Minor Course 1: Crisis & Forensic Psychiatry
Learning objectives:
- Describe and explain complex psychiatric problems in crisis and forensic psychiatry
- Describe and interpret (neurodevelopmental) risk factors for psychiatric problems in crisis
and forensic psychiatry
- Summarize, critically analyse, and reflect on research papers in the field of crisis and forensic
psychiatry
Week 1: Psychosomatic problems
- Unexplained somatic complaints, delirium, gender disorders, syndromic disorders, oncology,
mental competence, deep brain stimulation in anorexia nervosa
Week 2: Suicidal and self-harming behaviour; Trauma
- Auto-mutilation and suicidal behaviour, suicide prevention, assessment of suicide attempts
- Children of murder victims, trauma and maltreatment related psychopathology, sexual
abuse, maltreatment, antisocial teenage mothers
Week 3-4: Forensic psychiatry
- Clinical forensic psychiatry, systemic therapy, disruptive behaviour in girls, neurobiology of
antisocial behaviour (neuroendocrinology, imaging, genetics)
Working lectures: Patient demonstration or case reports (preparing helps); research
Working groups: critical thinking
W1: comparing 2 papers
W2: the case of SSRIs and suicidality in children
W3: discussion of mid-term exam assignments
W4: practice for the final exam
Excursions:
W1: consultative psychiatry
W2: acute psychiatry wards, mobile crisis team
W3: forensic day treatment, closed youth care, juvenile justice institution
Mid-term exam in W2: written assignment regarding critical thinking – summarise, critically analyse
and reflect on research papers in the field of C&F psychiatry (40%)
Final exam:
- Will be primarily based on knowledge from lectures and your thinking process; open-ended
questions (60%)
- Describe and explain complex psychiatric problems in crisis and forensic psychiatry
- Describe and interpret (neurodevelopmental) risk factors for psychiatric problems in crisis
and forensic psychiatry
Contact: Dr. Lucres Nauta-Jansen
Learning objectives:
- Describe and explain complex psychiatric problems in crisis and forensic psychiatry
- Describe and interpret (neurodevelopmental) risk factors for psychiatric problems in crisis
and forensic psychiatry
- Summarize, critically analyse, and reflect on research papers in the field of crisis and forensic
psychiatry
Week 1: Psychosomatic problems
- Unexplained somatic complaints, delirium, gender disorders, syndromic disorders, oncology,
mental competence, deep brain stimulation in anorexia nervosa
Week 2: Suicidal and self-harming behaviour; Trauma
- Auto-mutilation and suicidal behaviour, suicide prevention, assessment of suicide attempts
- Children of murder victims, trauma and maltreatment related psychopathology, sexual
abuse, maltreatment, antisocial teenage mothers
Week 3-4: Forensic psychiatry
- Clinical forensic psychiatry, systemic therapy, disruptive behaviour in girls, neurobiology of
antisocial behaviour (neuroendocrinology, imaging, genetics)
Working lectures: Patient demonstration or case reports (preparing helps); research
Working groups: critical thinking
W1: comparing 2 papers
W2: the case of SSRIs and suicidality in children
W3: discussion of mid-term exam assignments
W4: practice for the final exam
Excursions:
W1: consultative psychiatry
W2: acute psychiatry wards, mobile crisis team
W3: forensic day treatment, closed youth care, juvenile justice institution
Mid-term exam in W2: written assignment regarding critical thinking – summarise, critically analyse
and reflect on research papers in the field of C&F psychiatry (40%)
Final exam:
- Will be primarily based on knowledge from lectures and your thinking process; open-ended
questions (60%)
- Describe and explain complex psychiatric problems in crisis and forensic psychiatry
- Describe and interpret (neurodevelopmental) risk factors for psychiatric problems in crisis
and forensic psychiatry
Contact: Dr. Lucres Nauta-Jansen
