MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
2nd year - Stomatology (81147)

• Location: Faust house, Karlovo nám. 40 (Charles square), Prague 2, no. 11 (1st floor right)
• Time: winter semester, on Mondays, at 1.00pm - 2:30pm. First lecture on 2nd October 2023.
• The examination: rules for performance of examination

Winter semester

  1. The role of psychology in medicine
  2. Problems of helping professions
  3. Developmental specifics of child as a patient
  4. Role and importance of a family in the treatment of the patient
  5. Principles of comunication with the patient I.
  6. Principles of comunication with the patient II.
  7. Psychological work with pain and anxiety
  8. Psychological aspects of counselling
  9. Basics of psychosomatics I.
10. Basics of psychosomatics II.
11. Introduction to psychopathology
12. Basics of psychodiagnostics
13. Psychic crisis and psychological first aid
14. Issue of suicidality
15. The nature, limits and potential of psychotherapy

Compulsory literature:

Beran, J.: Communication between Doctor and Patient. Faculty of Medicine, Pilsen 1999

Recommended literature:

Bergin A.E., Garfield S.L.: Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavioural Change. Wiley, New York 1994
Corsini R.J.: Handbook of Innovative Psychotherapies. Wiley, New York 1981
DiMatteo, M. Robin: The Psychology of Health, Illness and Medical Care: An Individual Perspective. Brooks Cole, 1991, USA
Feuchtersleben, Ernst: The Principles of Medical Psychology. Ayer Co Pub, 1976, USA
Llewelyn, S.,Kennedy, P.: Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology. Wiley & Sons, Oxford 2003
Lloyd, Margaret, Bor, Robert: Communication Skills for Medicine. Churchill Livingstone.
Mathews, Andrew, Steptoe, Andrew: Essential Psychology for Medical Practice. Churchill Livingstone, 1988, UK
Milgrom, Jeanatte, Burrows, Graham: Psychology and Psychiatry: Integratig Medical Practice. John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2001, UK
Nezu, A., Nezu, C. & Geller, P.: Comprehensive Handbook of Psychology, Volume 9: Health Psychology. John Wiley & Sons, New York 2003
Prochaska, J. O., Norcross, J. C. : Systems of Psychotherapy. A Transtheoretical Approach. 3rd. Ed. Pacific Grove, Calif., Brooks/Cole, 1994
Rogers, C.R.: Client-Centred Therapy. Redwood Press Limitid, Melksham 1992
Silverman, Jonathan, Kurtz, Suzanne: Skills for Communicating with Patients.
Silverman, Jonathan, Kurtz, Suzanne, Draper, Juliet: Teaching and Learning Communication Skills in Medicine.
Weinman, Robert: An Outline of Psychology as Applied to Medicine. Butterworth, Heinemann, GB, 1995
Yalom, I.D.: The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy. Basic Books, New York 1975

E-learning:

- Beginning of the contact
- Building
- Burn-out syndrom
- Closing the session
- Explanation and planning
- Gathering information
- Interview
- Psychological approaches to pain
- Psychological ways of dealing with fear and anxiety
- Suicide

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