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Fundamentals of Mental Health
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:8.00
Study Course Accepted:01.08.2024 13:03:06
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PMUPK_032 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine | Target Audience: | Public Health | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Laura Valaine | ||||||||
| 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) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 10 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To promote the acquisition of knowledge about the regularities of human psychic functioning, the interaction of social and psychic processes, the mechanisms of crisis development and crisis management, as well as to gain an idea of the psychodynamic processes taking place in communication. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | 1. Mental health criteria. The unity of mental and physical health - anatomical, physiological, social aspects. The biopsychosocial model in medicine. The main etiopathogenetic factors of diseases and disorders in the opinion of a public health specialist. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Mental health and psychosomatic disorders and diseases, interrelationships thereof. Incidence of psychosomatic patients. Types of psychosomatic diseases and disorders, prevalence, challenges they pose to the health care system. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | 1. Differences in building communication and therapeutic relationship. Medicine and the patient (“the inadmissibility of ‘client’ in medicine”). Aspects of the interaction between ethics and professionalism. 2. The ability to listen. Active and passive listening. Talking. Pauses. The difference between a casual conversation and a professional conversation. 3. Empathy, sympathy and antipathy in communication. Role of emotions in communication. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | The concepts of stress, distress and eustress. Stress management. Emotional crises, types. Prevention of emotional crises. Crisis intervention. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | The concept of personality. The topographical and structural model of the functioning of the psyche. Forms of the expression of subconsciousness in everyday life: slip of the tongue and formation of symptoms, conflict between the conscious and unconscious feelings. Mental defence mechanisms. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Levels of personality functioning and types of personality organisation. 1. Neurotic level of functioning: identity, contact with the reality, mental defence mechanisms, internal conflict and ability to form relationships. 2. Borderline level of functioning: identity, contact with the reality, mental defence mechanisms, internal conflict and ability to form relationships. 3. Psychotic level of functioning: identity, contact with the reality, mental defence mechanisms. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Group discussion of the first lecture material. Biopsychosocial model in medicine. Heatlhcare systems role in the concept of health. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Group discussion of the second lecture material. Psuchosomatic medicine- etiology of symptoms, clinics, treatment options. Role of doctor-patients relationship in the management of psychosomatic disorders. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Seminar and group discussion on depressive, manic personality structure. Patient case. 1. Depressive personality organisation: leading affects, mental defence mechanisms, coping strategies, internal conflict, object relations; specifics of the patient-doctor relationship formation. 2. Manic personality organisation: leading affects, mental defence mechanisms, coping strategies, internal conflict, object relations; specifics of the patient-doctor relationship formation. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Seminar and group discussion on narcissistic personality structure. Patient case. Narcissistic personality organisation: leading affects, mental defence mechanisms, coping strategies, internal conflict, object relations; specifics of the patient-doctor relationship formation. Analysis of video materials. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Seminar and group discussion on obsessive-compulsive structure. Patient case. Obsessive-compulsive personality organisation: leading affects, mental defence mechanisms, coping strategies, internal conflict, object relations, specifics of the patient-doctor relationship formation. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Seminar and group discussion on masochistic personality structure. Patient case. Masochistic personality organisation: leading affects, mental defence mechanisms, coping strategies, internal conflict, object relations; specifics of the patient-doctor relationship formation. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | Seminar and group discussion on hysterical and dissociative personality structure. Patient case. 1. Hysterical personality organisation: leading affects, mental defence mechanisms, coping strategies, internal conflict, object relations; specifics of the patient-doctor relationship formation. 2. Dissociative personality organisation: leading affects, mental defence mechanisms, coping strategies, internal conflict, object relations; specifics of the patient-doctor relationship formation. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 14 | Seminar and group discussion on paranoid and schizoid personality structure. Patient case. 1. Paranoid personality organisation: leading affects, mental defence mechanisms, coping strategies, internal conflict, object relations; specifics of the patient-doctor relationship formation. 2. Schizoid personality organisation: leading affects, mental defence mechanisms, coping strategies, internal conflict, object relations; specifics of the patient-doctor relationship formation. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 15 | Seminar and group discussion on antisocial personality structure. Patient case. Antisocial personality organisation: leading affects, mental defence mechanisms, coping strategies, internal conflict, object relations; specifics of the patient-doctor relationship formation. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 16 | Closing topics. Examination (written). | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | To get acquainted with appropriate literature before each class, prepare questions. Preparation and analysis of patient case descriptions. 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: | Criteria for assessing students’ knowledge: I. Knowledge – the ability to define: 75%: 1. Patient mental health criteria (15%) 2. Patient mental protection mechanisms (15%) 3. Personality definitions, theories of development, levels of personality functioning of patients (15%) 4. The notion of psychosomatic disorders and diseases, theories of somatization (15%) 5. Differences in communication with patients and with customers (15%). II. Skills: 25%: 1. Principles of public health specialist-patient/client relationship building (25%). Automatic pass in the exam: 1. 100% class and lecture attendance. AND 2. The student actively participates in discussions and role plays. 3. According to the lecturer’s instructions – writing an essay of 5-6 pages, in which the questions asked by the lecturer are analysed. OR Preparing a presentation on: a) a topic of cycle classes (literature review); b) a clinical case; c) the latest research (according to the topic of the class). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students will be able to describe the structure, development and regularities of functioning of human personality, as well as the influence of emotional and social factors on human psychological development and functioning; crisis development mechanisms, their impact on human psychosocial functioning and crisis management options. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students will be able to resolve conflicts and use crisis management techniques in practical exercises. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students will analyse different types of examples of personality traits and relationships, analyse different group processes and conflict situations in clinical examples. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Women at higher risk for inflation-related stress, 24.05.2023 | ||||||||
| 2 | Medical-level empathy? Yup, chatGPT can fake that, 4.05.2023 | ||||||||
| 3 | Melatonin a new way to reduce self-harm, 27.03.2023 | ||||||||
| 4 | Epigenetics, satiety, and predictive markers of obesity, 27.02.2023 | ||||||||
| 5 | Beyond the psychedelic effect: ayahuasca as antidepressant, 10.02.2023 | ||||||||
| 6 | Emotional eating tied to risk for diastolic dysfunction, 19.01.2023 | ||||||||
| 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 | German survey on assisted suicide: how to handle this? Where should caution be exercised?, 16.09.2022 | ||||||||
| 11 | Social isolation, Loneliness tied to death, MI, stroke: AHA, 4.08.2022 | ||||||||
| 12 | Physicians react: burnout rates are alarming, so who should drive change? 6.06.2022 | ||||||||
| 13 | K. Abrahamsson. R. Ennals. Sustainable work in Europe. Concepts, Conditions, Challenges. 2022 Edited Collection. 342 Pages | ||||||||
| 14 | Empathy fatigue in clinicians rises with latest COVID-19 surge, 16.09.2021 | ||||||||
| 15 | Why men need mind-body medicine now more than ever, 2.04.2020 | ||||||||
| 16 | G.Ancāne, A.Utināns, A.Ancāns, A.Miksons. Chapter 16: Psychosomatic Medicine in the Baltic States, Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation./ Leigh, Hoyle. Global Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: Theory, Research, Education, and Practice / Springer International Publishing, 2019. -VIII, 365-382. (atbilstošā nodaļa ir ievietota e-vidē) | ||||||||
| 17 | Why do we love sad music? Mourning our pain, 27.11.2018 | ||||||||
| 18 | The 8 things that end childhood too soon: what clinicians should know, 30.06.2017 | ||||||||
| 19 | Why do depressed doctors suffer in silence? – 27.06.2017 | ||||||||
| 20 | Stress and depression mediated by single brain protein, 20.11.2014 | ||||||||
| 21 | How the brain responds to trauma, 24.09.2014 | ||||||||
| 22 | Long work hours wreak havoc in MDs, Personal lives, 23.09.2013 | ||||||||
| 23 | Nature, Niche, and nurture. The role of social experience in transforming genotype into phenotype, 11.10.2011 | ||||||||
| 24 | Gunta Ancāne. Krīze, phenomenon ranularum un psihiskā veselība. Latvijas ārsts, 2009, 12, 10-13. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 25 | Arturs Utināns. Cilvēka psihe. Tās darbība, funkcionēšanas traucējumi un ārstēšanas iespējas. Nacionālais apgāds. 2005. 568 lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 26 | Implementing the care programme approach in psychotherapeutics settings, 2004 | ||||||||
| 27 | Post-traumatic stress disorder: symptom profiles in men and women, 2003 | ||||||||
| 28 | Physical symptoms and physician-experienced difficulty in the physician –patient relationship, 1.05.2001 | ||||||||
| 29 | Džons Boulbijs. Drošais pamats. Rasa, ABC. 1998. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Gunta Ancāne. Hronisku sāpju stāvokļu psihosomatiska izpratne//Latvijas Ārsts.- 2004. Nr1.- 40- 43 | ||||||||
| 2 | Gunta Ancāne. Ķermeņa un psihes saistība//Psiholoģijas Pasaule.-2004.-Nr.1-38.-43.lpp | ||||||||
| 3 | Gunta Ancāne. Psihosomatiskās medicīnas definīcija un īsa tās ideju attīstības vēsture//Psiholoģijas Pasaule.2004.2. 36- 40. | ||||||||
| 4 | Gunta Ancāne. Sirds–asinsvadu sistēmas un elpošanas sistēmas psihosomatiska.//Psiholoģijas pasaule.-2004./6; 34-39. | ||||||||
| 5 | Gunta Ancāne. "Ārsta un pacienta terapeitisko attiecību psihoemocionālie aspekti." //Latvijas Ārsts.-2005/6. 77.-79. | ||||||||
| 6 | Gunta Ancāne. “Psihosomatiskie traucējumi un slimības” //Psiholoģijas Pasaule.-2004/04; 44.-49. | ||||||||
| 7 | Gunta Ancāne. “Ēšana kā komunikācija un ēšanas traucējumi” //Psiholoģijas Pasaule.-2004/05; 18.-23. | ||||||||
| 8 | Gunta Ancāne. “21.gadsimta modernā slimība – izsīkuma jeb izdegšanas sindroms” //Psiholoģijas Pasaule.-2004/07; 26-31. | ||||||||
| 9 | Gunta Ancāne, D.Šmite, A.Ancāns. Emocionāla distresa un muskuloskeletālas disfunkcijas mijiedarbība pacientiem ar hroniskām muguras lejasdaļas sāpēm/ /Zinātniskie raksti: 2006.g.medicīnas nozares pētnieciskā darba publikācijas. RSU.-Rīga, 2007.-86.-96.lpp. | ||||||||
| 10 | Daniel Goleman. Tava emocionālā inteliģence Rīga : Jumava, 2019 | ||||||||
