FVP:UOSP031 Health Psychology - Course Information

UOSP031 Health Psychology

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. PaedDr. Eva Zacharová, Ph.D. (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 also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• General Nursing Studies (programme FVP, B5341-OSET)

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
• HALUZÍKOVÁ,J. Edukační činnost sestry. Distanční studijní opora a e-learningový kurz. URL info
• VYMĚTAL, J. Lékařská psychologie. Praha: Portál, 2003. info
• 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.

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