LF:BPSP021 Health and Social Psych - pr. - Course Information

BPSP021 Health and Social Psychology - practice

Extent and Intensity

0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

prof. MUDr. Tomáš Kašpárek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Hana Jahnová (seminar tutor)
Vlasta Břicháčková (assistant)

Guaranteed by

prof. MUDr. Tomáš Kašpárek, Ph.D.
Department of Medical Psychology and Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Supplier department: Department of Medical Psychology and Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine

Timetable

Thu 30. 3. to Thu 27. 4. Thu 10:40–12:20 GPK N03031

Prerequisites

Lectures are only in the Czech language.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Midwife (programme LF, B-PA) (2)

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

• Delinating basic notions of healtcare and social psychology;
• Health and ilness;
• Psychological problems of a client. Relation between a client and a mydwife;
• Basic psychological care for outclients and for clients in hospital;
• Psychosomatic approach and bio-psyho-eco-social approach;
• Pain, anxiety, and fear;
• Grieving and depression;
• Mental crisis, critical intervention, burn-out syndrom;
• Specifics of the psychological approach across the branches of medicine - gynaecology and obsterics, neonatology; Social psychology, social learning, social perception, social interaction and social isolation. Social communication. Communication in difficult situations - prematura childbirth, giving birth to a dead child, death of a child. Social groups - group dynmaics, co-operation in a group. Family and society, functioning, disfunctioning, problem family. Mental subdeprivation and deprovation CAN syndrom. Alternative family care - diferent forms and types.

Literature

required literature
• VÁGNEROVÁ, Marie. Psychopatologie pro pomáhající profese. Vyd. 4., rozš. a přeprac. Praha: Portál, 2008, 870 s. ISBN 9788073674144. info
• ZACHAROVÁ, Eva, Miroslava HERMANOVÁ and Jaroslava ŠRÁMKOVÁ. Zdravotnická psychologie : teorie a praktická cvičení. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 2007, 229 s. ISBN 9788024720685. info
• VYMĚTAL, Jan. Lékařská psychologie. 3. aktualiz. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2003, 397 s. ISBN 80-7178-740-X. info
• NAKONEČNÝ, Milan. Sociální psychologie. Vydání 1. Praha: Academia, 1999, 287 stran. ISBN 8020006907. info

recommended literature
• VYKOPALOVÁ, Hana. Vybrané kapitoly ze sociální psychologie v kontextu komunikace. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2000, 198 s. ISBN 8024400847. info
• DUNOVSKÝ, Jiří. Sociální pediatrie : vybrané kapitoly. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 1999, 279 s. ISBN 8071692549. info

not specified
• BOUČEK, Jaroslav. Lékařská psychologie. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2006, 141 s. ISBN 8024415011. info

Teaching methods

Presentation of the personality of the student herself (basic anamnestic data, family, professional career and aims, hobbies) Active participation is expected, pairwork, teamwork.

Assessment methods

Requirements for finishing the lecture, form of the finishing colloquium. Students will be informed about the requirements for getting the credit in written form, a seminar paper on a certain topic will be set (5 given topics and 1 topic of one's own) according to the requirements given. The content of the paper may be personal reflections and experiences supported by citation and examples from literature. A clear grasp of the topic, expression of an opinion of one's own, and ability to be work with sources (literature) will be evaluated. Content and professional quality of the topic will be evaluated by the teacher who will decide whether the seminar paper fulfills the requirements and exhausts the given topic. Colloquium has a form of a written test, the result of the test is evaluated in points, within the range from 0 to 25 points, minimum number of points for passing is 20 Total evaluation of the student in the subject is combined from the evaluation of the seminar paper and the perfomance at the colloquium.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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