Communication and Management of Therapeutic Relationship

Study Course Description

Course Description Statuss:Approved

Course Description Version:4.00

Study Course Accepted:18.08.2022 15:37:38

Study Course Information
Course Code:		LUSDK_230			LQF level:		Level 7
Credit Points:		4.00			ECTS:		6.00
Branch of Science:		Clinical Medicine; Health Care			Target Audience:		Nursing Science
Study Course Supervisor
Course Supervisor:		Liāna Deklava
Study Course Implementer
Structural Unit:		Department of Welfare and Social Work
The Head of Structural Unit:
Contacts:		Riga, 26a Anninmuizas boulevard, socdkrsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061575
Study Course Planning
Full-Time - Semester No.1
Lectures (count)		12	Lecture Length (academic hours)			2	Total Contact Hours of Lectures		24
Classes (count)		12	Class Length (academic hours)			2	Total Contact Hours of Classes		24
Total Contact Hours									48
Study course description
Preliminary Knowledge:
Psycho-social needs, Social psychology, Communication in health care, Transcultural care, Health care philosophy, Psychosomatic medicine, Stress management.
Objective:
To acquire knowledge about the basic principles of building therapeutic relationships, to promote the development of basic skills to use therapeutic communication, realizing individual-centered care.
Topic Layout (Full-Time)
No.	Topic				Type of Implementation		Number	Venue
1	Basic principles of communication in the healthcare environment.				Lectures		2.00	auditorium
2	Communication components in the clinical environment.				Lectures		1.00	auditorium
3	Skills required for successful communication, their development.				Lectures		1.00	auditorium
4	Biomedical and bio-psychosocial models in contact with the patient. Patient orientered communication.				Lectures		2.00	auditorium
5	Nurses – patient relationship therapeutic aspects and components of consultation.				Lectures		2.00	auditorium
6	Transference and countertransference concepts. Patient's needs, understanding and responsiveness to them, trust – building communication.				Lectures		2.00	auditorium
7	Patient personality in communication, patient-centered communication, its conditions.				Lectures		2.00	auditorium
8	Biopsychosocial communication model in nursing practice.				Classes		2.00	auditorium
9	Professional distance, conflicts.				Classes		2.00	auditorium
10	Therapeutic relationships and therapeutic environment. Counseling as a professional activity (objectives, methods and techniques)				Classes		2.00	auditorium
11	Stress in communication, its management types.				Classes		2.00	auditorium
12	Emotional intelligence, emotional support in communication.				Classes		2.00	auditorium
13	Professional nurses' required (desired) personality characteristics and professional relevant behaviour.				Classes		2.00	auditorium
Assessment
Unaided Work:
Patient cases descriptive analysis, one cases communication and therapeutic relationship plan development and preparation of one study analysis.
Assessment Criteria:
Students prepare and present communication model for one clinical care situation, independently analyze the patient's needs and develop a therapeutic relationship plan (for one situation), prepare and presents an overview of the research carried out in relation to communication in health care. The course is considered mastered if the student has participated in the lectures and learned the teaching material of the lessons -10%, has completed the learning tasks during the lessons - 20% (the completed tasks have been counted), has obtained positive intermediate evaluations (research selection, analysis and presentation - 30%; Analysis and presentation of the clinical situation - 40%).
Final Examination (Full-Time):		Exam
Final Examination (Part-Time):
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge:		As a result of learning the study course, students are able to demonstrate knowledge of the basic principles of successful communication, the use of the conditions of the biopsychosocial model in contact with patients, the conditions for creating a therapeutic relationship and a therapeutic environment.
Skills:		As a result of learning the study course, students are able to explain the patient's needs in communication, analyze and evaluate stress-related situations in patient care and develop an appropriate patient-centered relationship model.
Competencies:		As a result of learning the study course, students are able to combine theory and methods, analyzing the patient as a personality, assessing his needs in communication and generating the conditions for managing a therapeutic relationship.
Bibliography
No.	Reference
Required Reading
1	K.Mārtinsone un autoru kolektīvs. Konsultēšanas un psihoterapijas teorija un prakse. Zvaigzne ABC, 2016.
2	Reņģe V. Psiholoģija. Savstarpējo attiecību psiholoģija. Zvaigzne ABC, 2004. (akceptējams izdevums)
3	Kulbergs J. Dinamiskā psihiatrija. Jumava, 2001. (akceptējams izdevums)
4	K.Mārtinsones un V.Sudrabas redakcijā. Veselības psiholoģija. RSU, 2016.
5	G.Deksters. Rokasgrāmata psihiatrijas māsām. Jumava, 2006. (akceptējams izdevums)
6	Barry Winbolt. Solution Focused Therapy for the Helping Professions. Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and Philadelphia, 2011.
7	Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students:
8	Barry Winbolt. Solution Focused Therapy for the Helping Professions. Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and Philadelphia, 2011.
Additional Reading
1	Brummers M., Enekells H. Bērnu un jauniešu psihoterapija. Jumava, 2011.
2	Reņģe V. Sociālā psiholoģija. Zvaigzne ABC, 2002.
3	Keismensts P. Psihoterapeits un viņa pacients. Raka, 2003.
4	Silverman J., Kurtz S., Draper J. Skills for Communicating with Patients. 2nd edition, CRS Press, London, 2011.
5	Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students:
6	Silverman J., Kurtz S., Draper J. Skills for Communicating with Patients. 2nd edition, CRS Press, London, 2011.
Other Information Sources
1	www.psihosomatika.lv
2	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?dopt=DocSum&cmd=Search&t…
3	Ārvalstu studentiem/For international students:
4	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?dopt=DocSum&cmd=Search&t…