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Study Course Description
Introduction to Psychosomatics
Course Code
PMUPK_036
Branch of Science
Clinical medicine
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Public Health
LQF
Level 6
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Līva Mača
Structure Unit Manager
Māris Taube
Structural Unit
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy
Contacts
Riga, 30 Kristapa Street, pmpk@rsu.lv, +371 67210989
About Study Course
Objective
The objective is to improve the knowledge about consistent patterns of human psychic functioning and the interaction of psychic and somatic processes.
Preliminary Knowledge
An understanding of dual nature of psychic processes, pertaining to both nature science and humanitarian science.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Students will be able to: analyze the role of psychic factors in case of somatic disease; evaluate the psychodynamic aspects of pharmacological therapy; describe the etiopathogenesis of psychosomatic disorders and diseases; define and discuss the basic principles of communication.
Skills
1.Students will be able to: briefly describe the etiopathogenesis in a case of a psychosomatic disease, explain the possibilities of use of the placebo effect; demonstrate the basic elements of therapeutic communication.
Competences
1.Students will be able to analyze the role of biological, emotional, and social factors in etiology and pathogenesis of the disease.
Assessment
Individual work
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Analysis of video material during a class. 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. |
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Examination
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10 points
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I. Knowledge – ability to define: 80%: 1. Biopsychosocial approaches in medicine (20%); 2. The importance of psychosomatic health in public health (20%); 3. Basic principles for Psychosomatic Health Prevention (20%); 4. Somatisation theories – the role of emotional factors in disease origin (20%). II. Skills 20%: 1. Principles for the formation of a patient-client relationship between a public health specialist in the case of different personality structures (20%). The assessment of the exam is cumulative. It consists of: 1. Mid-semester examination – 50%. Mid-semester examination is an independent analysis of video material within the lesson. 2. Final examination 50% – an electronised, e-study accessible or face-to-face multi-answer test on topics discussed within the course. It is possible to count the automatic final test against the following criteria: - mid-semester examination assessment of at least 8 points; - 100% attendance AT classes OR no more than 25% of offences are delayed - there must be justifiable reasons and delayed classes must be resumed; - independent work - a report or presentation on the subject of a lesson at the choice of the teaching staff. |
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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4
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Topics
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Biopsychosocial model in medicine, psychic, social and biological causes of disease (WHO), the concept of alexithymia. Somatization. Psychosomatic disorders and diseases.
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4
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Affect theory. Emotions, affects, their physiological significance, psychophysiological classification. The role of emotions in the process of somatization. Emotional intelligence.
1. Innate emotions
2. The concept of adequate and inadequate expression of emotions
3. The role of emotions from evolutionary perspective
4. Somatic expression of affect – somatization as a form of contemporary communication
5. The significance of emotional intelligence and its manifestation.
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4
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Stress and distress, its various forms. Types of stressors. Bio-psycho-pathological vulnerability model: the influence of early childhood emotional distress on the risk of developing emotional and somatic disorders in adulthood.
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Types of personality structures.
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4
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The concept of psychotherapy. Objectives. Indications. Psychotherapeutic process (assessment phase, initiation phase, working-through phase, termination phase). Techniques of psychotherapy. Types of psychotherapy.
1. Supportive psychotherapy
2. Psychodynamic (psychoanalytic) psychotherapy
3. Cognitive behavioural psychotherapy
4. Individual, couple, family, group psychotherapy
5. Child and adolescent psychotherapy.
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The relationship between the health worker and the role of the patient in public health.
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Family: concept, structure, function. Family functioning – stories, assumptions, boundaries, rules, endurance. Family dynamics with mentally/physically ill family members. Functional family - main features. Dysfunctional family: key features, diversity.
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Individual lesson exam, closing issues, presentation of clinical cases/reports.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
32 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Women at higher risk for inflation-related stress, 24.05.2023
2.
Long- term impact of childhood trauma explained, 2.05.2023
3.
Medical-level empathy? Yup, chatGPT can fake that, 4.05.2023
4.
Anger in adults a red flag for childhood trauma, 5.04.2023
5.
Melatonin a new way to reduce self-harm, 27.03.2023
6.
Epigenetics, satiety, and predictive markers of obesity, 27.02.2023
7.
Beyond the psychedelic effect: ayahuasca as antidepressant, 10.02.2023
8.
Emotional eating tied to risk for diastolic dysfunction, 19.01.2023
9.
Vegetarians suffer more depression than meat eaters, 27.12.2022
10.
Greater Handgrip Strength tied to lower risk for depression, 20.12.2022
11.
German survey on assisted suicide: how to handle this? Where should caution be exercised?, 16.09.2022
12.
Social isolation, Loneliness tied to death, MI, stroke: AHA, 4.08.2022
13.
Physicians react: burnout rates are alarming, so who should drive change? 6.06.2022
14.
K. Abrahamsson. R. Ennals. Sustainable work in Europe. Concepts, Conditions, Challenges. 2022 Edited Collection. 342 Pages
15.
Empathy fatigue in clinicians rises with latest COVID-19 surge, 16.09.2021
16.
Why men need mind-body medicine now more than ever, 2.04.2020
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
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Why do depressed doctors suffer in silence? – 27.06.2017
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Stress and depression mediated by single brain protein, 20.11.2014
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How the brain responds to trauma, 24.09.2014
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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.
Utināns. Cilvēka psihe Tās darbība, funkcionēšanas traucējumi un ārstēšanas iespējas. Nacionālais apgāds. 2005., 568 lpp. (akceptējams izdevums)
25.
Implementing the care programme approach in psychotherapeutics settings, 2004 (akceptējams izdevums)
26.
Gunta Ancāne. Hronisku sāpju stāvokļu psihosomatiska izpratne//Latvijas Ārsts.- 2004., Nr1.- 40- 43 (akceptējams izdevums)
27.
Post-traumatic stress disorder: symptom profiles in men and women, 2003 (akceptējams izdevums)
28.
Physical symptoms and physician-experienced difficulty in the physician –patient relationship, 1.05.2001
Additional Reading
1.
G.Ancane, D.Smite. Die Bedeutung emotionaler Belastung für das Schmerz- syndrom bei Patienten mit chronischem Kreuzschmerz. Ärztliche Psychotherapie 1/2011., 49.-54
2.
Gunta Ancāne. Ķermeņa un psihes saistība//Psiholoģijas Pasaule.-2004.,-Nr.1-38.-43.lpp