LF:aZLZP051c Psychology in Dent.-pract. - Course Information
aZLZP051c Medical Psychology and Psychosomatic in Dentistry - practice
Faculty of MedicineAutumn 2017
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0.5/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- MUDr. Šárka Kárová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. MUDr. Tomáš Kašpárek, 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
- Mon 20. 11. to Fri 24. 11. each working day 7:30–10:00 F01B1/521
- Prerequisites
- aZLNV041c Neuroscience - practice && aZC041 Handling chemical substances
Lectures are only in English 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
- Dentistry (eng.) (programme LF, M-ZL)
- Dentistry (programme LF, M-ZL)
- 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
- AYERS, Susan and Richard DE VISSER. Psychology for medicine. First published 2011. Los Angeles: Sage, 2011, xiv, 530. ISBN 9781412946902. info
- Teaching methods
- Interactive excercice and supervision.
- Assessment methods
- Full attendance is required for credit.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester. - Teacher's information
- https://is.muni.cz/predmet/med/aZLZP051c?lang=cs&obdobi=6903
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2017, recent)
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