Course: Medical Psychology

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Course title Medical Psychology
Course code KF/ZPF5
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Dlabal Martin, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Fleischmann Otakar, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Lecture topics: 1. Psychologic issues of a disease. 2. Psychosomatic and somatopsychic relations, autoplastic picture of a disease. 3. Experiencing the disease in time, the ration of a patient to the disease. 4. Patients' categories from a psychological perspective. 5. Psychologic issues of hospitalization, iatropatogenie, sororigenie and egrotogenie. 6. Professional deformation, the risk of burn-out syndrome. 7. Stress, the psychology of pain. 8. Types of disabilities and psychological approach to clients. 9. Anxiety, fear. 10. Professional behaviour. Seminar Topics: 1. Productive and non-productive behaviour, a health care provider as a client. 2. Psychotherapy in healthcare work. 3. Disease as a stressful situation. 4. Communication with a sick patient. 5. Communication within a social network of a patient. 6. Maladaptive temperament manifestations, unproductive behaviour. 7. Productive behaviour and its manifestations. 8. Particularities of approach to the clients at individual wards: internal, surgical. 9. Particularities of approach to the clients at individual wards: gynaecological and neurological. 10. Brining bad news.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course as a part of the subject of Psychology introduces the issues of medical psychology. The subject deepens the knowledge that is important for professional mastering of challenging situations in care of individual needs of the ill, the impaired or dying patients, as well as for maintaining the mental balance of the care and assistance provider.
Subject Knowledge: After completing the course students have the knowledge important for professional mastering of difficult situations in care of individual needs of the ill, the impaired or dying patients, as well as for maintaining the mental balance of the care and assistance provider. Subject Skills: Student is able to adequately saturate the client's needs and solve problems associated with the disease. He is able to access clients within the differences between individual diseases.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Student will receive the credit for minimum 80% active participation in seminars and for demonstrating the knowledge of the issues. The exam will be oral.
Recommended literature
  • BERAN. J. Lékařská psychologie v praxi. 1. vydání. Praha: Grada. 144. S. 2009. ISBN: 978-80-247-1125-6.
  • BLATNÝ. M. a kol. Psychologie osobnosti. 1. vydání. Praha: Grada. 304 s. 2010. ISBN: 978-80-247-3434-7.
  • FELEILE. A. O., LIAN. L. B., FALEIDE. E. K. Vliv psychiky na zdraví. 1. vydání. 240 s. 2010. ISBN: 978-80-247-2864-3..
  • JOBÁNKOVÁ M. Kapitoly z psychologie pro zdravotnické pracovníky.Brno - IDVPZ, 2000,1.vydání, 202s. ISBN 80-7013-288-4. ISBN 80-7013-288-4.
  • JOBÁNKOVÁ, M. Vybrané problémy psychologie zdravotnické činnosti. Brno: IDV PZ, 1992..
  • KŘIVOHLAVÝ, J. Bolest a její diagnostika. Brno: IDV PZ, 1992. ISBN 80-7013-130-6.. Brno, 1992.
  • ZACHAROVÁ, E.; ŠRÁMKOVÁ, J.; HERMANOVÁ, M. Zdravotnická psychologie: teorie a praxe. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2007. 229s. ISBN 978-80-247-2068-5..


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