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Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy - B83160 (General Medicine - English parallel)
Title: Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Guaranteed by: Institute for Medical Humanities First Faculty of Medicine Charles University (11-00240)
Faculty: First Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
Points: 5
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, C [HT]
summer s.:2/3, MC [HT]
Extent per academic year: 120 [hours]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: Mgr. Vladimír Vavrda, Ph.D.
Comes under: Compulsory for GM 3.y._23/24
Attributes: Lékařství
Teoretický předmět
Interchangeability : B80471
Is pre-requisite for: B80629, B80760
Annotation
Last update: Jana Kolářová (12.02.2020)
The subject makes students familiar with the way human psyche functions and principles of doctor-patient communication. It pays attention to the doctor-patient relationship and various ways we can deal with it. Methods how to identify psychologically endangered individuals are introduced as well as principles of intervention. Psychosomatic problematics in discussed thoroughly.
Syllabus
Last update: Jana Kolářová (12.02.2020)
Lecture topics:

What is it medical psychology (biopsychosocial paradigm)

Individual as a system, consequences of therapy and therapeutic recommendations for patients life and patients compliance

Personality, subjective nature of experience

Psychological first aid

Doctor - patient - family relationship

Communication with the patient, how to deliver bad news

Psychological care for out-patients and their families

Psychological care for in-patients and their families

Psychosomatics and behavioral medicine, forms of psycho-somatic interactions

Disease-illness model, Calgary-Cambridge framework for medical interview

Illness and its development as a form of adaptation, manipulation with illness

Pain and how to deal with it using psychological means

Aggression, fear and anxiety and how to deal with them using psychological means

Psychology of death and dying

How to affect mind, behavior and health state using psychological means

Topics for seminars - winter:

Introduction to communication, nature of language

Phylogeny vs. ontogenesis, anchoring effect, conservatism, cognitive biases

Verbal communication, questioning

Empathy, authenticity, how to develop empathetic skills

Communication training - developing rapport

Communication training - getting information

Communication training - explanation, planning

Communication training - contract setting

Communication training - building relationship

Active listening training

Non-verbal communication

First contact with the patient

Communication with disabled patients

Topics for seminars - summer:

Observation, difference between observed and deduced

Observation training

Borders in doctor-patient relationship, patients transgressing borders

Dealing with psychologically difficult patients, aggressive a dangerous patient

Delivering serious news

Death and dying Risk of harming patient - iatropathogenesis

Psychological ways of dealing with pain

Burn-out syndrome, diagnostics, prevention

Suicide, identifying endangered people

Stress coping techniques

Evaluation of conducted supportive interview

Psychodiagnostics

Compliance

Dealing with medical errors

Literature - Czech
Last update: Jana Kolářová (12.02.2020)

Povinná:

  • Beran, Jiří. Doctor-patient communication. Praha: Karolinum, 1999, 100 s. ISBN 80-7184-846-8.

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: PhDr. Ing. Ingrid Hanušová, Ph.D. (01.04.2022)

For achieving the credit, the active presence in the seminar is needed and passing the examination (in writing or orally form).

 Questions for the examination:

 

QUESTIONS FOR THE MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAM

 

1. a / Ontogenesis of the human psyche

    b / Placebo effect

 

2. a / Peculiarities and specifics of work with a child patient

    b / Psychogenic iatropatogenesis

 

3. a / Human motivation

    b / Burnout syndrome

 

4. a / Family and its importance

    b / Man endangered of suicide

 

5. a / Patient-doctor relationship and their mutual communication

    b / Mental crisis and its types

 

6. a / Psychological approach to the patient and important persons of his life

    b / Alexithymia

 

7. a / Physician's communication with the patient

    b / Psychohygiene

 

8. a / Principles of communicating bad information to patients and their families

    b / Salutogenesis and resistance

 

9. a / First meeting with a patient in outpatient practice

    b / Coping with difficult life situations (coping)

  

10. a / Psychosomatics

      b / Bio-eco-psycho-social paradigm of medicine

 

11. a / Pain and its alleviation by psychological means

      b / Psychological first aid and crisis intervention

 

12. a / Anxiety and fear and their influence on the course of the disease and experiencing of it

      b / Therapeutic contract

 

13. a / Response to loss

      b / Anger and aggression of the doctor and the patient

 

14. a / Psychological reaction to the fact of dying and death

      b / Cooperation of the patient with the doctor

  

15. a / Response to stress

      b / Serious and critical life events

 

 

 

QUESTIONS FOR THE PSYCHOTHERAPY TEST

 

1. a / Definition of the field of psychotherapy and its goals

    b / Conditioning in psychotherapy

 

2 a / Specifics of psychotherapy with children and adolescents

   b / Relaxation methods

 

3. a / Indications of psychotherapy

    b / Authenticity (authenticity, congruence)

 

4. a / Traumatic memory, dissociation and psychotherapy

    b / Exposure therapy

 

5. a / Main forms of psychotherapy

    b / Transfer and counter-transfer

 

6. a / Main means (methods) of psychotherapy

    b / Neuroendocrine response to traumatic stress

 

7. a / Psychotherapeutic relationship

    b / Empathy

 

8. a / Psychotherapeutic process

    b / Cognitive techniques

 

9. a / General and specific effective factors of psychotherapy

    b / Consolidation of memory, traumatic memory and its neurobiological manifestations

 

l0. a / Behavioral therapy

     b / Acceptance (unconditional acceptance)

 

11. a / Non-verbal psychotherapeutic procedures

      b / Systemic family therapy

 

12. a / Conducting a psychotherapeutic interview

      b / Spontaneous remission

 

13. a / Psychotherapeutic contract

      b / Effective factors of group psychotherapy

 

14. a / Rogers´ psychotherapy

      b / Suggestive psychotherapeutic methods

 

15. a / Psychoanalytic psychotherapy

      b / Interpretation in psychotherapy

 

Education plan -
Schedule internship
Week of the block Summary of the internship Files Note Hodnocení
1The role of psychology in medicineLectures: U nemocnice 4, no.1.26 (DEKP2), winter semester, on Mondays at 11am - 12:30am. First lecture - 2nd October 2023.
Seminars: Faustus house, no. 15 (group 1,2) and no. 11 (group 3,4,5), Fridays 2:30-4:00pm, First seminar - 6th October 2023.
First lesson takes place at Institut of Anatomy, small lecture hall, all study groups together.
2Problems of helping professions 
3Developmental specifics of child as a patient 
4Role and importance of a family in the treatment of the patient 
5Principles of comunication with the patient I. 
6Principles of comunication with the patient II.  
7Psychological work with pain and anxiety 
8Psychological aspects of counselling 
9Basics of psychosomatics I.  
10Basics of psychosomatics II. 
11Introduction to psychopathology 
12Basics of psychodiagnostics 
13Psychic crisis and psychological first aid 
14Issue of suicidality 
15The nature, limits and potential of psychotherapy 
 
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