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Pathopsychology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:15.06.2021 14:54:06
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VPUPK_162 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Psychology; Clinical Psychology | Target Audience: | Psychology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Jeļena Koļesņikova | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 5 J. Asara Street, vppk rsu[pnkts]lv, +37167061587 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 12 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 24 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 2 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 4 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Personality psychology, Developmental psychology, Clinical psychology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Provide an overview of the terminology of pathopsychology, its directions and to promote students' understanding of the disease as a process, changes in mental processes in case of an illness. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | History of abnormal behaviour. Methodology, research methods and descriptions of mental development disorders. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Pathopsychology: mental retardation, epilepsy, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, autism, neurosis and psychosomatic diseases, psychopathy, attention deficit, hyperactivity. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Pathopsychology and cognitive processes, their changes in dynamics. Disorders of memory, perception, thinking, attention. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Emotional and willpower disorders. Pathopsychology and affect. Pathological characteristics of affect and regulation mechanisms. Affective psychosis. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Manifestations of pathopsychology in behaviour. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Importance and possibilities of psychological counselling and assessment. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Biopsychosocial model and care in a multidisciplinary team. Ethical aspects of working with people with mental disabilities. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | History of abnormal behaviour. Methodology, research methods and descriptions of mental development disorders. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Pathopsychology: mental retardation, epilepsy, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, autism, neurosis and psychosomatic diseases, psychopathy, attention deficit, hyperactivity. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Pathopsychology and cognitive processes, their changes in dynamics. Disorders of memory, perception, thinking, attention. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Emotional and willpower disorders. Pathopsychology and affect. Pathological characteristics of affect and regulation mechanisms. Affective psychosis. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Manifestations of pathopsychology in behaviour. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Importance and possibilities of psychological counselling and assessment. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Biopsychosocial model and care in a multidisciplinary team. Ethical aspects of working with people with mental disabilities. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Preparing in advance and active participation in seminars, group work, case studies (according to a certain plan), preparing a presentation. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | 1) active participation in seminars (10%). 2) case analysis (according to a certain plan) work in groups, presentation 5-7 min., prepare 2 questions for group discussion (40%). 3) examination (10 questions) (50%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students classify mental development disorders, their symptoms, manifestations and describe the process of their formation in the context of the biopsychosocial model. Students describe the methodology and research methods for evaluating mental development disorders and the ethical aspects of working with people with mental disabilities. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students apply knowledge to formulate the pathopsychology of human cognitive and affective processes. Students define the boundaries of a psychologist's professional work in a multidisciplinary team with people with mental disabilities. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students use the acquired knowledge of mental development disorders in order to choose a research method for evaluation according to the specifics of the disorder. Independently describe the limits of a psychologist's competence in working with people with mental disabilities and set the limits in professional work. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Andrew S. Davis, P. (2013). Psychopathology of Childhood and Adolescence : A Neuropsychological Approach. Springer Publishing Company. | ||||||||
| 2 | Bayles, K. A., & Tomoeda, C. K. (2013). MCI and Alzheimer’s Dementia: Clinical Essentials for Assessment and Treatment of Cognitive-communication Disorders. Plural Publishing, Inc. | ||||||||
| 3 | Butcher, J. N., Hooley, J. M., Mineka, S. M., & Nock, M. K. (2017). Abnormal Psychology. Pearson Higher Ed USA. | ||||||||
| 4 | Oyebode, F. (2018). Sims' Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology, 6th edition. Edinburgh: Elsevier. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Adshead, G., & Brown, C. (2003). Ethical Issues in Forensic Mental Health Research. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. | ||||||||
| 2 | Andreasen, N. & Black, D. (2001). Introductory text book of psychiatry. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, Inc. | ||||||||
| 3 | Liepiņa, S. (2003). Speciālā psiholoģija. RaKa. | ||||||||
| 4 | Rabins, P. V., & Black, B. S. (2010). Ethical issues in geriatric psychiatry. International Review Of Psychiatry, 22(3), 267-273. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Aging & Mental Health | ||||||||
| 2 | Health & Quality of Life Outcomes | ||||||||
| 3 | International Journal of Disability, Development and Education | ||||||||
| 4 | Psychological Assessment | ||||||||
