LF:aVLLP7X1 Medical Psychology - Course Information

aVLLP7X1 Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics

Extent and Intensity

15/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

MUDr. Šárka Kárová, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, 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

Prerequisites

aVLLP0633c Clinical Introduction III - p
Lecturer 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

• 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:
- Integrate psychology into the context of basic medical education for future health care professionals
- Introduce psychology as an essential part of competent medical practice
- Provide a theoretical context / field to integrate the information gained so far about the functioning of the body with the principles of functioning of the psyche
- Present the complex outcomes of psychological science and clinical practice at the level of principles that can be applied in the work of a professional in the health care sector, to the benefit of his / her patients, as well as of the whole health teams
- Enhance students' understanding on the basic psychological and psychotherapeutic principles, whose understanding is necessary not only for the understanding of health and illness but also for communication with patients in these states
- To acquaint students with the bio-psycho-social model of health and illness
- Helping students understand a human being as a psychophysiological unity
- To teach students to work with the basics of field theory, holistic approach and model "Connections and Health" / Autoregulation and Allostasis
- To acquaint students with basic communication algorithms that can be applied in various contexts and situations of medical practice
- Specify the possibilities of application of psychology in various fields of medicine

Learning outcomes

- Student understand why psychology is important in medicine and distinguishes different approaches to disease and health
- Student understands the relationship between emotion, motivation and health
- Student understands the interaction approach to stress and the relationship of stress, health and illness
- Student understands the risks of stress in performing the profession of medical doctor / healthcare professional. Student can identify symptoms of chronic stress and knows the principles of their management and prevention in the process of developing the burnout syndrome
- Student is able to explain the role of different psychological factors in physical symptoms
- Student understands to placebo and nocebo effects and how they affect illness and recovery
- Student understands the importance of health behavior and health behavior change, student knows the different models of health behavior and understand how to apply these models in clinical practice
- Student will learn about the psychosocial relationships of chronic and incurable diseases
- Student will understand how developmental changes throughout life affect communication between doctor and patient
- Student will learn the basic communication skills necessary for conducting the clinical interview
- Student will know theoretical bases of various psychological therapies used in medical context
- Student will become acquainted with the psychosomatic paradigm in medicine
- The student will get acquainted with basic psychodiagnostic methods, possibilities and limits of psychological assessment

Syllabus

• - Psychology and medicine, why is psychology important in medical practice
• - Definitions of health, comparison of biomedical and biopsychosocial approaches
• - Motivation, emotion, and health
• - Stress and health
• - Symptoms and illness
• - Health and behavior
• - Chronic illness, death, and dying
• - Developmental psychology in medical context
• - Clinical interviewing
• - Psychotherapeutic approaches, general psychotherapeutic interventions for professionals in medical practice
• - Psychosomatic paradigm, psychophysiological integration such as “body-mind” integration
• - Basic explanatory models of psychosomatic diseases
• - Psychological assessment

Literature

• AYERS, Susan and Richard DE VISSER. Psychology for medicine. First published 2011. Los Angeles: Sage, 2011, xiv, 530. ISBN 9781412946902. info

Teaching methods

Theoretical preparation, self-experience exercises, training of communication skills.

Assessment methods

Full attendance is required. Final Examination - Oral Form

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.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: celkem 15 hod.

• Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2018, recent)
  
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