Course: Health psychology 2

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Course title Health psychology 2
Course code FZS/ZPS2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Woleská Jana, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Lectures: 1. Defence mechanisms: their basic division, the most common form of defence mechanisms in the sick individual, the influence and importance of defence mechanisms on the behaviour of the sick individual in the treatment process, the approach to the sick individual and work with him/her. 2. Psychological issues of childhood and adolescence: specifics of individual periods - newborn period, infant period, toddler period, preschool age, younger and older school age - prepubescence, pubescence and postpubescence, adolescence. Specifics of these periods, their normality and their psychopathology. Reaction of the childhood and adolescent individual to illness. 3. Psychological issues of adulthood: basic characteristics of adulthood and the division of adulthood, biological maturity of the individual, legal maturity of the individual and social maturity of the individual, normality and psychopathology of adulthood. The adult response to illness. 4. Psychological issues of old age (gerontology): basic characteristics and developmental boundaries of old age, changes typical of old age, specifics of old age and the aging process, normality of psychopathology in old age, diseases of old age. 5. Psychological issues of death and dying: basics of thanatology, the last stage of human life, palliative care. Exercises: 1. Defence mechanisms and individual behaviour in health and disease. 2. Psychological issues of childhood and adolescence and specifics in reactions and behaviour. 3. Psychological issues of adulthood - reactions and behaviour of the adult individual. 4. Psychological issues in old age, the last stage of a person's life. 5. Death and the finality of human existence, communication with the dying and the bereaved.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Practicum
Learning outcomes
The course Medical Psychology 1-2 is designed as a theoretical-practical unit and builds on the knowledge of general and developmental psychology. It focuses in detail on knowledge related to health psychology, clinical psychology, application of psychological knowledge in health care and psychological care of the patient. Stress management affects the management of psychological stress and stress in helping professions, psychosocial assistance, post-traumatic stress reaction and psychological first aid in disasters and disasters.
Students obtain knowledge in given course in accordance with requirements and course programme.
Prerequisites
Preconditions are frased in the annotation of the course and in the curriculum of the studying programme.

Assessment methods and criteria
Test

Classified credit: - 80% participation in exercises, - active involvement in teaching - reading recommended literature, - written test.
Recommended literature
  • AYERS, Susan a Richard DE VISSER. Psychologie v medicíně. Praha: Grada, 2015. ISBN 978-80-247-5230-3.
  • BAŠTECKÁ, B., MACH, J. Klinická psychologie. Praha: Portál, 2015. ISBN 978-80-262-0617-0.
  • RAUDENSKÁ, Jaroslava a Alena JAVŮRKOVÁ. Lékařská psychologie ve zdravotnictví. Praha: Grada, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-2223-8.
  • VÁGNEROVÁ, Marie. Současná psychopatologie pro pomáhající profese. Praha: Portál, 2014. ISBN 978-80-262-0696-5.
  • ZACHAROVÁ, Eva a Jitka ŠIMÍČKOVÁ-ČÍŽKOVÁ. Základy psychologie pro zdravotnické obory. Praha: Grada, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-4062-1.


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