UCL - Child psychiatry: psychopathology of the everyday life

[PSYC2151]

[15h] 2 credits

This course is taught in the 1st semester.

Teacher(s): Anne Wintgens

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

To sensitize the non psychiatrist's doctors (mainly general practitioners and pediatrists) with a manner of being and of making in first line when the are confronted with daily psychopathologist problems in the childhood

Main themes

Each course's unit (2 hours) develops a topic, for example: anorexia, infant's insomnia, enuresis, encopresy, very anxious children, aggressive children, nervous children, tics, the school failure, adverse children, sexual problems, etc.
The developed topics is the occasion to understand
- How to locate infantile psychopathology?
- What is indicating of gravity?
- Why certain psychopathological mechanisms are set up;?
- what can we make and say : How to speak with the child and his parents... role about listening, information, the council... In what consists the guidance of the parents, therapy of support of the child? When to think of medication in the childhood? When separate the child from his family? How to collaborate with the network?

Content and teaching methods

Varied topics of infantile psychopathology are approached, by taking care of their "daily" dimension, i.e. with the fact that they are likely to be presented at the cabinet of the general practitioner and the pediatrists, and that they are likely to be treated by those, at least partly. The nature of the topics approached is variable in reference to cases presented. We center us on the clinical location, some large etiopathogenic's mechanisms, and on the components of the treatment in first line.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Evaluation: oral examination: to discuss a case study.
Support: cases discussions, videos.
To consult the syllabus "Introduction to the psychopathology and the child's psychiatry" (Prof JY Hayez) who gives synthetic informations.