LF:BSAP0422c Applied Psychology -p - Course Information

BSAP0422c Psychotherapy and Applied Psychology - practice

Extent and Intensity

0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Jana Severová, CSc. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D.
Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Vlasta Břicháčková
Supplier department: Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine

Timetable

Wed 14:00–15:40 F01B1/509

Prerequisites

BZPS0121p Psychology -lec. || BSPS0121p Psychology -lec.
Výuka je v českém jazyce.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• General Nurse (programme LF, B-OS)

Course objectives

- Help students identify their own sources of motivation for the profession of health care professional
- Through self-experience exercises, help students distinguish different levels of helping professions (a healthcare worker, such as a social role, a person, a patient)
- Help students identify their own sources of self-support
- Help students to learn the basic methods of stress management
- Link the theoretical background of medical psychology to general human existential themes through experiential exercises (responsibility, will to sense, meaning of life, hope, humility, gratitude)
- Rehearse essential counselling and psychotherapy skills in various medical contexts and situations under the direct supervision of clinical psychologist and psychotherapist
- To acquaint students with basic psychotherapeutic techniques in individual and group psychotherapy (demonstration, short self-experience)
- Practice of basic relaxation techniques

Learning outcomes

- Student understands which motives may be in the background of a medical profession
- Understands the concept of self-support and is able to identify own sources of self-support
- Student will learn effective stress management techniques
- Student will meet general human existential themes through experiential exercises (rear of death and dying, responsibility, will to sense, meaning of life, hope, humility, gratitude)
- Students will acquire the basic communication skills when communicating bad news to patients
- Student will learn basic communication skills in communication with children at different stages of development
- Student will learn basic communication skills in communication with patients with chronic diseases
- Student will learn basic communication skills in communicating with patients who experience strong emotions
- Student will learn to identify transference and countertransference phenomena
- Students will learn the principles of collecting anamnesis in psychosomatic patients
- Student will learn the principles of conducting the clinical interview

Syllabus

• - Motivation of the medical profession
• - External and internal self-support system
• - Autogenic training
• - Mindfulness-based stress reduction
• - The general human existential themes
• - Basic communication skills in communication with children
• - Basic communication skills in communication with chronic disease patient
• - Basic communication skills in communication with children who experience strong emotions
• - Basic communication skills when communicating bad news to patients
• - Principles of collecting anamnesis in psychosomatic patients
• - Principles of conducting the clinical interview
• - Transference and countertransference phenomena
• - Ego defense mechanisms
• - Supervision in medicine
• - Team supervision

Literature

required literature
• AYERS, Susan and Richard DE VISSER. Psychologie v medicíně. Translated by Helena Hartlová. Vydání 1. Praha: Grada, 2015, xiv, 552. ISBN 9788024752303. URL info
• PROCHASKA, James O. and John C. NORCROSS. Psychoterapeutické systémy : průřez teoriemi. Praha: Grada, 1999, 479 s. ISBN 8071697664. info

Teaching methods

Interactive exercise and supervision.

Assessment methods

Full attendance is required for credit. Credit has a oral form.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: celkem 15 hod.

• Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2018, recent)
  
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