BZAP0422p Psychotherapy and Applied Psychology - lecture

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025

The course is not taught in spring 2025

Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Marcela Bendová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Hana Jahnová (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Skřivanová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Marcela Bendová, Ph.D.
Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Marcela Bendová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites (in Czech)
BZPS0121p Psychology -lec.
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
Main objectives are : to acquire basic psychotherapeutic skills for work with patients and their families, to acquire psychotherapeutic approach towards problematic patients, to acquire basic psychotherapeutic approaches and relaxation methods. To understand and learn relaxation method – Autogenous training – as an own mental hygiene ability. To gets information and learn rules of psychotherapeutic approach toward patients in different medical fields - psychooncology, gynecology and obstetrics, neonatology, psychiatry, surgery, internal medicine…Rules of psychotherapeutic approach towards patient with acute or chronic illness.
Syllabus
  • Definition, kinds, targets of psychotherapy, recent ways of psychotherapy. Methods of psychotherapy, suggestive and hypnotic therapy, relaxation and imaginative psychotherapy, assertivness. Pain, depression, anxiety management. Defense mechanisms. Giving information, breaking bad news. Psychotherapeutic management of dying – from the patients, relatives and healthcare providers view. Psychotherapy in psychooncology, neonatology, geriatrics, home care, pediatrics, psychiatry, gynecology and surgery… Burn- out syndrome, mental hygiene, assertivness, asertivness training.
Literature
  • KRATOCHVÍL, Stanislav. Základy psychoterapie. Vyd. 2., dopl. a přeprac. Praha: Portál, 1998, 392 s. ISBN 80-7178-280-7. info
  • VYMĚTAL, Jan. Obecná psychoterapie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Psychoanalytické nakladatelství J. Kocourek, 1997, 295 s. ISBN 80-86123-02-2. info
  • VYMĚTAL, Jan. Úvod do psychoterapie. 1. vyd. Praha: Psychoanalytické nakladatelství, 1992, 170 s. info
  • BOUČEK, Jaroslav. Lékařská psychologie. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého, 2006, 141 s. ISBN 8024415011. info
  • VYMĚTAL, Jan. Lékařská psychologie. 3. aktualiz. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2003, 397 s. ISBN 80-7178-740-X. info
  • LANGMEIER, Josef, Karel BALCAR and Jan ŠPITZ. Dětská psychoterapie. 2. rozš. a přeprac. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2000, 431 s. ISBN 80-7178-381-1. info
Teaching methods
Type of teaching - lecture - 2 hours, practice - 1 hour.
Assessment methods
Requirements for the finishing of practice, form of finishing: credit - 80 per cent participation on the teaching, presentation of the personality of the student herself (basic anamnestic data, family, professional career and aims, hobbies) Active participation is expected, pairwork, teamwork. Requirements for finishing the practise, form of the finishing credit. Students will be informed about the requirements for getting the credit in written form, a seminar paper on a certain topic will be set (5 given topics and 1 topic of one's own) according to the requirements given. The content of the paper may be personal reflections and experiences supported by citation and examples from literature. A clear grasp of the topic, expression of an opinion of one's own, and ability to be work with sources (literature) will be evaluated. Content and professional quality of the topic will be evaluated by the teacher who will decide whether the seminar paper fulfills the requirements and exhausts the given topic. Colloquium has a form of a written test, the result of the test is evaluated in points, within the range from 0 to 25 points, minimum number of points for passing is 20 Total evaluation of the student in the subject is combined from the evaluation of the seminar paper and the perfomance at the colloquium.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Course is no more offered.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012.
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