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The Basics of Psychology and Psychopathology

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 450-2100/02
Abbreviation ZO
Course title The Basics of Psychology and Psychopathology
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Course coordinator PhDr. Radka Kozáková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Psychology - its position, definition, subject, tasks in contemporary society.
2. Psychological methods.
3. Personality and its structure.
4. Psychic processes, states and characteristics of personality.
5. Bio-psycho-social needs of man.
6. The importance of social support in health and illness.
7. Selected aspects of developmental psychology. Psychology of childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age.
8. Selected aspects of social psychology. Special features of social communication in the health and social facilities.
9. Challenging psychological situations - stress, frustration, deprivation, conflict.
10. Communication Introduction to the Problem. Verbal, nonverbal and therapeutic communication.
11. Communication - introduction to problems, definition of basic concepts. Communication models.
12. - 13. Verbal communication. Interview - The formal and content page of the interview. Questions (types of questions, effective dating). Dialogue as the highest form of personal interview. Specifics of the nurse's verbal communication with the patient. Paralingvistic characters. Non-verbal communication - mimics, proxemics, haptics, posturika, kinetics, gesture communication, speech of eyes and eyes, paralingvistics, communication by exterior adaptation.
14. - 15. Communication with selected patient groups. Communication with seniors. Communicating with patients with dementia.
16. Alternative and augmentative communication. Communicating with an aggressive patient.
17. Communicating with the dying patient and his relatives, communicating with the survivors.
18. Communication with disabled patients - specifics of communication with patients with visual impairment, communication with patients with auditory disabilities, communication with deafblind patients, communication with patients with speech impairment.
19. Classification of mental disorders. Biological treatment in psychiatry - pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment. Psycho-social treatment in psychiatry - psychotherapy, etc.
20.- 28. Introduction to Psychopathology (Consciousness and its Disorders, Perception and its Disorders, Emotions and Their Disorders, Thinking and its Disorders, Attention and Its Disorders, Memory and Its Disorders, Intellect and its Disorders, Soils and Their Disorders. and its disorders Sleep and its disorders)

E-learning

Materials are available at https://lms.vsb.cz/?lang=en

Literature

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Advised literature

MURRAY, H. A., MCADAMS, D. Explorations in personality. 7th ed. Oxford University Press, 2007. 816 s. ISBN 019530506X .
RAUDONIS, B.M. Hospice and Palliative Care. In: HOGSTEL, O.
Gerontology: Nursing Care of the Older Adult. USA: Delmar, 2001. s. 441 – 451. ISBN 0-7668-0729-0 .
SCHUSTER, P., NYKOLYN, L. Communication for nurses. How to prevent harmful events and promote patient safety. 1st ed. Philadelphia: F. A.
Davis Company, 2010. 201 s. ISBN 978-0-8036-2080-3 .
MALLOCH, K., PORTER-O’GRADY, T. Introduction to evidence-based practice in nursing and health care. 2nd ed. Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett, 2010.
355 p. ISBN 978-0-7637-6542-2 .
POTTER, P. A., PERRY, A. G. Fundamentals of Nursing. 6th ed. St. Louis:
Mosby, 2005. 1728 s. ISBN 0-323-02586-2 .
TUCKER, S. M., CANOBBIO, M. M., PAQUETTE, E. V., WELLS, M. F. Patient Care Standards. Collaborative Planning and Nursing Interventions. 7th ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 2000. 967 p. ISBN-13: 978-0-323-00996-6 . ISBN10:0-323-00996-4 .