Foundations of International Psychiatry

Description

This course aims to provide you with a more nuanced understanding of the role of a psychiatrist, as well as to help you develop clinical skills and therapeutic relationships. Some of the key themes central to this course are understanding the impact of mental illness in society and ethics in medicine. This course is intended to provide fundamental background knowledge as well as practical skills applicable to any mental health clinical setting.

Syllabus :

1. Course introduction & communication

• Building a Therapeutic Relationship

 

2. Clinical skills

• Taking a Psychiatric History
• Case Study - Depression

 

3. Mental state examination

• The Process of Mental State Examination and its Reporting
• The Affect in the Mental State Examination
• The Thought Process in the Mental State Examination
• Thought Content and the Delusion

 

4. The Biopsychosocial Model

• Case Study - Psychosis
• The Biopsychosocial Model

 

5. Psychiatry in Society

• What is Culture?
• Culture and Mental Health
• Introduction to Cultural Competence
• Cultural Competence: Assessment Skills
• Cultural Competence: The Competent Clinician

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