Part 3 (Multidisciplinary seminar)
a. Debriefing the potentially suicidal patient
b. Ethical dilemmas in DSH
c. Management of DSH
Objectives:
Understand and define suicide terminology
Know epidemiology and demographics of suicide (DSH)
Describe predisposing factors and immediate precursors of suicide (DSH)
Understand and measure suicidal intent
Assessment of suicidal (parasuicidal) patient
Management of suicidal (parasuicidal) patient
Mechanisms behind, and prevention of
Physician assisted suicide
Mass suicide
Suicidal pacts
Prevention of suicide
Women-specific Psychiatric Disorders (18.9.2013)
Part 1
Hormonal and endocrinologic changes during pregnancy, puerperium, and menopause
Attachment
Psychiatric disorders in pregnancy
Part 2 (Student-led activity)
Postpartum mood disorders
Postpartum blues
Postpartum psychosis
Part 3 (Multidisciplinary seminar)
Teratogenicity of psychotropic medication
Management of women-specific disorders
Objectives:
To understand what is Perinatal Psychiatry
Review Hormonal and endocrinologic changes during pregnancy, puerperium, and menopause.
Understand theory of Attachment
Review the main psychiatric disorders during pregnancy
Review postpartum psychiatric disorders
Psychotropics and their use in pregnancy/post-partum.
Management
Stress- Related Disorders (25.9.2013)
Part 1
The concept &Epidemiology
The psychological basis of stress
Biological correlates of stress
Short-term and long-term effects of stress
Part 2 (Student-led activity)
Relaxation exercises
Meditation
Hypnosis
Part 3 (Multidisciplinary seminar)
Personality profile of terrorist
Handling terrorism
Psychological treatment of terror victims
Objectives:
Concepts and epidemiology aiming at explaining how common we are exposed to different psychological trauma, its consequences, and different reactions to them.
personality profile of terrorist
Handling terrorism: there are different ways to prevent or ameliorate the terrorism rather than governmental security solution.
Psychological treatment of victims aiming at explaining the reality that CBT is the main treatment and not pharmacology.
Exercise: The “New” Treatment in Mental Health (2.10.2013)
Part 1
Acute and chronic effects of exercise on the organism
Role of exercise in health promotion and disease prevention
Exercise and the Neurobiology of Mood
Part 2 (Student-led activity)
Psychological effects of individual and group exercise
Over-exercise: obsession, body image and the media
Adherence: How can exercise be sustainable
Prescribing Exercise: How to effectively counsel your patient
Part 3 (Multidisciplinary seminar)
Exercise: psychological well-being and facilitation through public policy
Exercise treatment in Mental Health
Objectives:
Enhanced knowledge of the physiological changes that occur during acute exercise, as well as, chronic changes to physiology and homeostasis.
Improved skills in linking basic science physiological data to gross changes that occur in the organism as a result of acute and chronic exercise.
Awareness of the importance of exercise in preventing pathological physiological process and awareness of any physiological contraindications to intensive exercise.
Enhanced knowledge of the effects of exercise on the “macro’ level pathophysiology linked to specific medical illnesses, especially Metabolic Dysregulation, CVD and Fibromyalgia (common comorbidities with mood disorders).
Improved skills in understanding medical indications, contraindications and “dosing” of exercise, especially when prescribed as a treatment.
Attitudinal shifts towards viewing exercise not only as a vague generalized recommendation, rather as an essential, specifically-dosed part of a comprehensive treatment regimen.
Enhanced knowledge of the presumed effects of physical exercise on the neurobiology of mood disorders.
Awareness of existent evidence and future research utilizing physical exercise in treatment of mood disorders.
Skills in developing a novel approach to the treatment of mood disorders, with exercise as a key component.
Enhanced knowledge of the effects of individual and group exercise in improving psychological well-being.
Increased skills in deciding when and how to recommend exercise in a way that maximizes adherence and effectiveness.
Awareness of the public health concept of the urban/built environment and how this can facilitate or discourage exercise.
Enhanced knowledge of the effect of exercise on various mental health issues beyond mood disorders
Increased skills in initiating and facilitating exercise for mentally ill patients
Attitudinal shifts towards a holistic approach to mental health treatment that extends conventionally used treatment approaches.
Substance abuse (9.10.2013)
Part 1
Terminology: use, abuse, dependence, addiction
Biological basis of substance abuse
Assessment of an addict
Part 2 (Student-led activity)
Anabolic steroids abuse
Smoking cessation
Cannabis: judicious use/abuse
Part 3 (Multidisciplinary seminar)
Management 1: from treatment oriented to recovery oriented
Management 2: Multidisciplinary approach
Substance abuse in Kuwait
Objectives:
Identify the biological aspect of addiction
To define addiction
To recognize the behavioral and the psychological features of patients suffering of addiction
To identify the physiological and the psychological effect of the major substances of abuse
To be able to draw a basic management plan for a patient suffering of addiction
Child and adolescent psychiatry (23.10.2013)
Part 1
Epidemiology
Separation anxiety
Autism
Part 2 (Student-led activity)
Media and youth violence
Suicide in children and adolescents
Bullying
Part 3 (Multidisciplinary seminar)
Upbringing: parenting problems
Management
1. Prevention of childhood disorders
Management
2. Treatment of childhood disorders
Objectives:
Familiar with the field of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, definition, target population and general approach
Familiar with the epidemiology of major psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents
Exposed to case based teaching and real encounters of the field in Kuwait
Familiar with the management approach of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents
Familiar with public health issues related to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry like, promoting good parenting and mental health in children, bullying, media and violence, and suicide in adolescents.
Sleep disorders (30.10.2013)
Part 1
Physiology of sleep
Assessment of insomnia
Parasomnias
Part 2 (Student-led activity)
Dreams:
Mechanism
Interpretation
Diagnostic significance
Part 3 (Multidisciplinary seminar)
Sleep hygiene
Psychopharamotherapy in insomnia
Management of insomnia
Objectives:
Assessment of insomnia: How to proceed and deal with a patient complaining of difficulty falling asleep?
Parasomnias: To know all the behavioral events that occur during sleep and how to deal with them.
People with Disabilities