Community Mental Health

1. Describe various functional psychiatric disorders.
2. Explain the concept of schizophrenia and mood disorders.
3. Discuss therapeutic modalities in psychiatry.
4. Explain the concept of crisis intervention and community mental health.
5. Discuss the legal aspects of mental health.
6. Explain methods of assessment in psychiatry.
7. Outline the various drugs used in psychiatry.

13 weeks, about 45 hours in total. Yours will differ.

1. Week 1Module 1: Functional Psychiatric Disorders – Affective I

   • Unit 1: Schizophrenia · 3 hours

     Read Unit 1: Understand the definition, epidemiology, and etiology of schizophrenia.. Review Schneider's First-Rank Symptoms (SFRS) and clinical features.. Complete the self-assessment exercise on the etiological factors associated with schizophrenia..

2. Week 2Module 1: Functional Psychiatric Disorders – Affective I

   • Unit 2: Mood Disorders · 3 hours

     Study Unit 2: Identify different types of mood disorders and their classifications.. Compare and contrast mania and depression, and differentiate between endogenous and reactive depression.. Review the biological and psychosocial theories related to mood disorders..

3. Week 3Module 1: Functional Psychiatric Disorders – Affective I

   • Unit 3: Psychoneurosis · 3 hours

     Study Unit 3: Differentiate between psychosis and neurosis.. Classify psychoneurosis and describe phobic anxiety disorder.. Explain somatoform disorders and their characteristics..

4. Week 4Module 2: ORGANIC MENTAL DISORDERS

   • Unit 1: Organic Mental Disorders · 3 hours

     Read Unit 1: Understand the classification of organic mental disorders.. Describe the manifestations of dementia and explain delirium.. Review mental disorders due to brain damage..

5. Week 5Module 3:

   • Unit1: Drug Abuse and Drug Addiction · 3 hours

     Study Unit 1: Define drug abuse and drug addiction, and differentiate between them.. List commonly abused drugs and enumerate the causes of drug abuse.. Review the principles of diagnosis and the guide to managing substance abuse crises..

   • Unit 2: Alcoholism · 3 hours

     Study Unit 2: Define alcoholism and state its types.. List the causes and explain the effects of alcoholism.. Enumerate the stages of alcoholism and describe its complications and treatment..

6. Week 6Module 4:

   • Unit 1: Epilepsy · 3 hours

     Study Unit 1: Describe epilepsy and identify its causes.. List the clinical types of epilepsy and discuss the diagnosis of epilepsy.. Explain the management of epilepsy, including status epilepticus and febrile convulsions..

7. Week 7Module 4:

   • Unit 2: Therapeutic Modalities in Psychiatry I · 3 hours

     Study Unit 2: Describe therapeutic modalities in psychiatry, including somatic therapies.. Explain electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and its indications and contraindications.. Discuss the management of a patient undergoing ECT..

8. Week 8Module 4:

   • Unit 3: Therapeutic Modalities in Psychiatry II (Psychological Therapy) · 3 hours

     Study Unit 3: Describe psychological therapy, including psychoanalytic, behavioral, and cognitive therapies.. Explain hypnosis, abreaction, and relaxation therapies.. Differentiate between individual, group, family, and marital therapies..

9. Week 9Module 4:

   • Unit 4: Therapeutic Modalities in Psychiatry III · 3 hours

     Study Unit 4: Describe milieu therapy and explain how to maintain it.. State the components of milieu therapy and explain therapeutic community.. List the aims and components of activity therapy and describe its implications..

10. Week 10Module 5:

    • Unit 1: Crisis Intervention · 3 hours

      Study Unit 1: Define crisis and grief.. List the characteristics of individuals prone to crisis and enumerate the types of crisis.. Describe the resolution of crisis and the stages of grief, and explain how grief is resolved..

11. Week 11Module 5:

    • Unit 2: Community Mental Health Nursing · 3 hours

      Study Unit 2: Describe the aims of community mental health care.. List the methods used in practicing community psychiatry.. Discuss the roles of community psychiatric practitioners..

12. Week 12Module 5:

    • Unit 3: Legal aspects of Mental Health Nursing · 3 hours

      Study Unit 3: State the similarities and dissimilarities between psychiatry and law.. Explain the essence of law in psychiatry.. Explain when and why a patient must be compulsorily admitted to hospital, detained for care, and discharged..

13. Week 13Module 6:

    • Unit 1: Methods of Assessment in Psychiatry · 3 hours

      Study Unit 1: Explain how history taking of psychiatric patients is carried out.. Discuss the process of mental status examination.. Describe the physical investigations carried out on psychiatric patients..

    • Unit 4: Behavioural Syndromes · 3 hours

      Study Unit 4: Describe the concept of psychophysiological and neurotic disorders.. List common examples of psychophysiological disorders.. Explain sleep disorders and their management..