5.5. Health-Threatening Emergencies in Psychiatry
1655-LekM5STNPSY-J
The seminars are designed to provide knowledge on the most common health threats to patients due to various reasons, such as: suicidal tendencies, suicides, dangerous behaviors for the environment, acute mental disorders e.g. acute anxiety, acute psychotic disorders, acute neurotic disorders, acute depression, acute mania, acute disorders caused by the intake of psychoactive substances, including new psychoactive substances, the so-called highs.
The tutorials are to provide knowledge on how to make contact with a patient in a life-threatening condition in order to collect an interview; which medical examinations should be carried out, if necessary, after the application of direct coercion measures; how to apply direct coercion to patients who are in a life-threatening condition in accordance with the law and the Act on the Protection of Mental Health; how to make a diagnosis for the somatic basis of the disorder and how to properly examine the patient's psychological condition for the psychiatric basis of the disorder in order to establish the initial diagnosis and implementation of appropriate therapeutic management.
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Term 2022/23:
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Term 2023/24:
The seminars are designed to provide knowledge on the most common health threats to patients due to various reasons, such as: suicidal tendencies, suicides, dangerous behaviors for the environment, acute mental disorders e.g. acute anxiety, acute psychotic disorders, acute neurotic disorders, acute depression, acute mania, acute disorders caused by the intake of psychoactive substances, including new psychoactive substances, the so-called highs.
The tutorials are to provide knowledge on how to make contact with a patient in a life-threatening condition in order to collect an interview; which medical examinations should be carried out, if necessary, after the application of direct coercion measures; how to apply direct coercion to patients who are in a life-threatening condition in accordance with the law and the Act on the Protection of Mental Health; how to make a diagnosis for the somatic basis of the disorder and how to properly examine the patient's psychological condition for the psychiatric basis of the disorder in order to establish the initial diagnosis and implementation of appropriate therapeutic management. |
Total student workload
1. Study hours involving teacher participation:
- tutorials – 10 hours,
- seminars – 8 hours;
- conducting a written credit: 0,33 hours
Study hours involving teacher participation:
18,33 hours, which is 0,73 ECTS.
2. Study hours involving individual student work:
- attendance in the seminaries: 8 hours
- attendance in the tutorials: 10 hours
- preparing for tutorials: 3 hours
- reading the literature: 5,66 hours
- preparing for the credit+ credit= 3+0,33= 3,33 hours
Study hours involving individual student work: 30 hours, which is 1,2 ECTS.
3. Study hours involving conducting scientific research:
- reading the literature: 3,5 hours
- attendance in tutorials: 7 hours
- attendance in seminaries: 5 hours
- preparing for the credit: 1,5 hours
Study hours involving conducting scientific research:17 hours, which is 0,68 ECTS.
4. The time needed for preparing and evaluation of marking:
preparing for the credit+ credit= 3+0,33= 3,33 hours, which is 0,13 ECTS.
5. Study hours involving individual student work (practical):
- attendance in tutorials: 7 hours
- attendance in seminaries+ credit (practical): 5,3 hours
Study hours involving individual student work (practical): 12,3 hours, which is 0,49 ECTS.
6. The time needed for a practical training:
Not applicable .
Learning outcomes - knowledge
E.W1.presents issues of child maltreatment and abuse, sexual abuse, mental retardation, behavioral disorders: psychosis, substance-related disorders and eating disorders in children (EK_W4)
E.W2. presents the causes, the general symptomatology of mental disorders ,principles of diagnosis and the principles of their classification according to the main classification systems (EK_W16)
E.W.3. describes symptoms of mental disorders observed in somatic disorders and evaluates their influence on the main mental disorder and treatment (EK_W20)
E.W4. describes the symptoms for the diagnosis and therapeutic
treatment of the most common mental disorders, including:
a schizophrenia
b. mood disorders (affective disorders)
c. trauma and stressor-related disorders
c) eating disorders,
d) substance-related disorders (EK_W17)
E.W5.presents the principles of diagnosis and management in emergency psychiatry, after suicidal attempts (EK_W18)
E.W6. presents the characteristics of mental disorders and their treatment in children, youth and elderly people (EK_W19)
E.W7. follow the rules concerning mental health protection, with particular emphasis on the rules of admission to psychiatric hospital (EK_W22).
Learning outcomes - skills
E.U1. performs medical interview with patients according to an algorythm (E K_U05)
E.U2. evaluates somatic and psychiatric condition of patients (K_U13)
E.U3. performs a full physical examination, (laboratory tests, neuroimmagining) of patients (E K_U16)
E.U4. conducts an evaluation of the side effects of the drugs and their interactions (E. K_U17)
E.U.5. proposes the appropriate direction of the treatment and propose alternative methods of the treatment due to ineffective treatment (E K_U18)
E.U6. recognizes the symptoms of drug-resistance (E K_U19)
E.U.7. plans an accurate treatment (E K_U19)
E.U. 8. decides about the form of the treatment (E K_U20)
Learning outcomes - social competencies
K1: understands the importance of having a friendly, full of understanding and respect attitude towards patients suffering from mental disorders and shows respect to outlook and cultural differences (K_K03)
K2: guides by the well-being of the psychiatric patient, putting him first (K_K04)
K3: can keep a medical confidentiality and retains all rights of a psychiatric patient (K_K05)
K4: undertakes actions towards a psychiatric patient based on ethical principles, aware of social conditions and restrictions resulting from the disease (K_K08)
Teaching methods
Tutorials:
- clinical activities
- case reports analysis
- film
Seminaries:
- didactic discussion
- case reports analysis
- debate
Expository teaching methods
- discussion
Exploratory teaching methods
- case study
- practical
- seminar
Online teaching methods
- content-presentation-oriented methods
- exchange and discussion methods
Type of course
compulsory course
Prerequisites
A student should have a knowledge from psychology, psychology of stress, selected mental disorders and addictions as lifestyle diseases.
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
Tutorials:: Practical checking of knowledge- interview with a patient(0-30 points )≥ 60%
W3-W7; U1-U3; U5-U8
Prolonged observation (>60%): K1-K4
Seminaries: written test: (0-12 points ≥60%): W1, W2; U4
Prolonged observation (>60%): K1, K2
The student will get a credit of the course on the basis of the positive result of practical credit and written test (≥60%- pass)
Practical placement
Bibliography
Booklist
Basic: Crash Course Psychiatry, 5th Edition. Datta & Marwick & Xiu. Elsevier, 2018.
II. Additional:
1.Synopsis of Psychiatry : Behavioral Sciences Clinical Psychiatry by Harold I Kaplan, Benjamin J. Sadock 11th Edition, 2015
2. ICD-10; 1994; 2016
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Term 2022/23:
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Term 2023/24:
Booklist
Basic: Crash Course Psychiatry, 5th Edition. Datta & Marwick & Xiu. Elsevier, 2018.
II. Additional:
1.Synopsis of Psychiatry : Behavioral Sciences Clinical Psychiatry by Harold I Kaplan, Benjamin J. Sadock 11th Edition, 2015
2. ICD-10; 1994; 2016
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