Psychology

An inquiring and interactive methodology will be used prior to the presentation of the main contents and concepts, anddemonstration / exemplification of them through their practical application in everyday situations and, whenever justified, usingaudiovisual media.
In the theoretical-practical component of the discipline, the class should be divided into groups, in order to allow theperformance of role-play and other methodologies of greater proximity to the student. These activities require a small number ofstudents.
Students will be evaluated on the theoretical and theoretical-practical components on a continuous basis and throughout awritten test, knowledge assessment, summative, consisting of questions that assess the extent and depth of theoreticalknowledge acquired in the discipline and the ability to apply this knowledge in practice to everyday and specific situations inthe scientific area of the course.

The student must acquire knowledge of:
• Communication, interpersonal relationships and team work;
• Behaviors, health and illness;
• Psycho-oncology.
The student must develop skills to:
• Adopt appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication strategies with patients, other professionals and the general public;
• Understand the basic psychosocial aspects related to health promotion, prevention and overcoming disease, understandingand adherence to treatment and rehabilitation;
• Analyze and interpret the relationships between behavior, emotions and health status.
The student must acquire skills to:
• Communicate and appropriately interact, in different professional contexts;
• Be an active agent in promoting health behaviors;
• Identify and deal with their emotions and stress, being an active agent in the promotion of health and the well-being ofpatients.
• Deal properly with the patient and his family, especially in situations of cancer disease.

Health Communication Skills:
• Theoretical models of communication
• Verbal and non-verbal communication;
• Communication skills to develop in the relationship with the patient and in the health team.
Interpersonal Relationship and Teamwork
• Interpersonal relationships and multidisciplinarity in health
• Variables that influence teamwork (conflicts, motivation and leadership)
• Professional stress and burnout.
Behavior, Health and Disease
• Health concept holistic perspective;
• Health behaviors and their determinants;
• Stress, coping, health and illness;
• Healthy lifestyles and health promotion;
• Health literacy and health education.
Psycho-oncology
• Psychosocial aspects associated with the psycho-oncological cycle;
• Emotional impact of oncological disease, throughout the life cycle;
• Altered emotional states and prevalence of psychopathology in oncological disease;
• Adaptation to oncological disease: Resilience and Quality of life;
• Communication in oncology specificities.

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