LF:VSLP7X1a Medical Psychology - practice - Course Information

VSLP7X1a Medical Psychology - practice

Extent and Intensity

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

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Hana Jahnová (seminar tutor)
MUDr. Šárka Kárová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. MUDr. Tomáš Kašpárek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Irena Komárková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Hana Neudertová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Ivana Rosi (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Jana Severová, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Lucie Strachotová (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Vlasta Břicháčková (assistant)

Guaranteed by

prof. MUDr. Tomáš Kašpárek, Ph.D.
Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: prof. MUDr. Tomáš Kašpárek, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Faculty of Medicine

Timetable of Seminar Groups

VSLP7X1a/09: Mon 20. 3. to Fri 24. 3. each working day 7:30–12:20 F01B1/509
VSLP7X1a/10: Mon 6. 3. to Fri 10. 3. each working day 7:30–12:20 F01B1/509
VSLP7X1a/11: Mon 20. 2. to Fri 24. 2. each working day 7:30–12:20 F01B1/509
VSLP7X1a/12: Mon 29. 5. to Fri 2. 6. each working day 7:30–12:20 F01B1/509
VSLP7X1a/15: Mon 17. 4. to Fri 21. 4. each working day 7:30–12:20 F01B1/509
VSLP7X1a/16: Mon 3. 4. to Fri 7. 4. each working day 7:30–12:20 F01B1/509
VSLP7X1a/30: No timetable has been entered into IS.
VSLP7X1a/31: No timetable has been entered into IS.
VSLP7X1a/32: No timetable has been entered into IS.
VSLP7X1a/33: No timetable has been entered into IS.
VSLP7X1a/34: No timetable has been entered into IS.

Prerequisites

VSNV041p Neuroscience - lecture && VSPF0622c Pathophys. II - pract. train. && ( VLCP0622c Introduc. to surgery II -pr. || STCP0622c Clin.exam. in surgery II ) && VSIP0622c Introduction to internal II-pr && VLFA0621c Pharmacology I - p
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

• General Medicine (eng.) (programme LF, M-VL)
• General Medicine (programme LF, M-VL)

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.

• Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2017, recent)
  
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