Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

Code:

LP403

Acronym:

PCA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psicologia e Saúde

Instance: 2006/2007 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Psychology and Education Science

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LPSI	62	Plano oficial a partir de 2001/02	4	6	11	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Having as theoretical, methodological and practical reference the child’s psychology (clinical) and development, this subject’s aims are:
- To supply explanation, comprehension and intervention models to a specific psychological approach of development and (social) behavior’s disorders, as well as the psychical and physical suffering.
- To put students in contact with situations that might value procedures to promote the theory of clinical practice and sustain self-control of the intervention’s quality in children and young people at risk or psychological suffering.

Program

1- Epistemological aspects of clinical and developmental psychopathology:
1.1 Object, methodology and theoretical frames of reference;
1.2 Psycopathology and development;
1.3 Psychopathology and structures;
1.4 Specificity of the psychological approach to development’s and social behavior’s disorders and psychic and physical suffering disorders.

2- Language of the symptoms:
2.1 Clinical psychopathology of instrumental problems (psychomotricity, speech and language, cognition and intelligence);
2.2 Clinical psychopathology of somatic expression and functional psychopathology (theory of the psychosomatic phenomena; models of somatic expression in children; clinical frames of psychosomatic pathology);
2.3 Clinical psychopathology of behavior’s problems* (sexual behavior, suicide, delinquency, drug-addiction);
2.4 Clinical psychopathology of affectivity (anguish, fears, phobias, obsessive attitudes, inhibition, depression, excitement).

3- Symptoms as speech: psychopathology’s disorders mediated by personality:
3.1 Introduction to the study of neuroses and reactive symptoms in child and young person (psychic traumatism and reactive symptom, of the record’s characterization and neurotic organizations);
3.2 Introduction to the study of limit-conditions and psychoses in child and young person (generic characterization of limit-conditions and psychotic conditions; psychoses of autistic expression, psychoses of symbiotic expression, psychoses of deficient expression).

4- Introduction to the study of development’s psychopathology:
4.1 A few remarks on ecological psychology of human development;
4.2 Competences of the new-born baby and early interaction*
4.3 The lack of maternal and paternal cares and its effects on the development of the child and the young person*;
4.4 Psychopathological approach of school difficulties.*

* Themes of practical works.

Main Bibliography

- Lang, J.-L. (1979) - Introduction à la psychopathologie infantile. Paris: Dunod.
- Lebovici, S., Diatkine, R., Soulé, R. (1985) - Traité de Psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent. Paris: P.U.F.
- Marcelli, D. (2005) – Infância e Psicopatologia. Lisboa: Climepsi
- Marcelli, D., Braconnier, A. (2005) – Adolescência e psicopatologia. Lisboa: Climepsi
- Mazet, Ph., Houzel, D. (1979) - Psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent.Paris: Maloine, 1975.
- Mazet, Ph, Stoleru, S. (2003) – Psicopatologia do lactente e da criança pequena. Lisboa: Climepsi

Complementary Bibliography

- Ajuriaguerra, J. de (1974) - Manuel de psychiatrie de l'enfant. Paris: Masson.
- Ajuriaguerra, J. de, Marcelli, D. (1982) - Psychopatologie de l'enfant. Paris: Masson.
- Lemay, M. (1976) - Le diagnostic en psychiatrie infantile. Paris: Fleurus.
- Piaget, J. (1976) - La représentation du monde chez l'enfant. Paris: P.U.F., 1926
- Weiner, I. B. (1995) - Perturbações Psicológicas na Adolescência. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

The complementary bibliography specific to each theme will be referred in the classes’ summaries and in the thematic dossiers.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Classes are organized into a theoretical-practical perspective based on the explanations given by the lecturer and theoretical-practical assignments (“P.W.”) carried out through the year by the students.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	128,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

The “P.W.”’s grade is the result of the arithmetic average of the classifications (0-20) obtained in the written and oral presentation.

Calculation formula of final grade

3. Final classification:
3.1. Besides presenting the “P.W” dossier, all students must submit a final exam including all the issues learned within the subject;
3.2. The final exam includes a written test and an oral one with a final classification on a scale of 0 to 20;
3.3. Students that obtain, in the written test, a classification lower than 7,5 won’t be approved;
3.4. Students that obtain at least 9,5 in the written test will be released from the oral one;
3.5. If the student is released from the oral test the grade of the final exam is the one obtained in the written test or, if not, it will be the arithmetic average of the classifications obtained in written and oral tests;
3.6. The final classification is the result of the weighting of 0,60 on the final exam’s grade and 0,40 on the “P.W.”’s grade.
3.7. If the student hasn’t accomplished one of the items it will be given a classification of zero values to each of the missing items.
3.8. According to the assessment rules, to the final classification it can be taken into account elements from a qualitative appreciation, which might influence the numerical calculations (arithmetic average and weighting) used to estimate the final grade.
3.9. According to the general rules of assessment to improve the final grade the student must submit to a new exam in accordance with the established in
number 3.1 and 3.2 above mentioned, without a new evaluation of the “P.W.”

Classification improvement

According to the general rules of assessment to improve the final grade the student must submit to a new exam in accordance with the established in number 3.1 and 3.2 above mentioned, without a new evaluation of the “P.W”.