Course: Medical Psychology

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Course title Medical Psychology
Course code KOS/K6ZPV
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Tutorial
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Summer
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)
  • Hlaváčková Eva, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
The patient's personality, his life story, values, attitudes, concept of the disease, coping with the disease. The general nurse's personality, her soft skills, empathy, establishing rapport, fulfilling the principles of Patient Centred Care. Pain from a psychological point of view, fear, anxiety and their management. Psychological care for the dying and their loved ones. Working with a life story. Establishing a relationship, empathy, partnership. Self-reflection, work on developing soft skills. Basics of crisis intervention.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Stimulating activities (simulation, games, drama)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to give students basic information from the field of health and illness psychology and psychosomatic medicine, which are necessary for the profession of the general nurse.
The student understands the distinctiveness of the psyche during an illness, knows the effect of a health care institution on the patient as well as the health care workers and is able to eliminate its negative influence. He/she explains the psychological basis of selected illnesses and defects, knows and applies principles of a psychological approach to ill adults and children, to the handicapped, the dying, and the bereaved.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Student performance assessment

80 % compulsory attendance in seminars. Passing a written work. Passing an oral exam.
Recommended literature
  • ČÍŽKOVÁ, J. Poznání duševního života člověka. 4. vyd. Olomouc: Vydavatelství UP, 2012.
  • HEYESOVÁ, N. Základy sociální psychologie. 7. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2013.
  • Křivohlavý, J. Psychologie zdraví. 3. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7367-568-4.
  • ŘÍČAN, P. Psychologie osobnosti. 6. vyd. Praha: Grada Publishing, 208 s., 2010.
  • ŘÍČAN, P. Psychologie. 3. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2009.
  • Vágnerová, M. Psychopatologie pro pomáhající profese. Praha: Portál, 2012.
  • ZACHAROVÁ, E.; ŠIMÍČKOVÁ - ČÍŽKOVÁ, J. Základy psychologie pro zdravotnické obory. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-4062-1.


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