provide students with a general understanding of psychomotor, cognitive and emotional development and of the interaction between biological, psychological, family and socio-environmental aspects

- to introduce the issues related to the main disorders in Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, with particular reference to Intellectual Disabilities, Infantile Cerebral Palsy, Developmental Epilepsies, Febrile Convulsions, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Food Behavior Disorders, anxiety, mood, thought and in general psychic distress, especially in adolescence

- have students acquire neurological and psychiatric evaluation skills in developmental age, related to psychomotor, cognitive and relational development; skills in the field of global and multidisciplinary care and in interventions on the problems, also aimed at activating the early recognition of the disorders, the prevention of disability and the promotion of mental health.

EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS

At the end of the course the student will be able to

• know the basic elements of child neuropsychiatry,

know the basic elements of the main psychopathological disorders in the Neuropsychiatry of infancy and adolescence, with particular reference to Intellectual Disabilities, Infantile Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy and Developmental epileptic syndromes, Febrile convulsions, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Food conduct Disorders, disorders of anxiety, mood, thought and disorders about general characteristics of mental illness

• classify the main clinical forms

• understand the principles of disorders treatment in Child Neuropsychiatry, with particular attention to disability and mental disorders, with a view to planning therapeutic interventions and qualifications

• recognize the disorders in question, especially at an early stage

• analytically describe the related signs and symptoms

• apply the main diagnostic and therapeutic criteria

• critically evaluate the pathogenic factors in the role

• to distinguish these disorders from similar forms, in differential diagnosis

• building the bases of diagnostic-therapeutic-care pathways and outlining the basic principles of multidisciplinary care, the early recognition of disorders, the prevention of disability and the promotion of mental health

• explain to the families and, to the extent practicable, the problems and the diagnostic-therapeutic approach to be implemented.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures with space for interactivity, awareness raising increasing of observation skills, continuous training and EBM practices

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Psychomotor and emotional development

Intellectual Disabilities

Infantile Cerebral Palsy

Epilepsies and epileptic syndromes of the developmental age; febrile convulsions

Problems related to disorders of anxiety, mood, thought

Autism Spectrum Disorders

Eating behavior disorders

Neurological and neuropsychiatric evaluation in childhood under different conditions

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Maurizio de Negri “Neuropsichiatria dell’età evolutiva” Ed. Piccin, Padova, 2004.

Slides of lessons, to supplement the text.