Aims

- to familiarize the students with the questions, methods and data of current psychoepidemiology and to define the place of psychoepidemiology in the development of knowledge in clinical psychology on one hand and in the organisation of mental health care and of prevention on the other hand.

Main themes

- Historical introduction to psychepidemiologic approach
- Principles and methods of descriptive, analytical and experimental psychoepidemiology
- Psychoepidemiology as a tool in fundamental research and in applied research.
- Elements of epidemiology in clinical psychology: current psychoepidemiological knowledge in the field of psychosis, anxiety, mood and abuses and of the addiction to psychoactive substances.

Content and teaching methods

- to familiarize the students with the questions, methods and data of current psychoepidemiology and to define the place of psychoepidemiology in the development of knowledge in clinical psychology on one hand and in the organisation of mental health care and of prevention on the other hand.

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

Lectures with proposed readings on psychoepidemiological aspects related to the final works of the students.