aVLPS051c Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics - practice

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/3/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Bc. Zdeňka Barešová (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Pavel Humpolíček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Tatiana Malatincová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Alena Slezáčková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Pavel Strašák (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
MUDr. Rastislav Šumec, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
MUDr. Monika Lekárová (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D.
Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Blanka Suchá
Supplier department: Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites
aVLFY0422p Physiology II - lecture
Excercice is 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
Course objectives
The objectives of the subject are to enable students to:
- Help students identify their own sources of motivation for the profession of healthcare 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, the meaning of life, hope, humility, gratitude)
- Rehearse essential counseling 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. 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.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 45.
Teacher's information
https://is.muni.cz/predmet/med/aVLLP7X1?lang=cs&obdobi=6903
The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2022, autumn 2023, spring 2024, autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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