Course: Psychosomatic Disorders

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Course title Psychosomatic Disorders
Course code FYT/FTB37
Organizational form of instruction Exercise
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Vondroušová Zuzana, Mgr.
  • Kolář Petr, MUDr. Ph.D.
  • Můčková Anita, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Introduction to psychosomatic medicine, stress theory, stress model and stressors. Human needs and their fulfillment, frustration reactions, results of unmanaged frustration, life event theory. Mental disorders resulting from stress, reactions to a serious stress, adaptation disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder. Stress disorder treatment from the psychosomatic perspective. Demonstration of stress disorder patient, analysis, discussion. (In case of no patient availability: case report, discussion). Model for development of psychosomatic disorders, the influence of behavior for developing an illness, psychosomatic disorders, etiology factors, stages. Psychosomatic data collection (anamnesis). Stress factors in healthcare workers.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
Learning outcomes
Introduction to psychosomatic medicine issues, the theory of stress, the stress model and stressors. People's needs and their fulfillment, reaction to frustration, theory of life events. Psychological disorders resulting from stress; treatment of stress disorders from the psychosomatics point of view; stress factors in healthcare professionals, burn-out syndrome, and prevention.
Students will learn basic psychological approaches to diagnostics of symptoms from the field of psychosomatics and will be able to apply them in clinical practice.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Dialog

Attendance at seminars, active involvement
Recommended literature
  • Dahlke, R., Dethlefsen, T.. (1995). Nemoc jako cesta. Aquamarin.
  • DANZER, G. (2010). Psychosomatika. Praha.
  • Faleide Asbjorn O., Lian Lilleba B., Faleide Eyolf K. (2010). Vliv psychiky na zdraví: soudobá psychosomatika. Praha: Grada.
  • Irmiš, F. (2014). Stres mezi lékařem, pacientem a zdravou osobou: příklady, příčiny, psychosomatika, etika. Praha: Galén.
  • Koh, K. B. (2013). Somatization and psychosomatic symptoms. New York, NY: Springer.
  • Kubešová. (2006). Praktický lékař a psychosomatická medicína. Brno: Protis.
  • Miklánek, J. (2014). Psychosomatická medicína pro každého, aneb, jak se chtít skutečně vyléčit. Zlín: Tigris.
  • Poněšický, J. Neurózy, psychosomatická onemocnění a psychoterapie.
  • Poněšický, J. (2014). Psychosomatika pro lékaře, psychoterapeuty i laiky: souvislosti mezi zvládáním životních problémů, tělesným zdravím a nemocí. Praha: Triton.
  • TRESS, Wolfgang, Johannes KRUSSE, Jürgen OTT. (2008). Základní psychosomatická péče. Praha: Portál.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences Study plan (Version): Physiotherapy (2019) Category: Health service 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer