EMPS0711s Psychologie - seminář

Faculty of Medicine
autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Tatiana Malatincová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Alena Slezáčková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Bc. Kateřina Smolková (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Blanka Suchá (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D.
Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Supplier department: Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Timetable
Mon 6. 11. to Fri 22. 12. Wed 11:00–12:40 A19/133, Mon 18. 9. to Tue 31. 10. Wed 11:00–12:40 A19/133; and Wed 1. 11. 10:40–12:20 A19/133
Prerequisites
Lectures are only in the Czech language.
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
Course objectives
The objectives of the subject are to enable students to:
- Integrate psychology into the context of basic medical education for future health care professionals
- Introduce psychology as an essential part of competent medical practice
- Provide a theoretical context / field to integrate the information gained so far about the functioning of the body with the principles of functioning of the psyche
- Present the complex outcomes of psychological science and clinical practice at the level of principles that can be applied in the work of a professional in the health care sector, to the benefit of his / her patients, as well as of the whole health teams
- Enhance students' understanding on the basic psychological and psychotherapeutic principles, whose understanding is necessary not only for the understanding of health and illness but also for communication with patients in these states
- To acquaint students with the bio-psycho-social model of health and illness
- Helping students understand a human being as a psychophysiological unity
- To teach students to work with the basics of field theory, holistic approach and model "Connections and Health" / Autoregulation and Allostasis
- To acquaint students with basic communication algorithms that can be applied in various contexts and situations of medical practice
- Specify the possibilities of application of psychology in various fields of medicine
Learning outcomes
- Student understand why psychology is important in medicine and distinguishes different approaches to disease and health
- Student understands the relationship between emotion, motivation and health
- Student understands the interaction approach to stress and the relationship of stress, health and illness
- Student understands the risks of stress in performing the profession of healthcare professional. Student can identify symptoms of chronic stress and knows the principles of their management and prevention in the process of developing the burnout syndrome
- Student is able to explain the role of different psychological factors in physical symptoms
- Student understands the importance of health behavior and health behavior change, student knows the different models of health behavior and understand how to apply these models in clinical practice
- Student will understand how developmental changes throughout life affect communication between doctor and patient
- Student will learn the basic communication skills necessary for conducting the clinical interview
- Student will know theoretical bases of various psychological therapies used in medical context
- Student will become acquainted with the psychosomatic paradigm in medicine
- 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
- 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 interview
Syllabus
  • - Psychology and medicine, why is psychology important in medical practice
  • - Definitions of health, comparison of biomedical and biopsychosocial approaches
  • - Motivation, emotion, and health
  • - Stress and health
  • - Symptoms and illness
  • - Health and behavior
  • - Chronic illness, death, and dying
  • - Developmental psychology in the medical context
  • - Clinical interviewing
  • - Psychotherapeutic approaches, general psychotherapeutic interventions for professionals in medical practice
  • - Psychosomatic paradigm, psychophysiological integration such as “body-mind” integration
  • - Basic explanatory models of psychosomatic diseases
  • - The 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 conducting the clinical interview
  • - Transference and countertransference phenomena
  • - Ego defense mechanisms
  • - Supervision in medicine
  • - Team supervision
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
Teaching methods
Theoretical preparation, self-experience exercises, training of communication skills.
Assessment methods
Full attendance is required. Final Examination - Oral Form.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30.
Teacher's information
https://is.muni.cz/auth/predmety/sylaby_plneni?obdobi=7124;pvysl=3494732#prubul4
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