1st year
Name of the course: Introduction to research in the field of psychological behavioral sciences
Range of the subject: 4 hours once a month for 2 semesters
Annotation: The methodology of science, basic research strategies including intensive and extensive research strategy and qualitative and quantitative research, the research project and its components (including the possibility of using the Internet), statistical methods in research (including SPSS program), the current state of research in psychology and behavioral sciences, theory and methodology of contemporary psychology, ethics research.
Literature:
Batinic B.: Internet für Psychologen. Göttingen, Bern, Toronto, Seattle, Hogrefe Verlag, 2000.
Grawe K., Donati R., Bernauer F.: Psychotherapie im Wandel. Von der Konfession zur Profession. Göttingen, Bern, Toronto, Seattle, Hogrefe, Verlag für Psychologie, 1994
Jacobi F., Poldrack A. (Hrsg.): Klinisch – Psychologische Forschung. Göttingen, Bern, Toronto, Seattle, Hogrefe, Verlag für Psychologie, 2000
Petermann F.: Einzelfallanalyse, R. Oldenbourgh Verlag, 1996
2nd year
Name of the course: Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Range of the subject: 4 hours once a month for 1 semester
Annotation: Definition of the objects, concepts, personality, motivation ad., The formation of personality development (attachment, the influence of peer groups, etc.), health psychology (including the concept of resistance), the psychology of the patient and those close to him, psychological care, relationships and communication medic - the patient - family, crisis intervention, influencing cognition and emotion psychological means, psychology, pain, death and dying, indications and goals of psychotherapy, effective factors of psychological treatment, forms and means (methods), psychotherapeutic relationship and process, differential and general model of psychotherapy , therapeutic influencing of health disorders by psychological means, in relation to the ethics of medical psychology and psychotherapy.
Literature:
Bob P.: Brain, Mind and Consciousness: Advances in Neuroscience Research, Springer, 2011
Bob P.: Brain and Dissociated Mind, Nova Science Publishers, 2008
Name of the course: Biopsychosocial approaches to health and disease
Range of the subject: 4 hours once a month for 1 semester
Annotation: Specification of basic concepts, psychosomatic and behavioral medicine, psychiatry, counseling, and genome envirom, ontogeny of the human psyche, biopsychosocial aspects of the development of the human psyche in childhood, psychodynamic aspects of mental health and illness, the health burden in modern societies, the impact of life style and psychosocial factors, sexual behavior as a risk factor for ill health, quality of life, health care organizations and their effectiveness, biopsychosocial aspects of sleep and waking, eating, aggression, aging
Literature:
Gelder, M., Andreasen, N., Lopez-Ibor, J., Geddes, J.: New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, Second ed., Oxford University Press, 2009
Möller, H.J., Laux, G., Kapfhammer, H.P.: Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik, Psychotherapie, Springer, 2010
3rd year
Name of the course: Doctoral Seminar
Range of the subject: 4 hours once a month for 2 semesters
Annotation: PhD students will report on the progress, interim and final results of their dissertations.
Literature: based on the orientation of the dissertations
Examples of dissertation topics:
Immunity and acute (chronic) mental workload
Personal characteristics and experience of pain
The emotional state of the patient and psoriasis
Influence of communication on the creation of the relationship between doctor and patient
Patient compliance with treatment and the level of relationship between doctor and patient
Family and chronically ill child
Effect of psychological intervention (eg relaxation) on the immune system
Anxiety disorders and incongruence
Etiopatogenesis somatoform disorders in relation to selfconcept
Evaluation of psychotherapeutic systems (comparison)
Level sebeexplorace patient depending on the exhibited empathy, acceptance and authenticity of the therapist
Eating Disorders
Mental disorders in peri-and postmenopausal
Biopsychosocial factors influencing aggression sexual delinquency