UODK027 Health Psychology

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2017
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jana Haluzíková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Jana Haluzíková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Jana Haluzíková, Ph.D.
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
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. Learning outcomes: Professional knowledge: The students can define the psychological substance of a disease. They can explain the relation between somatopsychic and psychosomatic illnesses. They are able to explain the importance of medical psychology in nursing. They can explain changes in a mental balance in relation to altered medical conditions. They are able to define principles of nurse's productive and non-productive behaviour. Professional skills: The students can make use of their psychological knowledge in an everyday contact with clients/patients and to take measures to maintain their own emotional and mental stability. General ability: The students can define prerequisites for performance of medical jobs, issues of an illness and its effects on patient's mental condition. The students can decide independently on the right attitude towards patients with oncological, internal or any other diseases as well as towards dying patients, patients in resuscitation care and to choose it appropriately. Competence: The students can manage demanding situations in their professions while providing care of ill, handicapped and dying human beings.
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
    required literature
  • VYMĚTAL, J. Lékařská psychologie. Praha: Portál, 2003. info
  • KŘIVOHLAVÝ, J. Psychologie nemoci.Praha: Grada Publishing , 2002. info
  • HALUZÍKOVÁ, J. Zdravotnická psychologie. Distanční studijní opora [online]. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2008. URL info
  • ZACHAROVÁ, E., HERMANOVÁ, M., ŠRÁMKOVÁ, J. Zdravotnická psychologie. Teorie a praktická cvičení. Praha: Grada, 2007. ISBN 978-80-247-2068-5. info
  • KŘIVOHLAVÝ, J. Psychologie zdraví. Praha: Portál, 2003. Praha: Portál,, 2003. ISBN 80-7178-774-4. info
    recommended literature
  • JUŘÍČKOVÁ, V. Péče o duševní zdraví. Distanční studijní opora a e-learningový kurz. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2012. URL info
  • ZACHAROVÁ, E., ČÍŽKOVÁ-ŠIMÍČKOVÁ, J. Základy psychologie pro zdravotnické obory. Praha: Grada, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-4062-1. 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: Přednáška 3 HOD/SEM, Seminář 3 HOD/SEM.
Teacher's information
Credit allocation is conditioned by attendance in a minimum of 80 per cent.
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 selected topic.
Exam requirements: oral examination.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Winter 2018.
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