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Study Course Description

Types of Psychotherapy

Main Study Course Information

Course Code

RPH_050

Branch of Science

Anatomy; Clinical medicine

ECTS

3.00

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

Provide knowledge and skills in different types of psychotherapy in compliance with the qualification of psychotherapist and psychosomatic medicine practitioner. Provide overview of the types of Psychotherapy applied in medicine, their characterisation, indications and contraindications.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.Recognise different types of psychotherapy, indications and contraindications.

Skills

1.Comparative analysis of indications and contraindications of different types of psychotherapy in the particular clinical case.

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	-	-
Essay on the analysis and contraindications of different types of psychotherapy.

Examination

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Examination	-	-
Resident expresses his/her knowledge and clinical/psychodynamic thinking.
2. Examination	-	-
Written exam.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME

Part 1

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Behavioral therapy. Its methods.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Cognitive theory. Cognitive psychotherapy, its methods. A.Elliss. Rational-emotional therapy; its theory and techniques.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Couples problems. Couples therapy.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Family therapy.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

CBT. Emotional scheme therapy.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Group psychodynamically / psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy.

Total ECTS (Creditpoints):

3.00

Number of Residency Seminars:

Length (weeks):

Final Examination:

Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Required Reading

Andreas Fryszer / Rainer Schwing. Handbook of Systemic Psychotherapy. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen, 2014.

Richard A. Gardner. Psychological Aspects of Divorce. e-Book. International Psychotherapy Institute, 2015.

Psychotherapy. A critical guide / R. van Deth. Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, part of Springer Media, 2013.

John C. Markowitz. Brief Supportive Psychotherapy: A Treatment Manual and Clinical Approach. Oxford university press, 2022.

Michael Barkham , Edited by Wolfgang Lutz , Edited by Louis G. Castonguay, Ed. Bergin and Garfield's Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change. 7th Edition. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2021.

Additional Reading

Utināns A. Cilvēka psihe. Tās darbība, funkcionēšanas traucējumi un ārstēšanas iespējas. Nacionālais apgāds, Rīga, 2005, 568.lpp.

Jane Naismith, Sandra Grant. Seminars in the psychotherapies 2007.

Mārtinsone, Kristīne. Mākslas terapija. Rīga: Raka, 2011.

Mārtinsone, Kristīne. Mākslu metodes un tehnikas profesionālajā darbībā. Rīga: Raka, 2011.

Lehrbuch der psychotherapeutischen Medizin/ Hrsg. Stephan Ahrens.1997.

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

Introduction to Psychoanalysis. Contemporary theory and practice/Anthony Bateman and Jeremy Holmes. 1995.

Psychodynamic Psychiatry in clinical practice; the DSM-IY ed./G.O. Gabbard 1994.

Models of brief psychodynamic therapy. Stanley B. Messer, C. Seth Warren. 1995.

10.

Introduction to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy technique/Sarah Fels Usher. 2nd Edition. 1994.

11.

Glen O. Gabbard. Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice. 4th Edition, 2005.

12.

Selected papers of S.H. Foulkes/Psychoanalysis and Group Analysis/Ed.by E. Folkes, 1990.

13.

Glossary. Psychoanalysis in Europe. 1998.

14.

The theory and practice of group psychotherapy/Irvin D. Yalom, 1995

15.

Case Approach to Counseling and Psychotherapy. 8th Edition / Gerald Corey. Brooks /Cole, Cengage Learning, 2013.

16.

Kulbergs. “Dinamiskā psihiatrija”. Jumava, 2001.

17.

The psyche of the body: ‘a Jungian approach to psychosomatics’ / Denise Gimenez Ramos. Brunner-Routledge, 2004.