Syllabus
Lectures
Subject and History of Medical Psychology. Psychosomatic approach in medicine.
Response to Disease and Defense Mechanisms. Placebo and psychology of pain.
Doctor-Patient Communication. Psychology and the doctor patient relationship in out- and in- patients.
Basic Psychotherapeutic Skills and Schools.Crisis Intervention.
Death and Dying in Medicine. Suicidality. Ethical Aspects of Medicine.
Practical courses
Communication with patients - disabled patients.
Essays: purpose and topics. Interviewing patients: verbal and nonverbal communication.
Therapeutic relationship. Difficult patient: acting-out and other defenses.
Crisis intervention.Psychological management of anxiety, stress and pain. Submission of essays.
Seminar: discussion and presentation of essays for credit. Feed-back survey.
Notes:
The tutor responsible for practical classes: 2nd year 1. group Petr Hrubeš, M.D., 2. group Petr Mílek, M.D. lecturers:
MUDr. Petr mílek
PhDr. Kristýna Hosáková
Prof. MUDr.Jan Libiger, CSc. teachers:
PhDr. Kristýna Hosáková
Mgr. Martin Halíř
MUDr. Petr Hrubeš
MUDr. Jan Hubeňák
MUDr. Vladimír Klanica
MUDr. Richard Köhler
MUDr. Jan Libiger
MUDr. Petr Mílek
MUDr. Evgenii Sadykov
MUDr. Ivan Tůma
Annotation
Physician-patient relationship, communication skills, communication styles, difficult patient, uncooperative patient, death and dying, euthanasia. Attitudes to illness: response to disease, response to stress Psychosomatic medicine: models and theories, somatization, dissociation.
Evolutionary aspects in medicine. Pain and psychogenic aspects of pain.
Deprivation, frustration, hospitalism. Psychological environment in treatment.
Cognitive-behavioral model of psychological intervention. Placebo, compliance with drug treatment.