Study:	Social Work - 7. semester
Code:	44130
ECTS:	3.0
Course coordinators:	izv. prof. dr. sc. Marina Milić Babić izv. prof. Tihana Jendričko doc. dr. sc. Draženka Ostojić
Exam dates:	07. 06. 2023. 28. 06. 2023. 12. 07. 2023. 30. 08. 2023. 13. 09. 2023. Exam registration: Studomat

Literature:

Begić D.; Psihopatologija, drugo, dopunjeno i obnovljeno izdanje; Medicinska naklada (2014), str Begić D, Jukić V, Medved V.; Psihijatrija; Medicinska naklada (2016), str Mužinić Marinić, L.; Psihijatrija u zajednici; Pravni fakultet, Biblioteka socijalnog rada (2020), str Stjepanović M, Jendričko T, Ostojić D.; Uloga socijalnog radnika u socioterapijskim i psihosocijalnim postupcima kod osoba s rizikom razvoja depresije uzrokovane stresnim životnim događajima.; Soc. Psihijatrija (2015), str. 43:26-33 Štrkalj- Ivezić S, Jendričko T, Pisk Z, Martić-Biočina S.; Terapijska zajednica; Socijalna psihijatrija (2014), str. 42:172-9 Ostojić D.; Prva epizoda shizofrenije - važnost ranog otkrivanja bolesti: što o tome trebaju znati socijalni radnici; Ljetopis socijalnog rada (2012), str. 19:53-71

Description:

Definition and concept of social psychiatry. Position and significance of social worker in social psychiatry. Epidemoilogy of psychical disorders. Etiology of psychical disorders. Methods of procedure in social psychiatry. Diagnosing and classification of psychical disorders. Prevention of mental disorders. General psychopathology. Alcoholism. Dependence on psychoactive substances. Schizophrenia and schizophrenic like mental disorders. Personality and behavioural disorders of adults. Mental retardation. Psychiatric services organization. Treatment of mental patients. Psychiatry and law (forensic psychiatry). Role of social services in mental patients? protection.

Cognitive Skills:

Knowledge and understanding

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- define principles of social psychiatry in the context of modern approaches to social psychiatry;

- evaluate and recognise social and psychiatric context in persons with mental disorders;

- explain theoretical and practical approaches to persons with mental disorders from the standpoint of social psychiatry;

- recognise diagnostic categories of mental disorders, needed therapeutical and rehabilitory treatments, and ethical principles and legal regulation connected with persons with mental disorders;

- indicate all important areas of social workers' activity in the area of social psychiatry;

- explain research methods and ethical principles that are the foundation for original thinking and scientific research in social psychiatry.

 

Application

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- indicate and describe principles of social psychiatry;

- understand the influence of social context on prevention, appearance, treatment and rehabilitation of individual mental disorders;

- organise multidisciplinary approach to a person with mental disorders;

- plan the usage of individual preventive, diagnostic, therapeutical and rehabilitory psychosocial interventions;

- apply acquired knowledge in the area of activity of social workers.

 

Analysis

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- catewgorise symptoms of mental disorders in diagnostic categories and according to their capacity for personal, family, work and general social functioning;

- demonstrate the position of persons with mental disorders with regard to personal and social context;

- analyse the selection of needed interventions and cooperation with multidisciplinary diagnostic-therapeutical team;

- compare and test efficiency of psychosocial interventions.

 

Synthesis

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- interpret symprtoms of mental disorders in accordance with individual diagnostic categories;

- connect mental disorders with the social context and individual characteristics of persons with disorders;

- formulate the plan of the most effiicient psychosocial interventions;

- form a multidisciplinary approach to persons with mental disorders in accordance with individual needs and capacities of their personality;

- propose improvement of preventive, therapeutic and rehabilitory psychosocial programs.

 

Evaluation

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- assess principles of activity of social workers in the context of social psychiatry;

- evaluate multidisciplinary approach to prevention, treatment and rehabilitatioon of persons with mental disorders;

- compare nefficiency of individual psychosocial interventions in accordance with diagnostic, personal and social context of persons with mental disorders;

- examine implementation and improvement of psychosocial interventions;

- indicate areas of scientific-research interest.

Practical and Generic Skills:

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- communicate with persons with mental disorders with the aim of diagnostic evaluation and conduct of psychosocial interventions

- communicate with diagnostic-therapeutical multidisciplinary team

- clearly present acquired learning outcomes

- express themselves in a clear, well structures text explaining their standpoints.

Matching Assessments to Learning Outcomes:

Assessment of acquired outcomes is conducted on several levelsand several modalities:

- mid-term examinations and written examination (open-ended questions)

- oral examination

- workshops in small groups

Consultations schedule: