Child Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry

- Recognizing and define the main psychic functions and identifying the physiological and pathological forms typical of early developmental stages, highlighting differences and similarities with disorders of adulthood
- T the main categories of psychiatric nosography, highlighting the most frequent syndromic manifestations.
- Distinguishing the psychological distress resulting from organic pathologies from actual psychiatric disorders.
- Knowing the general lines of possible psychotherapeutic interventions and some notions of psychiatric legislation.
- Knowing the clinical pictures of some most common forms of desablement: psychic functions and their psychopathological alterations; main categories of psychiatric pathology; psychotic disorders; mood disorders; anxiety disorders; notes on somatoform disorders and dissociative disorders; eating disorders; personality disorders; syndromes and organic mental disorders.
- Knowing the different types of psychotherapy and their indications.
- Being able to obtain the main information on psychiatric clinical conditions from the hospital medical records

At the end of the course the student must be able to know the main pathologies of childhood neuropsychiatry, in particular the psychiatric pathologies that manifest themselves in children and adolescents and be able to draw the main information on the conditions from the hospital medical records to obtain useful information in the rehabilitation treatment of patients.
Furthermore, the student must have a basic knowledge of therapeutic possibilities in this area especially with regard to the psychotherapeutic area.