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CRIM2164-1

Social Psychiatry


Duration :30h Th
Credits/ECTS :
1st "licence" in criminology3
1st year of Master's degree in criminology, specialised approach3
2nd "licence" in public health sciences: promotion of health orientation (prevention and education of hea)4
Holder(s) :Patrick Papart
Course contents : We first approach the field of social psychiatry via the major principles that underlie epidemiology and via an analysis of the environment's inducing effect in the field of psychiatry. Next the course offers a survey of what communication theory and ethology have contributed to our understanding of psychopathology.
Some major problems in social psychiatry are examined such as addictions to drugs or spirits, suicide, sexual abuse on children, psychiatric disturbances, and dangerousness.
We conclude with an introduction to various structures for psychiatric care.
Course objective : To analyse the impact of the environment on mental disease and to consider some major issues in social psychiatry.
Prerequisites : Notions of psychiatry
Links with other courses:
"Eléments de clinique psychiatrique" (to be taken before)
"Psychopathologie criminelle" (to be taken subsequently).
Organization : Structure of the course: overhead projections with videos and external witnesses such as medical anthropologists or members of an AA group.
Written notes : Syllabus.
Assessment : Written examination
Contacts : - Teacher: Prof. P. PAPART, CHU Sart Tilman - 04/ 366 72 15
- Secretary: Mme C. Gayetot, CHU Sart Tilman - 04/ 366 79 60




ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 27/02/2006
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