UOSP031 Health Psychology

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2019
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zdeňka Jelenová (lecturer)
Mgr. Zdeňka Jelenová (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Boris Iljuk, CSc.
Institute of Paramedical Health Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course is a part of a set of psychology courses. It is conceived as a theoretical and practical unit. It provides information on some issues of medical psychology. It deepens the knowledge important for professional management of demanding situations in care of individual needs of diseased, handicapped and dying human beings and for keeping of help and care provider's mental balance. Mental psychology is an applied field of psychology focused on the field of nursing and therapeutic care as well as other tasks related to diagnoses and therapy in medicine.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to medical psychology. Personal characteristics required for a job in medicine.
    2. Adaptation mechanisms, adaptation failures 1.
    3. Adaptation mechanisms, adaptation failures 2.
    4. Psychological issues of hospitalization, professional deformation (job conditioning).
    5. Relations between patients and medical staff. Relations between patients and health-service specialists.
    6. Psychology of pain, fear, anxiety and depression.
    7. Mental stress, the burn-out syndrome and civilization diseases, prevention of stress.
    8. Psychological attitude towards patients suffering from oncological diseases.
    9. Psychological attitude towards patients suffering from internal diseases.
    10. Psychological attitude towards patients suffering from surgical diseases and recipients of transplanted organs.
    11. Autoplastic picture of a disease. Subjective perception of a disease.
    12. A health-service specialist as a patient.
    13. Productive and non-productive behaviour of a nurse.
    14. Psychological attitude towards unconscious patients.
    15. Psychological attitude towards dialyzed patients.
    16. Health-service specialist's mental hygiene.
Literature
    recommended literature
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  • KŘIVOHLAVÝ, J. Psychologie nemoci. Praha: Grada, 2002. info
  • ŘÍMOVSKÁ, Z. Psychlogické aspekty dětského věku. Distanční studijní opora a e-learningový kurz. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2012. URL info
  • ŘÍMOVSKÁ, Z. Psychologické aspekty dospívání. Distanční studijní opora a e-learningový kurz. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2012. URL info
  • ČÍRTKOVÁ,L.,VITOUŠOVÁ,P., a kol. Pomoc obětem (a svědkům) trestných činů. Příručka pro pomáhající profese. Praha:Grada Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-80-247-2014-2. info
  • ZACHAROVÁ,E.,HERMANOVÁ,M., ŠRÁMKOVÁ,J. Zdravotnická psychologie. Teorie a praktická cvičení. Praha:Grada Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-80-247-2068-5. info
  • KŘIVOHLAVÝ, J. Psychologie zdraví. Praha: Portál, 2003. Praha: Portál,, 2003. ISBN 80-7178-774-4. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Attendance in a minimum of 80 per cent of classes is required for credit allocation.
Credit requirements: Attendance in a minimum of 80 per cent of seminars is required for completion. Students who could not attend a number of lessons for serious reasons will be assigned extra tasks. Active participation in practical sessions, presentation of a chosen topic.
Exam requirements: oral examination.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2009, Winter 2010, Summer 2012, Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018.
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