Learning Results
The student must acquire:
knowledge:
• Communication, interpersonal relations
• Behaviours and work
• Behaviour, health and disease
• Psychosocial changes associated with the disease
skills:
• Adopt strategies of non-verbal and verbal communication and interaction with patients, other professionals and
the public
• Identify problems in the professional activity
• Understand basic psychosocial aspects related to health promotion, prevention and overcoming of illness and
treatment adherence
• Analyse and interpret the relations: behaviour, emotions and health state
• Interact with the patient and caregivers
Competences:
• Communicate and interact appropriately in different professional contexts
• Dealing with problematic situations in the professional activity
• Reflect on the disease in psychosocial terms
• Be an active agent in promoting health behaviours
• Identify and deal with your emotions and stress
• Deal appropriately with the patient and his family
Curricular Unit Teachers
Margarida Tenente dos Santos PocinhoInternship(s)
NAO
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