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Theoretical Bases of Clinical Medicine 2-3
Learning outcomes
TBL LESSON: 08 Antonín Valda – Introduction to Psychiatry [Eliška Bartečková]
Upon completion of this instructional unit, the student will be able to:
• Define psychiatry as a discipline.
• Explain the distinctions between psychiatry and other medical disciplines.
• Define mental disorder and mental health.
• Explain the difference between symptom, syndrome, and disorder in psychiatry.
• Describe the characteristics of groups of psychiatric diagnoses.
• Describe the course variations of mental disorders.
• Explain the principles of diagnostic manuals in psychiatry.
• Explain the significance of paraclinical investigations in psychiatry.
• Describe the data on the prevalence of mental disorders.
• Describe the characteristic age of onset of different mental disorders.
• Describe the importance of different neurotransmitter systems in psychiatry.
• List indications for involuntary hospitalization and treatment.
• Recognize situations in which a patient may be hospitalized and treated without consent.
• List the characteristics and indications of therapeutic modalities in psychiatry.
• Propose the use of specific therapeutic modalities for psychiatric syndromes and groups of
diagnoses.
• Define the characteristics and indications of groups of psychopharmaceuticals.
• Explain basic psychopathological terms.
• Recognize the basic psychiatric syndromes.