Enrollment year
2018/2019
Academic discipline
MED/39 (CHILD NEUROPSYCHIATRY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, NEUROSCIENCE, EXPERIMENTAL AND FORENSIC MEDICINE
Course
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (01/10/2019 - 24/01/2020)
Lesson hours
16 lesson hours
Learning outcomes
1. knowing the basis of the neurological and psychiatric semeiology in children and adolescents
2. knowing the major disorders in child neuropsychiatry:
I. epidemiology
II. etiopatogenesis
III. symptoms
IV. diagnostic issues
V. treatment
VI. rehabilitation
Course contents
• Basis of the neurological and psychiatric semeiology in children and adolescents
• Static and progressive encephalopaties
• Epilepsy
• Intellectual disability
• Early years psychopathology (and in particular Autism Spectrum Disorders)
• Childhood psychopathology
• Adolescent psychopathology
• Specific Learning Disorders and learning disabilities
• ADHD
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Reccomended or required readings
Lanzi G, Balottin U. Argomenti di neuropsichiatria infantile. Italian University Press, 2013
Chiappedi M. Psicometria: dalla teoria alla pratica. Edizioni Anfora, 2012
Lanzi G, Chiappedi M. Riabilitare il bambino o la paralisi cerebrale infantile? La Goliardica Pavese, 2007
Assessment methods
Written exam
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030