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Medical and Communication Psychology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:01.08.2024 13:27:25
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PMUPK_015 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Health Care | Target Audience: | Medical Services | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Lelde Smilte-Breča | ||||||||
| 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) | 2 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 4 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 7 | Class Length (academic hours) | 4 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 28 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | An idea of the dual, scientific and humanitarian nature of psychic processes. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Students should acquire knowledge about the interaction of psychic and somatic processes and develop the skill of building a therapeutic relationship with the patient. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Biopsychosocial model in medicine. Stress and stressors, biopsyopathological vulnerability model. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Affects, feelings and emotions. Classification of emotions. Concepts of emotional intelligence and alexithymia. Somatization, somatization theories. The role of emotions in the somatization process. Biodynamic processes and psychodynamic processes. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | The concept of therapeutic relationship. The ability to listen. Empathy, sympathy, antipathy in therapeutic communication. The role of emotions in communication. Communication and types of communication are described. The ability to listen. The concept of empathy. The role of empathy, sympathy and antipathy in the therapeutic relationship with the patient. The practical part – role playing. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Concept of psychotherapy and types of psychotherapy. Definition of psychotherapy. Aims, indications and contraindications of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy process – evaluation phase, initial phase of therapy, working through phase and termination phase. Phenomena of transference, countertransference and resistance. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Psychic defense mechanisms. The relationship between conflict, anxiety and psychic defense mechanisms. Definition of psychic defense mechanisms. Primary and secondary defense mechanisms. Examples of psychic defense mechanisms. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Personality functioning levels - neurotic, borderline and psychotic functioning level. Building a therapeutic relationship. The practical part – role playing. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Overview of personality organization structures, manifestations of therapeutic relationships. Paranoid, schizoid, dependent, antisocial, narcissistic, dissociative, hysterical personality structure. Analysis of patient cases. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Overview of organizational structures of personality, manifestations of therapeutic relationships. Masochistic, depressive, manic, obsessive-compulsive personality structure. Analysis of patient cases. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Analysis of clinical cases. Summary. Final questions and answers. Exam. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Read the relevant literature before each lesson, and prepare questions. 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 – an ability to define (60%): 1. Patient’s mental health criteria (20%); 2. Patient’s psychic defense mechanisms (20%); 3. Main principles of specialist – patient relationship in orthotics and prosthetics (20%). II. Skills (40%): 1. Main principles of forming the therapeutic relationship in orthotics and prosthetics (20%); 2. Elements of supportive psychotherapy in orthotics and prosthetics (20%). Automatic pass in exam: 1. 100% attendance of classes and lectures; AND 2. Student is actively participating in discussion and role-playing; 3. By lecturer’s indication – an essay of 5 – 6 pages is written, where the student analyzes the questions that are given by the lecturer; OR The student has prepared a presentation on: a) the topic of the class (literature review); b) clinical case review; c) latest research article (according to the topic of the class). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Knowledge of the interaction of psychic and somatic processes and competence in the formation of a therapeutic relationship between a prosthetic orthotic specialist and a patient. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Skills to make therapeutical relationships with patients and to provide emotional support. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | To analyse the role of physical, emotional and social factors in etiology and pathogenesis of disease. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Sudraba, V., & Skaldere-Darmudasa, G. (2022). Psihosomatiskā medicīna. Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte | ||||||||
| 2 | Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process, Nancy McWilliams, 2020 | ||||||||
| 3 | Medical-level empathy? Yup, chatGPT can fake that, 4.05.2023 | ||||||||
| 4 | Long- term impact of childhood trauma explained, 2.05.2023 | ||||||||
| 5 | Anger in adults a red flag for childhood trauma, 5.04.2023 | ||||||||
| 6 | Melatonin a new way to reduce self-harm, 27.03.2023 | ||||||||
| 7 | Vegetarians suffer more depression than meat eaters, 27.12.2022 | ||||||||
| 8 | Greater Handgrip Strength tied to lower risk for depression, 20.12.2022 | ||||||||
| 9 | What happens when doctors and patients interrupt each other?, 23.11.2022 | ||||||||
| 10 | Empathy fatigue in clinicians rises with latest COVID-19 surge, 16.09.2021 | ||||||||
| 11 | Why do we love sad music? Mourning our pain, 27.11.2018 | ||||||||
| 12 | A.Utināns - Cilvēka psihe Tās darbība, funkcionēšanas traucējumi un ārstēšanas iespējas. Nacionālais apgāds. 2005. 568 lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 13 | J. Kulbergs – Dinamiskā psihiatrija. Jumava. 2001. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | B. Luban - Plozza, W. Poldinger, F. Kroger – Psychosomatic Disorders in General Practice. Springler – Verlag. 1992. | ||||||||
| 2 | H. I. Kaplan, B. J. Sadoc – Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. 2017. | ||||||||
