Objectives and competences
The student will:
• get to know the importance of psychopharmacology in the context of therapy and of prevention of mental disorders,
• get to know and understand the mechanisms of action of mental health drugs, their effects drugs on the brain and whole organism and to know about the fate of drugs in the organism.
Content (Syllabus outline)
? Psychopharmacology and Multidimensional and Transdisciplinary Integrative Treatment.
? Antipsychotics: Medicines for Treatment of psychotic disorders.
? Antidepressants: Medicines for treatmnt of depresive disorders.
? Mood stabilizers: medicine for Treatment of bipolar disorders.
? Anxiolitics: Medicine for Treatment of Anxiety disorders.
? Hypnotics: Medicines for treatment of Sleep Disorders.
? Neurotrophics or Cognitive Enhancers: Medicines fotDementias.
? Placebo and Nocebo Effects and Responses.
? Precise and Person-Centered psychopharmacology.
? Value-based and Narrative Psychopharmacology
Learning and teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorial
Clinical work
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
know and understand fundamentals of basic and clinical psychopharmacology,
• create favorable therapeutic context and relationships with patients,
• define placebo and eliminating nocebo effects,
• know disease narrative, therapeutic narrative, personal recovery narrative,
• foster patient's creativity.
Readings
Temeljna literatura/Basic literature:
Behere, P. B., Das, A. & Behere, A. P., 2019. Clinical psychopharmacology: an update. Berlin: Springer Singapore.
Tracy, M. F. & O'Grady, E. T., 2018. Hamric & Hanson's Advanced Practice Nursing-E-Book: An Integrative Approach. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Dodatna literatura/Additional literature:
Jakovljević M: Kreativna psihofarmakoterapija. Pro mente d.o.o. Zagreb, 2016.
Jakovljevic M & Abou-Salex MT: Person Centered Psychopharmacotherapy. In Mezzich JE, Botbol M, Christodoulou GN, Cloninger CR & Salloum IM (ur): Person Centered Psychiatry, 235-245. Springer, 2016.
Jakovljevic M: Creative person-centered psychopharmacology in treatment resistance in psychiatry. U KimYK (ur): Treatment Resistance in Psychiatry: Risk Factors, Biology, and Management, 273-293. Springer 2018
Prerequisits
Prerequisites for taking the course:
None.
Conditions for fulfilling study obligations:
Active participation in a tutorial and preparation of project. Attendance is checked.
