LF:VSLP7X1 Medical Psychology - Course Information

VSLP7X1 Medical Psychology

Faculty of Medicine
Autumn 2002

Extent and Intensity

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

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

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

Syllabus

Integral concept of a disease. Relation between physical symptoms and psychic state. Psychosocial approach.
The importance of relationship between physician and patient. Forms of communication. Variables modifying physician-patient relationship on conscious and unconscious level.
Role of patient, experiencing disease, attitude to disease, meaning of the symptom.
Role of therapist, adaptive and maladaptive realization and attitudes.
Burn-out syndrome, its prevention, supervision of therapist's work (Balint's groups).
Unconscious defensive psychic mechanisms (of patient and of therapist). Work with transference nad countertransference phenomena.
Introduction into psychotherapy, basic psychotherapeutical approaches. Principles of intervention during acute psychic crisis.
Psychological problems of each developmental period.
Role of psychologist in medical team, psychodiagnostic methods.
Psychological specificity olf medical care in individual branches, care of long-term patients and dying patient, work with pain, anxiety.
Relationships and forms of communication in a team of therapists.

Literature

Vymětal, Jan. Lékařská psychologie. Praha: Portál, 2003. 396 s. ISBN 80-7178-740-X
ATKINSONOVÁ, Rita L. Psychologie [Atkinsonová]. 1. vyd. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1995, 862 s. : o. ISBN 80-85605-35-X. info
BAŠTECKÝ, Jaroslav, Jiří ŠAVLÍK and Jiří ŠIMEK. Psychosomatická medicína. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, Avicenum, 1993, 363 s. ISBN 8071690317. info
LANGMEIER, Josef and Dana KREJČÍŘOVÁ. Vývojová psychologie [Langmeier, 1998]. Vyd. 3., přeprac. a dopl., v. Praha: Grada Publishing, 1998, 343 s. : i. ISBN 80-7169-195-X. info
Rozumíme sami sobě? :neurotické zpracování konfliktů. Edited by Stavros Mentzos - Miloslav Korbelík. 1. vyd. Praha: Lidové noviny, 2000, 231 s. ISBN 80-7106-366-5. info
VYBÍRAL, Zbyněk. Co, čím, jak a s kým komunikujeme :přednášky o lidské komunikaci ve formě esejů. Hradec Králové: Gaudeamus, 1999, 91 s. ISBN 80-7041-123-6. info

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.
The course is taught: in blocks.