Course: Selected chapters from psychiatry

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Course title Selected chapters from psychiatry
Course code KKO/P9PSY
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Wolna Andrea, MUDr.
Course content
Autochthonous disease model, anthropological paradigm in psychiatry. Psychopathology in advanced somatic diseases. Depression in palliative medicine. Etiopathogenesis, differential diagnosis of depression and dementia. Pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy of depression in oncological diseases. Primary and symptomatic brain lesions in advanced oncological diseases. Pseudoneurasthenia and dementia in paraneoplastic, metabolic, and iatrogenic encephalopathy. Delirium in the advanced stages of oncological diseases. Etiopathogenesis, clinical picture, treatment. Treatment of pain and its psychopathological complications in oncology. Pharmacoeconomics in psychiatry. V. E. Frankl's logotherapy. I. D. Yalom's existential psychotherapy I. Psychology and psychopathology of dying. Possibilities and limits of psychiatry and psychotherapy in palliative hospice care. Limit situations in palliative medicine, prevention of the burnout syndrome.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the lectures is to introduce the basic mental problems typical of palliative medicine, with an emphasis on pre-terminal and terminal stages of oncological diseases, their etiopathogenesis, clinical picture, differential diagnostics, and their prevention and treatment, including psychotherapy. Next, the aim is to introduce existential psychotherapy, as the theoretical foundation for guiding patients at the end of life.
The graduate will be able to independently diagnose mentioned disorders and to manage their treatment using a complex nursing process framework, will be able to make independent decisions during the physician's absence about complementing laboratory examinations and, if need be, about changes in pharmacological therapy, about the necessity of an examination by the treating physician as well as about consulting examinations by other physicians, or, if need be, by psychologists, and to indicate hospitalization of patients in home care. He/she will be able to organize the diagnostic and treatment process in a hospital as well as in home care.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Home assignment evaluation, Didactic test

Completion of compulsory 90% attendance at the practicum sessions and seminars. Successful completion of a written test. Completing assigned written work.
Recommended literature
  • FAIRMAN, N. at al. Clinical manual of Palliative Care Psychiatry. American Psychiatric As. Publishing, 2016.
  • FRANKL, V. E. Utrpení z nesmyslnosti života. Praha: Portál, 2016.
  • HAŠKOVCOVÁ, H. Thanatologie: nauka o umírání a smrti. 2. vyd. Praha: Galén, 2007.
  • HERMAN, E., PRAŠKO, J., SEIFERTOVÁ, D. Konziliární psychiatrie.. Praha: Galén, 2007.
  • JIRÁK, R. Gerontopsychiatrie. Praha: Galén, 2013.
  • KALVACH, Z. Geriatrické syndromy a geriatrický pacient. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2008.
  • Koukolík, František. Lidský mozek : [funkční systémy : norma a poruchy]. Praha: Galén, 2012. ISBN 978-80-7262-771-4.
  • MASOPUST, J.; URBAN, A.; VALIŠ, M. at al. Neuropsychiatrické případy. Praha: Galén, 2011.
  • McWILLIAMS, N. Psychoanalytická diagnóza. Praha: Portál, 2015.
  • RABOCH, J.; PAVLOVSKÝ, P. et al. Klinická psychiatrie v denní praxi. Praha: Galén, 2008.
  • WISE, N. T.; BIONDI, M.; COSTANTINI, A. Psycho-Oncology. American Psychiatric As. Publishing, 2013.
  • YALOM, D. I. Existenciální psychoterapie. Praha: Portál, 2006.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Health Studies Study plan (Version): Nursing in selected clinical specialties (2014) Category: Health service 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Health Studies Study plan (Version): Nursing in selected clinical specialties (2013) Category: Health service 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter