LF:MNPV081c Psychology of Nutrition - Course Information

MNPV081c Psychology of Nutrition - practice

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
MUDr. Rastislav Šumec, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Veronika Išová (assistant)
MVDr. Halina Matějová (assistant)
Ing. Kateřina Novohradská (assistant)
Blanka Suchá (assistant)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D.
Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Blanka Suchá
Supplier department: Department of Public Health – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine

Prerequisites

MPOG071 Psychology
Výuka je v českém jazyce.

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

• Nutrition therapist for child nutrition and Nutrition therapist for adult nutrition (programme LF, N-SZ)
• Dietetian (programme LF, N-VDD)

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

• - 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
• MILLER, William R. and Stephen ROLLNICK. Motivační rozhovory : příprava lidí ke změně závislého chování. Edited by Petra Winnette. 1. vyd. v českém jazyce. Tišnov: Sdružení SCAN, 2003, xviii, 311. ISBN 8086620093. info
• AYERS, Susan and Richard DE VISSER. Psychologie v medicíně. Translated by Helena Hartlová. Vydání 1. Praha: Grada, 2015, xiv, 552. ISBN 9788024752303. URL info

recommended literature
• PROCHASKA, James O. and John C. NORCROSS. Psychoterapeutické systémy : průřez teoriemi. Praha: Grada, 1999, 479 s. ISBN 8071697664. 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 is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30.

• Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
  
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