Syllabus
* 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
Annotation
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.