Psychiatry - DA1110317

• Title: Psychiatry
• Form of teaching: lecture+practicals
• Guaranteed by: Department of Paediatric Psychiatry (13-443)
• Faculty: Second Faculty of Medicine
• Actual: from 2025
• Duration in semesters: 1
• Semester: winter
• Points: 4
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/90, C+Ex [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 3 [weeks]
• Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
• Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Repeated enrollment: 1 / 1 / 1 / 1
• Guarantor: doc. MUDr. Iva Dudová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. MUDr. Iva Dudová, Ph.D.
• Classification: Medicine > Clinical Disciplines
• Pre-requisite : DA1108363

Annotation

Psychopathological terminology, psychiatric examination of patient, diagnostic classification, diferential diagnosis and therapeutical approach.

Last update: Greňo Václav (20.03.2025)

Course completion requirements

80% presence at the lessons is required. Examination of the given patient required for the credit.

Last update: Greňo Václav (20.03.2025)

Literature

Sadock, B. J.: Kaplan and Sadock ́s pocket handbook of clinical psychiatry : Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 1996; 2001; 2005 (B)

Last update: Greňo Václav (20.03.2025)

Teaching methods

The subject includes the following teaching methods:

• seminars

• practical exercises

• practice

The internship takes place at clinical inpatient facilities according to the student's choice or the recommendation of the subject guarantor, always based on a valid contractual relationship between the healthcare facility and the 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University.

Last update: Greňo Václav (10.07.2025)

Course assessment methods and requirements for successful completion, grading scheme

A. General Psychiatry
1. History of modern psychiatry.

2. Medical history in psychiatry, present psychopathological status.

3. Formal thought disturbances.

4. Delusions.

5. Emotivity disturbances.

6. Memory disturbances,

7. Qualitative disturbances of consciousness.

8. Perception disturbances.

9. Sleep disturbances

10. Suicidal behavior.

11. Catatonic syndrome.

12. Phobias, obsessions, compulsions.

13. Stigma in psychiatry.

14. Psychological assessment in psychiatry.

15. Involuntary admission of mentally ill patient and the use of coercive measures,

16. Law status of mentally ill patients in psychiatry (forensic treatment, possession of guns, driving licence etc.)Tricyclic antidepressants, incl. side effects and toxicity.

17. SSRI antidepressants.

18. Antidepressants other than SSRI.

19. Benzodiazepine and non-benzodiazepine anxiolytics.

20. Mood stabilizers (lithium, carbamazepine, valproate, lamotrigine).

21. Typical antipsychotics.

22. Malignant neuroleptic syndrome.

23. Atypical antipsychotics.

24. Stimulants and atomoxetine.

25. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and other cognitive enhancers.

26. Electroconvulsive therapy.

27. Other biological treatments in psychiatry (rTMS, phototherapy etc.).

28. Deescalation techniques

29. Current trends in psychotherapy.

30. Psychotherapeutic techniques (supportive psychotherapy, art therapy, relaxation techniques).

31. Individual and group psychotherapy.

32. Family therapy.

33. Specific aspects of psychotherapy in children and adolescents.

B. Special Psychiatry (clinical picture, treatment)
1. Dementia of Alzheimer type.

2. Other dementias

3. Delirium

4. Intoxication by psychoactive substancies.

5. Dependencies on psychoactive substancies

6. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome and delirium tremens.

7. Gambling and gaming disorder.

8. Schizophrenia - symptoms

9. Schizophrenia – treatment

10. Severe mentally ill patients – long term approach (psychosocial rehabilitation, relaps prevention, community care)

11. Schizoaffective disorder, persistent delusional disorder.

12. Bipolar affective disorder – manic episode.

13. Bipolar affective disorder – depressive episode.

14. Depression.

15. Panic disorder.

16. Generalized anxiety disorder.

17. Obsessive – compulsive disorder.

18. Adjustment disorders.

19. Posttraumatic stress disorder.

20. Dissociative disorders.

21. Somatoform disorders and neurasthenia.

22. Anorexia nervosa.

23. Bulimia nervosa.

24. Borderline personality disorder

25. Personality disorders (except borderline personality disorder)

26. Sexual dysfunctions.

27. Disorders of sexual preference (paraphilias).

28. Mental retardation.

29. Childhood autism.

30. Asperger syndrome.

31. ADHD

32. Conduct disorders in childhood.

33. Separation anxiety disorder in childhood.

34. Elective mutism, Reactive attachment disorder of childhood, disinhibited attachment disorder of childhood.

35. Functional enuresis.

36. Tic disorders.

37. Psychotic illness in childhood.

38. Maltreated and abused child.

39. Psychiatric commorbidities of neurological disorders, specifics of treatment

Last update: Greňo Václav (28.08.2026)

Syllabus

MEDICAL STUDENT CURRICULUM IN PSYCHIATRY

Introduction to psychiatry. Psychopathology. Childhood autism.

Affective disorders. ADHD.

Eating disorders. Suicidality.

Psychotherapy. Psychological examination.

Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Psychotic and affective disorders in childhood.

Alcohol and substance abuse, gambling. (Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice, Pavilion 35; 8:45)

Anxiety disorders. Adjustment disorders. (Military Hospital Střešovice; 8:30)

Personality disorders. (Department of Psychiatry, Charles University, 1st Medical School, Ke Karlovu 11; 8:45)

Medical history and psychiatric examination. Dementias. Psychopharmacology and biological treatments in psychiatry. Treatment of aggressive and restless patients.

Forensic psychiatry. Work with aggressive and restless patients (Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice, Pavilion 27; 8:45)

Individual work with patients.

Individual work with patients.

Individual work with patients. Music therapy, work therapy, art therapy.

Taking a pre-exam medical history.

Clinical seminar. Discussion on medical histories taken. Credit.

This curriculum is not listed chronologically, with the exception of the first and the last day of teaching. If not otherwise specified the lectures, seminars and practical training start at 8:00 in the Seminar room at the Department of Child Psychiatry (Pavilion Nr.8), Motol Hospital.

Last update: Greňo Václav (20.03.2025)