Aim of the Teaching is to:
• Define Mental Health by contextualizing it in the national and European scenario.
• Describe the historical evolution of theoretical models, laws and the organization of psychiatric care
• Learn the basics of relational dynamics in nursing care, related to the mentally ill and their living environment, to plan and be responsible for nursing care.
• Describe the tools necessary for informed management of the communicative-relational aspects in the relationship with the patient, with the family and with the healing team.
• Describe the historical evolution of theoretical models, laws and the organisation of psychiatric care
• Recognize drug therapies - drugs and their expected and unwanted effects
• Describe the most current theoretical guidelines in psychiatry and clinical psychology (neurobiological, psychodynamic, social, etc.) and the interpretive models of psychic suffering
• Recognize psychic suffering in disease histories
• Identify the main defence mechanisms
• Identify care strategies and management methodologies (assessment tools, no restraint approaches, etc.) can be adopted to cope with the person's mental suffering (aggression, resistance to therapeutic treatments, etc.)
• Describe the main psychopathological frameworks, including problems of pathological addiction and the most frequently used drugs (indications, side effects, toxicity)
• Identify the clinical aspects that affect the phases of the patient's care diagnostic pathway (PDTA) (reception, care, treatment/planning, discharge/follow-up)
• Outline the legislative, ethical and ethical aspects and health policy guidelines on mental health
• Recognize the need to activate and involve the patient's socio-affective network in the care project also through therapeutic and rehabilitative education programs
• provide the fundamentals of psychopathology and the history of psychiatry and a basic knowledge of pathophysiology, the clinic, the nosographic classification and the treatment of the main psychiatric disorders. An overview of the organization of territorial psychiatric assistance will also be provided.
• Provide the acquisition of systematic and up-to-date knowledge in different sectors of the psychological disciplines, as well as the biological (molecular, metabolic, physiological) and clinical (neurological, psychiatric, neurobiological) ones, that are the basis of knowledge on psychic processes, and of the anthropological, epistemological and ethical disciplines fundamental for the understanding of the cultural and deontological dimension of interventions for the promotion, maintenance and recovery of health and well-being conditions within public and private institutions for individuals at all stages life span.
• provide the acquisition of operational and applicative skills, including psychodiagnostic and psychological counseling for people suffering from physical and mental, cognitive and emotional disorders, but also of updated tools for communication and information management, experience and professional skills in the field of direct services to individuals, groups, organizations and communities in the specific area of competence and for the exchange of general information.