TEACHING UNIT 1. MENTAL HEALTH AND NORMAL PERSONALITY

1. Concept of mental health
2. Theories of mental health
3. Levels of intervention in mental health
4. - Health promotion
5. - Disease prevention
6. Resources in mental health
7. - Material resources
8. - Care resources
9. - Human resources

TEACHING UNIT 2. MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT

1. Mental disorder
2. - Concept
3. Medical history
4. The interview
5. Mental state assessment
6. Cognitive assessment scales
7. - Assessment process
8. - Instruments or scales for mental assessment

TEACHING UNIT 3. HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY

1. History of psychiatry
2. Psychiatry throughout history
3. - Ancient societies
4. - Greco-Roman psychiatry
5. - Medieval period
6. - Renaissance, Baroque and Romanticism
7. Specialty of psychiatry in Spain
8. - The psychiatrist
9. Concept of mental health
10. Mental health today

TEACHING UNIT 4. CAUSAL FACTORS OF MENTAL ILLNESS

1. Introduction to Influencing Factors in Mental Health
2. Predisposing Factors
3. - Organic Biological Factors
4. - Neuroendocrinological factors
5. - Genetic factors
6. - Environmental factors
7. Precipitating factors
8. Maintenance factors

UNIT DIDACTIC 5. PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL ALTERATIONS

1. Sensory-perceptual alterations
2. Thought alterations
3. - Course of thought
4. - Content of thought
5. Language disturbances
6. - Primary language disorders
7. - Secondary language disorders
8. Consciousness disturbances
9. Attention and orientation disturbances
10. Memory disturbances
11. Affective disturbances
12. Psychopathology of psychomotor
13. Eating disorders
14. - Anorexia
15. - Bulimia
16. Sleep disturbances
17. Intelligence disturbances

UNIT DIDACTIC 6. PERSONALITY DISORDERS

1. Introduction to personality disorders
2. Classification of personality disorders
3. - Paranoid personality disorder
4. - Schizoid personality disorder
5. - Schizotypal personality disorder
6. - Antisocial personality disorder
7. - Borderline personality disorder
8. - Histrionic personality disorder
9. - Narcissistic personality disorder
10. - Avoidant personality disorder
11. - Dependent personality disorder
12. - Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
13. Guidelines for the psychiatric assistant's actions with persons with personality disorders
14. - Paranoid personality disorder
15. - Schizoid personality disorder
16. - Schizotypal personality disorder
17. - Antisocial personality disorder
18. - Borderline personality disorder
19. - Histrionic personality disorder
20. - Narcissistic personality disorder
21. - Avoidant personality disorder
22. - Dependent personality disorder
23. - Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

UNIT 7. ANXIETY DISORDERS

1. Anxiety
2. - The anxiety state
3. Social anxiety disorder (social phobia)
4. - Diagnostic criteria
5. Post-traumatic stress disorder
6. - Diagnostic criteria
7. - Diagnostic criteria for PTSD in children under 6 years of age
8. Generalized anxiety disorder
9. - Diagnostic criteria
10. Panic disorder
11. - Diagnostic criteria
12. Anxiety crisis emergency

UNIT DIDACTIC 8. OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER AND RELATED DISORDERS

1. Introduction to obsessive-compulsive disorders
2. Obsessive-compulsive disorder
3. Body dysmorphic disorder
4. Hoarding disorder
5. Trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder)
6. Excoriation (skin scratching) disorder
7. Obsessive-compulsive disorder and related substance/medication-induced disorders
8. Obsessive-compulsive disorder and related disorders due to another medical condition
9. Other obsessive-compulsive disorder and related disorders specified
10. Obsessive-compulsive disorder and related disorders not specified

UNIT DIDACTIC 9. MOOD STATUS DISORDERS

1. Introduction to emotional or mood disorders
2. Destructive mood dysregulation disorder
3. Major depressive disorder
4. Persistent depressive disorder or dysthymia
5. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
6. Other depressive disorders
7. - Substance-induced depressive disorder
8. - Depressive disorder due to a medical condition
9. - Specified depressive disorder
10. - Unspecified depressive disorder

TEACHING UNIT 10. SOMATIC SYMPTOM DISORDERS AND RELATED DISORDERS.

1. Somatic symptom disorders and related disorders
2. Somatic symptom disorder
3. Sickness anxiety disorder
4. Conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder)
5. Psychological factors influencing other medical conditions
6. Factitious disorder
7. Other related disorders
8. - Other specified somatic symptom disorder and related disorders
9. - Unspecified somatic symptom disorder and related disorders

TEACHING UNIT 11. DISOCIATIVE DISORDERS

1. Introduction to dissociative disorders
2. Dissociative identity disorder
3. Dissociative amnesia
4. Depersonalization-Derealization disorder
5. Other specified and unspecified dissociative disorder
6. Psychiatric assistant action guidelines for patients with dissociative and factitious disorders

TEACHING UNIT 12. SCHIZOPHRENIA AND OTHER PSYCHOTHOTIC DISORDERS

1. Spectrum of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
2. Schizotypal (personality) disorder
3. Delusional disorder
4. Brief psychotic disorder
5. Schizophreniform disorder
6. Schizophrenia
7. Schizoaffective disorder
8. Substance-induced psychotic disorder
9. Psychotic disorder due to other medical condition
10. Catatonia
11. - Catatonia associated with another mental disorder (catatonia specifier)
12. - Catatonic disorder due to another medical condition
13. - Catatonia not specified
14. Other schizophrenia spectrum disorder
15. - Other specified schizophrenia spectrum disorder and other psychotic disorder
16. - Unspecified schizophrenia spectrum disorder and other psychotic disorder

TEACHING UNIT 13. SEXUAL DISORDERS AND GENDER DYSPHORIA AND PARAPHILIA

1. Introduction to sexual dysfunctions
2. - Delayed ejaculation
3. - Erectile disorder
4. - Female orgasmic disorder
5. - Female interest/sexual arousal disorder
6. - Genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder
7. - Hypoactive sexual desire disorder in male
8. - Premature (premature) ejaculation
9. - Substance/drug-induced sexual dysfunction
10. - Other specified sexual dysfunction
11. - Unspecified sexual dysfunction
12. Gender dysphoria
13. - Gender dysphoria in children
14. - Gender dysphoria in adolescents and adults
15. - Other specified gender dysphoria
16. - Unspecified gender dysphoria
17. - Paraphilic disorders
18. - Voyeurism disorder
19. - Exhibitionism disorder
20. - Frotteurism disorder
21. - Sexual masochism disorder
22. - Sexual sadism disorder
23. - Pedophilia disorder
24. - Fetishism disorder
25. - Transvestism disorder
26. - Other paraphilic disorders

UNIT DIDACTIC 14 .SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS

1. Substance-related disorders
2. Alcohol-related disorders
3. Caffeine-related disorders
4. Cannabis-related disorder
5. Hallucinogen-related disorders
6. Inhalant-related disorders
7. Opioid-related disorders
8. Sedative, hypnotic, or anxiolytic disorders
9. Stimulant-related disorders
10. Tobacco-related disorders
11. Disorders related to other substances (or unknown substances)
12. Disorders induced by other substances (or unknown substances)
13. Non-substance-related disorders

UNIT DIDACTIC 15. CHILDHOOD, ADOLESCENCE AND AGEING ONSET DISORDERS.

1. Neurodevelopmental disorders
2. - Intellectual disabilities
3. - Global developmental delay
4. - Intellectual disability (intellectual developmental disorder) not specified
5. - Nursing treatment and care
6. Childhood or adolescent onset disorders
7. - Learning and communication disorders
8. - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
9. - Motor behavior disorders
10. - Elimination disorders
11. - Destructive, impulse control and conduct disorders
12. - Autism
13. Disorders of aging
14. - Dementias

UNIT DIDACTIC 16. TREATMENTS IN MENTAL HEALTH

1. Biological treatments
2. - Psychopharmaceuticals
3. - Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
4. - Physiological deactivation techniques
5. Psychological treatments
6. - Psychodynamic therapies
7. - Behavioral therapies
8. - Cognitive therapies
9. - Social skills training techniques
10. - Humanistic therapies
11. - Group therapy
12. - Family therapy

UNIT DIDACTIC 17. PSYCHOPHARMACOTICS

1. Introduction to psychotropic drugs
2. Classification of psychotropic drugs
3. Anxiolytics and hypnotics
4. Antidepressants
5. Psychostimulants
6. Antipsychotics
7. Antidementia drugs
8. Euthymics

UNIT DIDACTIC 18. PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES

1. Concept of psychiatric emergencies
2. Elements and types of intervention in psychiatric emergencies
3. Priority psychiatric emergencies
4. - Psychomotor agitation
5. - Delusional pictures
6. - Depressive pictures (Suicidal ideations)
7. - Confusional episodes
8. - Emergencies in psychotic outbreaks

UNIT DIDACTIC 19. ACTING WITH THE MENTALLY ILL

1. The Mentally Ill
2. - Henderson's Fourteen Fundamental Human Needs
3. - Maslow's Pyramid of Needs
4. - Kalish's Hierarchy of Needs
5. - Functions of the assistant for the fulfillment of the patient's needs
6. - Relations with the patient and his relatives
7. - The patient's problem
8. - According to the patient's age
9. The performance according to the pathology of the mentally ill person
10. - Performance in patients with anxiety disorders
11. - Performance in patients with personality disorders
12. - Performance in patients with schizophrenia disorders
13. - Performance in patients with paranoid disorders
14. - Performance in patients with mood disorders
15. - Performance in patients with organic mental disorders
16. - Performance in patients with psychoactive substance abuse disorders

TEACHING UNIT 20. ACTION ON HYGIENE AND NUTRITION OF THE MENTALLY ILL

1. Control and supervision of the physical space
2. - How the room of the mentally ill person should be
3. - Control in the bed of the patient
4. Care and maintenance of material resources.
5. Hygiene and grooming of the mentally ill
6. - General hygiene
7. - Skin hygiene
8. Preparation and administration of meals
9. - Oral feeding
10. - Types of therapeutic diets
11. - Parenteral nutrition
12. - Enteral nutrition

UNIT DIDACTIC 21. ACTION IN MEDICAL EXAMINATION

1. Introduction
2. Manual examination
3. Instrumental examination
4. - Specific techniques of instrumental examination
5. Preparation and positions of the patient
6. - How to prepare the patient for the examination
7. - The most used positions during the examination

UNIT DIDACTIC 22. ACTION TO BE TAKEN IN THE COLLECTION OF SAMPLES, MEDICATIONS, PROBES AND ENEMAS

1. Eliminations of the sick person and sample collection
2. - Urine
3. - Fecal samples
4. - Vomitus or emesis
5. - Sputum
6. - Blood collection
7. - Exudates
8. - Samples from the respiratory system
9. - Administration of drugs
10. - Classification of drugs according to their effect on the organism
11. - Administration of drugs by different routes
12. Placement of catheters and enemas
13. - Bladder catheterization

UNIT DIDACTIC 23. ACTION IN THE CONTINUOUS OBSERVATION OF THE MENTALLY ILL

1. General observation of the mentally ill
2. Physical observation of the skin
3. - The functions of the skin
4. - Factors to observe with respect to the skin
5. Observation of temperature
6. - Factors that modify temperature
7. - Alterations due to illness
8. - Breathing-eupnea
9. Observation of blood pressure
10. - How to measure blood pressure
11. The observation of arterial pulse
12. - The characteristics of arterial pulse
13. - How to measure arterial pulse

UNIT DIDACTIC 24. MOBILIZATION AND TRANSPORTATION OF THE MENTALLY ILL

1. Basic principles of mobilization
2. Mobilization of the ill
3. - Methods for mobilization
4. Wheelchair transport
5. - How to transfer the patient from the bed to the wheelchair
6. - How to transfer a patient from wheelchair to bed
7. - How to transport a patient in a wheelchair
8. Stretcher transport
9. - How to transfer the patient from bed to stretcher
10. How to prepare the patient for a good night

TEACHING UNIT 25. ACTION IN REHABILITATION UNITS

1. Rehabilitation treatments
2. - Social Rehabilitation
3. - Labor Rehabilitation
4. Motivation in the mentally ill and their families
5. - The teaching function and prevention
6. - The collaboration of the family members