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Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:01.08.2024 13:12:22
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PMUPK_008 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Health Care | Target Audience: | Dentistry | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Romāns Beskrovnijs | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 30 Kristapa Street, pmpk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67210989 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 3 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 6 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 13 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 26 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Experience in working with patients. Understanding naturalistic and humanitarian concept of the psyche. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide basic knowledge of the theories of personality, personality functioning levels and personality structure. To provide knowledge of the psychoemotional and somatic factor interactions in etiopathogenesis of psychosomatic disorders. To provide knowledge of manifestation of chronic pain in dentist's practice. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | An overview of the development of psychotherapy. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Mental health. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Types of Crises. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Affectives, feelings and emotions. Emotion classification. Notions emotional intelligence and alecsityism. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Mental protection mechanisms. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Types of psychotherapy. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Functional levels. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | The doctor-patient relationships. The doctor-patient relationships in a dental clinic. Emotionally traumatic aspects in dental treatment and personal impact on it. Discussion. Projective tests. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Understanding of different personality structures: schizoid, hysterical. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Understanding of different personality structures: narcissistic, depressive. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Understanding of different personality structures: paranoid, antisocial. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Understanding of different personality structures: obsessive-compulsive, self-defeating. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | Somatization theory. Primary and secondary gain of illness. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 14 | Psychosomatics in dentistry. Dentist phobia. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 15 | Student clinical case presentation and analysis. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 16 | Final questions. Exam – multichoice test (written). | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Read the relevant literature before each class and prepare questions. Prepare clinical case presentations of patients from their practices, according to the topic of the class. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | I. Knowledge – the ability to define: 60%: 1. Patient mental health criteria (10%) 2. Mental protection mechanisms of the patient (10%) 3. Personality functioning levels of the patients (5%) 4. Basics of collecting psychosomatic history (anamnesis) (10%) 5. Principles of building a therapeutic dentist-patient relationship (10%) 6. Psychosomatic disorders in dentistry (chronic pain, etc.) (10%) 7. Definitions of personality, development theories (5%). II. Skills: 40%: 1. Basics of building a therapeutic dentist-patient relationship, communication with patients with different functioning levels (10%) 2. Dentist - patient support therapy elements (10%) 3. Basics of collecting psychosomatic history (anamnesis) (10%) 4. Diagnosis of psychosomatic disorders, differential diagnosis, evaluation of treatment strategies, analysis of clinical cases (10%). Automatic exam credit: 1. 100% attendance of classes and lectures AND 2. The student is an active participant in discussions and role plays. 3. According to the lecturer's instructions – prepares an essay in the amount of 5 – 6 pages, with the analysis of the questions asked by the lecturer. OR Prepares a presentation about: a) lesson topics (literature review); b) clinical case; c) latest research (according to the topic of the lesson). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Knowledge of etiopathogenesis of psychosomatic disorders and diseases in dental clinic. Understands how to create doctor-patient relationship and its therapeutic aspects. Analyses differences in doctor-patient relationship according to various personality structures. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students will be able to diagnose psychosomatic disorders and to understand their etiopathogenesis. Ability to provide supportive therapy elements in doctor-patient relationship. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students will recognize psychosomatic disorders in dental clinic patients and send them to the doctor-psychotherapist. They will manage to provide supportive therapy elements. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Medical-level empathy? Yup, chatGPT can fake that, 4.05.2023 | ||||||||
| 2 | Long- term impact of childhood trauma explained, 2.05.2023 | ||||||||
| 3 | Anger in adults a red flag for childhood trauma, 5.04.2023 | ||||||||
| 4 | Melatonin a new way to reduce self-harm, 27.03.2023 | ||||||||
| 5 | Vegetarians suffer more depression than meat eaters, 27.12.2022 | ||||||||
| 6 | Greater Handgrip Strength tied to lower risk for depression, 20.12.2022 | ||||||||
| 7 | Empathy fatigue in clinicians rises with latest COVID-19 surge, 16.09.2021 | ||||||||
| 8 | Why do we love sad music? Mourning our pain, 27.11.2018 | ||||||||
| 9 | Nancy McWilliams. Psychoanalytic diagnosis: Understanding personality structure in the clinical process. New York: Guilford Press, 2011 (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 10 | Nancy McWilliams. Psychoanalytic diagnosis: Understanding personality structure in the clinical process. New York: Guilford Press, 2011 (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 11 | Nature, Niche, and nurture. The role of social experience in transforming genotype into phenotype, 11.10.2011 | ||||||||
| 12 | Gunta Ancāne, Artūrs Utināns, Jekaterina Kovzeļa. Sociālās fobijas kā emociju iedzimtās komplementārās mijiedarbības izpausme interpersonālajās attiecībās. // Doctus. 2009. Nr. 4. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 13 | Gunta Ancāne, Andrejs Ancāns. Stress 21. gadsimtā. Kā palīdzēt sev un pacientiem. // Latvijas Ārsts. 2009. Nr.2 - 10.-15. lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 14 | Artūrs Utināns. Cilvēka psihe: tās darbība, funkcionēšanas traucējumi un ārstēšanas iespējas. Rīga: Nacionālais apgāds, 2005. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 15 | Glen O. Gabbard. Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 4th edition. American Psychiatric Publishing, 2005. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 16 | Glen O. Gabbard. Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 4th edition. American Psychiatric Publishing, 2005. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 17 | Gunta Ancāne. Ārsta un pacienta terapeitisko attiecību psihoemocionālie aspekti. //Latvijas Ārsts. 2005. Nr.6. - 77.-79. lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 18 | Gunta Ancāne. Psihosomatiskās medicīnas definīcija un īsa tās ideju attīstības vēsture. //Psiholoģijas Pasaule. 2004. Nr.2 - 36.-40. lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 19 | Gunta Ancāne. Ķermeņa un psihes saistība.//Psiholoģijas Pasaule. 2004. Nr.1 - 38.-43. lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 20 | Gunta Ancāne. Psihosomatiskie traucējumi un slimības. //Psiholoģijas Pasaule. 2004. Nr.4 - 44.-49. lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 21 | Gunta Ancāne. Hronisku sāpju stāvokļu psihosomatiska izpratne. //Latvijas Ārsts. 2004. Nr. 1 - 40.-43. lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 22 | Boris Luban-Plozza, W. Poldinger, F. Kroger. Psychosomatic disorders in general practice. Berlin: Sringler-Verlag, 1992. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 23 | Boris Luban-Plozza, W. Poldinger, F. Kroger. Psychosomatic disorders in general practice. Berlin: Sringler-Verlag, 1992. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Artūrs Utināns. DNS, matrice un cilvēku uzvedība. Rīga: Medicīnas apgāds, 2008. | ||||||||
| 2 | Zigmunds Freids. Ievadlekcijas psihoanalīzē. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2007.: | ||||||||
| 3 | 17. lekcija. Simptomu jēga. (187.-198. lpp.) | ||||||||
| 4 | 18. lekcija. Fiksācija uz traumu, bezapziņa. (198.-208. lpp.) | ||||||||
| 5 | 19. lekcija. Pretošanās un izstumšana. (208.-219. lpp.) | ||||||||
| 6 | Džons Boulbijs. Drošais pamats: vecāku un bērnu savstarpējā pieķeršanās - cilvēka veselīgas attīstības priekšnoteikums. Rīga: Rasa ABC, 1998. | ||||||||
| 7 | Heinz Kohut. The analysis of the self. London: The Hogarth Press, 2009 | ||||||||
| 8 | Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students | ||||||||
| 9 | Heinz Kohut. The analysis of the self. London: The Hogarth Press, 2009 | ||||||||
