LF:BDAP021 Medical Psych. and Psychoth.

BDAP021 Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Faculty of Medicine
Spring 2000

Extent and Intensity

0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: MUDr. Olga Kulísková, Ph.D.

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

Key topics

Definition of psychotherapy.
Psychotherapeutical approach, systematic psychotherapy.
Individual, group and family psychotherapy.
Behavioral, psychodynamic psychotherapy, its bases.
Intervention during psychic crisis.
Methods of relaxation.
Problems of work with pain, depression, anxiety, defensive mechanisms.
Providing information, providing adverse prognosis.
Problems of dying, death from the aspect of patient, therapist and medical team.
Psychological questions of relation between therapist and patients’ relatives, survivors.
Psychological problems in individual branches: oncology, geriatry, home care, pediatrics, psychiatry, gynaecology, surgical branches and others.

Study resources and literature

KRATOCHVÍL, Stanislav. Jak žít s neurózou. Praha: Avicenum, 1981. info
KRATOCHVÍL, Stanislav. Základy psychoterapie :[směry, metody, výzkum]. Vyd. 2., dopl. a přeprac. Praha: Portál, 1998, 392 s. ISBN 80-7178-179-7. info
SKÁLA, Jaroslav. Psychoterapie v medicínské praxi. 1. vyd. Praha: Avicenum, 1989, 150 s. info
VYMĚTAL, Jan. Úvod do psychoterapie. 1. vyd. Praha: Psychoanalytické nakladatelství, 1992, 170 s. info

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught in blocks.

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005.