UOGP027 Medical Psychology

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/10/8. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jana Haluzíková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Jana Haluzíková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Yvetta Vrublová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Jana Haluzíková, Ph.D.
Institute of Paramedical Health Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Slováček Hagenová
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FAKULTA(FVP) && TYP_STUDIA(B) && FORMA(P)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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 medical psychology issues. It deepens the knowledge important for professional management of challenging situations in care for individual needs of diseased, handicapped and dying human beings and for keeping of mental balance of the provider of help and care. Medical psychology is an applied field of psychology, focused on the field of nursing and therapeutic care as well as on other tasks related to diagnoses and therapy in medicine.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to medical psychology. Personal characteristics required to practice a job in medicine.
    2. Adaptation mechanisms, adaptation failures 1.
    3. Adaptation mechanisms, adaptation failures 2.
    4. Psychological issues of hospitalization, professional deformation.
    5. Relations between patients and medical staff. Relation between patients and health-service specialists.
    6. Psychology of pain, fear, anxiety and depression.
    7. Mental stress, burn-out syndrome and lifestyle diseases, stress prevention.
    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. 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.
    17. Health-service specialist's personality, psychotherapeutic interview.
    18. Mental crisis, psychological first aid and crisis intervention.
    19. Quality of life.
    20. Forms and tools of psychotherapy.
Literature
    required literature
  • HALUZÍKOVÁ, Jana. Psychologie ve zdravotnictví. Distanční studijní opora. Opava: Slezská univerzita, 2021, 148 pp. info
    recommended literature
  • GURKOVÁ, Elen. Kvalita života. Praha: Grada, 2011, 224 pp. info
  • KŘIVOHLAVÝ, J. Psychologie zdraví. Praha: Portál, 2003. ISBN 80-7178-774-4. info
  • KŘIVOHLAVÝ, J. Psychologie nemoci. Praha: Grada, 2002. ISBN 80-247-0179-0. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Seminář 10 HOD/SEM, Cvičení 8 HOD/SEM.
Teacher's information
The credit is conditioned by compulsory 80% attendance at lessons at the minimum.
Credit requirements: 80% active attendance at practical sessions (the teacher can specify substitutive way of fulfilment of study duties to students who cannot attend compulsory lessons for serious reasons) Active attendance at seminar practical sessions.
Requirements on exam: oral exam.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2024.
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