VSLP7X1a Medical Psychology - practice

Faculty of Medicine
Autumn 2017
Extent and Intensity
0/3/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Terézia Knejzlíková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Hana Neudertová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Ivana Rosi (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Jana Severová, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. MUDr. Tomáš Kašpárek, Ph.D.
Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Vlasta Břicháčková
Supplier department: Faculty of Medicine
Timetable of Seminar Groups
VSLP7X1a/01: Mon 13. 11. to Fri 17. 11. each working day 7:30–12:20 F01B1/509
VSLP7X1a/02: Mon 30. 10. to Fri 3. 11. each working day 7:30–12:20 F01B1/509
VSLP7X1a/04: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 6. 10. each working day 7:30–12:20 F01B1/509
VSLP7X1a/05: Mon 18. 9. to Fri 22. 9. each working day 7:30–12:20 F01B1/509
VSLP7X1a/06: Mon 1. 1. to Fri 5. 1. each working day 7:30–12:20 F01B1/509
VSLP7X1a/07: Mon 11. 12. to Fri 15. 12. each working day 7:30–12:20 F01B1/509
VSLP7X1a/08: Mon 27. 11. to Fri 1. 12. each working day 7:30–12:20 F01B1/509
VSLP7X1a/34: No timetable has been entered into IS.
Prerequisites
VSPF0622c Pathophys. II - pract. train. && VSNV041p Neuroscience - lecture && VLCP0622c Introduc. to surgery II -pr. && VSIP0622c Introduction to internal II-pr
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:
- 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
  • TRESS, Wolfgang, Johannes KRUSSE and Jürgen OTT. Základní psychosomatická péče. Translated by Lubor Špís. Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2008, 394 stran. ISBN 9788073673093. info
    recommended literature
  • VYMĚTAL, Jan. Lékařská psychologie. 3. aktualiz. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2003, 397 s. ISBN 80-7178-740-X. info
  • HONZÁK, Radkin. Komunikační pasti v medicíně : praktický manuál komunikace lékaře s pacientem. 2. dopl. vyd. Praha: Galén, 1999, 165 s. ISBN 8072620320. info
Teaching methods
Interactive exercise and supervision.
Assessment methods
Full attendance is required for credit.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2005, Spring 2006, Autumn 2006, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, autumn 2018.
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