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Study Course Description

Psychosomatic Medicine IV

Main Study Course Information

Course Code

RPH_056

Branch of Science

Anatomy; Clinical medicine

ECTS

5.00

Target Audience

Medicine

LQF

Level 8

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor

Artūrs Utināns

Residency Speciality

Speciality

Psychotherapist

Supervisor of Medical Speciality

Artūrs Utināns

Contacts

About Study Course

Objective

Acquire dependence of knowledge and skills of psychosomatic medicine in compliance with the qualification of the psychotherapist. Provide knowledge and skills in diagnostics, differential diagnosis and treatment of psychosomatic disorders.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.Recognise and describe etiopathogenesis of psychosomatic disorders and diseases, as well as the clinic and potential treatment.

Skills

1.Diagnose and perform differential diagnosis in the case of psychosomatic disorders and elaborate the treatment tactics for treatment of the particular patients and being able to acquire psychosomatic anamnesis.

Competences

1.Example-based knowledge, skills and attitude essential for working at a hospital and for research, raising public awareness via media; understanding of a team-work (work in groups) and its functions, psycho-dynamics, crisis situations and their solution; as well as the ability to manage the work of a multi-disciplinary team and be part of such team, supervise doctors and medical staff.

Assessment

Individual work

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Individual work	-	-
Gcollection and presentation of psychosomatic history.

Examination

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Examination	-	-
Reflect understanding about psychosomatic disorders and their treatment.
2. Examination	-	-
Written exam on the topics covered in the study course.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME

Part 1

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Burnout syndrome. Definition, clinic, differential diagnosis.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Observation of infants in the maternity ward. Aspects of the mother-child relationship in the inpatient ward.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Group therapy for sexual, psychosomatic and somatic disorders. Support groups for chronically somatic patients.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Aspects of mother-child relationship in the outpatient department of children's diseases. Care and communication with the baby at home.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Emotional reactions of parents and children after notification of a prognostically serious diagnosis.

Total ECTS (Creditpoints):

5.00

Number of Residency Seminars:

Length (weeks):

Final Examination:

Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Required Reading

Kurt Fritzsche, Susan H. McDaniel, Michael Wirsching. Psychosomatic Medicine. An International Guide for the Primary Care Setting. Springer, 2019.

Silvano Arieti, Morton F. Reiser. American Handbook of Psychiatry. Volume Four. Organic Disorders and Psychosomatic Medicine. e-Book 2015 International Psychotherapy Institute.

Medically unexplained symptoms, somatisation, and bodily distress : developing better clinical services / [edited by] Francis Creed, Peter Henningsen, Per Fink. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Martine Derzelle. Towards a Psychosomatic Conception of Hypochondria. The Impeded Thought. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014.

Psychosomatic Medicine: An Introduction to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry by James J. and Robert G. Robinson, Jun 28, 2010.

Martine Derzelle. Towards a Psychosomatic Conception of Hypochondria. The Impeded Thought. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014.

Clinical Manual of Psychosomatic Medicine: A Guide to Consultation-liaison Psychiatry by Kemuel L. Philbrick, James R. Rundell, Pamela J. Netzel and James L., M.D. Levenson, Oct 10, 2011.

Additional Reading

Theatres of the Mind/Joyce/ McDougall. 1994.

George Fink. Encyclopedia of Stress, Four- Volume Set, 2nd ed. 2007.

Stressors and the Adjustment disorders/ Ed. Joseph D. Noshpitz, R. Dean Coddington. 1990.

Psychosomatic Medicine: A Companion to the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine, 2nd Ed by James A., M.D. Bourgeois, Robert E. Hales and Narriman C. Shahrokh, Nov 4, 2010.