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Course: Biopsychosocial Approach to Health Issues

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Course title Biopsychosocial Approach to Health Issues
Course code ISZ/KSBIO
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kaščáková Natália, MUDr. PhD.
Course content
- Biopsychosocial approach in medicine and problems of the narrowing to biomedicine - Comprehensive assessment of the degree of the disability in psychiatric and psychosomatic diseases according to the WHO - Attachment and psychological traumatization across the life span (connections with risk and etiopathogenetic factor, with resilience, disease processing, disease behaviour, treatment cooperation, prevention options) - Defense mechanisms in connection to the biopsychosocial approach - Life events and psychosocial stressors involved in the pathogenesis or affecting the course of psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders - Resilience and possibilities of its increase

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
- getting acquainted with the biopsychosocial model and conceptualization of the case as a comprehensive approach to diagnosis - design of therapy for the client with psychosomatic problems - to acquaint the degree of disability in specific areas of functioning in psychiatric and psychosomatic patients according to the WHO DS Disablement scale - introduction with attachment theory and possible impact of psychic traumatization on forming bonds to close persons - to acquaint participants with the theory of defense mechanisms and how to integrate these knowledges into work with psychiatric / psychosomatic patients - acquaintance with life events that may be involved in pathogenesis or may affect the course of psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders - to get acquainted with the concept of resilience as an important defensive factor protecting against the emerging and worsening of mental and psychosomatic disorders and the possibilities how to increase it.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • ICD 11.
  • APA, DSM-5. (2015). Diagnostický a statistický manuál duševních poruch.. Praha: Testcentrum Hogrefe.
  • APA. (2018). Príručka k diagnostickým kritériám DSM-5. Bratislava:Vydavateľstvo F.
  • CAMPBELL, W. & ROHRBAUGH, R.M. (2006). Biopsychosociálny prístup ? manuál. Vydavateľtsvo F.
  • FREUD, A. (2010). Já a obranné mechanizmy. Portál.
  • HAŠTO, J. (2005). Vzťahová väzba. Ku koreňom lásky a úzkosti.. Trenčín: Vydavateľstvo F.
  • KAŠČÁKOVÁ, N. (2016). Obranné mechanizmy z psychoanalytického, etologického a avolučno-biologického pohľadu. Trenčín: Vydavateľstvo F.
  • RUDOLF, G. & HENINGSEN, P. (2018). Psychoterapeutická medicína a psychosomatika. Úvodná učebnica na psychodynamickom základe.. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo F.
  • SMOLÍK, P. (2001). Duševní a behaviorální poruchy.. Praha: Maxdorf.
  • ŠOLCOVÁ, I. (2009). Vývoj resilience v dětstve a dospělosti. Grada.
  • TRAPKOVÁ, L., & CHVÁLA, V. (2007). Rodinná psychoterapie psychosomatických poruch.. Praha: Portál.
  • UVNÄS-MOBERG, K. Hormón blízkosti. Rola oxytocínu vo vzťahoch.. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo F.
  • WERNER, E. E., & SMITH, R. S. (2001). Jorneys from childhood to midlife. Risk, Resilience and Recovery. U.S.A.: Cornell University Press.


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Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 27.10.2025 23:57. Data created for academic year 2025/2026