Psicopatologia Clinica Aplicada
Main language of instruction: Spanish
Other languages of instruction: Catalan
Head instructor
Dra. Esperanza Luisa GÓMEZ - elgomez@uic.es
Office hours
Prof. Dra. Esperanza Gómez Duran: elgomez@uic.es
The subject Clinical Applied Psychopathology aims to deepen the psychopathological knowledge updated on the most relevant pictures from the forensic point of view, at the graduate level.
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Recognize the different psychopathological disorders that occur in adulthood
Know the relevance of psychopathology in the field of clinical and forensic psychology.
Know the clinical manifestations and the evolutionary course of psychopathological disorders.
Know the risk factors that are linked to each of the psychopathological disorders and the underlying pathophysiological bases.
Formulate hypotheses and identify the factors that determine the problem behavior.
Adapt language to scientific and technical knowledge in relation to semiology.
Summarize the essential information to facilitate the process of formulating a clinical case.
Recognize the main etiological influences in the disorders and clinical problems of the adult stage.
Recognize the psychopathological manifestations of each disorder, the associated symptoms and epidemiological trends.
Identify functional variables of acquisition and maintenance of problems and disorders in examples of clinical cases.
Topic 1: Introduction to Clinical Psychopathology.
Topic 2: Mood Disorders
Topic 3: Sexual and sexual identity disorders
Topic 4: Childhood and adolescence disorders
Topic 5: Cross-cultural psychiatry
Topic 6: Personality disorders
Topic 7: Dementia and other cognitive disorders
Topic 8: Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders
Topic 9: Substance-related disorders
Topic 10: Adaptive, anxiety, fictitious, dissociative and somatomorphic disorders.
The methodology of this subject is divided as follows:
Class attendance. A minimum of 80% of attendance to face-to-face sessions will be required in order to be evaluated and satisfactorily pass the subject.
Final examination of the test subject. 60% of the final grade.
Directed Case Studies: continuous evaluation. It will be 20% of the grade.
Bibliographic review: It will be 20% of the grade.
Final examination must be above 5 in order to apply the rest of grades.
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Sadock, B.J. y Sadok, V.A. (2004) Sinopsis de Psiquiatría (9ª Ed.). Madrid: Waberly Hispanica S.A.
Barlow D. and Nathan, P. (2010). The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Psychology. Oxford University Press
Vallejo Ruiloba, J. (2011). Introducción a la psicopatología y psiquiatría. (8ª Ed.) Barcelona: Masson.