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Transformation of Mental Health Care - APS300450
Title: Transformace péče o duševní zdraví
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2023 to 2023
Semester: winter
Points: 3
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, C [HT]
Capacity: 25 / unknown (25)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (14.08.2023)
The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of community mental health care that will
enable them to understand the current process of transformation of mental health care with an emphasis on the
historical and international development of care for people with mental illness. Examples and applications will
include those with serious long-term mental illness and seniors with cognitive impairment.
Aim of the course -
Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (14.08.2023)
Course Objective:
To learn about the current transformation of care for people with serious mental illness.

Knowledge and Skills Acquired:

Knowledge: overview of the background to the transformation of psychiatric care, orientation to terminology, knowledge of the principles and basic forms of community care. The student understands the current challenges of transforming mental health care in a broader international and political-historical context.

Skills: can apply the principles of community care to examples, recognise the pitfalls of deinstitutionalisation in the care of people with mental illness/elderly people with cognitive impairment and propose solutions.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (14.08.2023)

Portfolio of tasks + presentation

Literature -
Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (14.08.2023)

Barbato, A. (2006). Psychosocial rehabilitation and severe mental disorders: a public health approach. World psychiatry, 5:3, p. 162─163.

Dragomirecká, E., Bražinová, A., Pálová, E., Baudiš, P. & Šelepová P. (2008). The history of mental health care in Czechoslovakia. In Scheffler, R.M. & Potůček, M. (eds). Mental health care reform in the Czech and Slovak Republics, 1989 to the present. Praha: Karolinum, pp. 21─38.

Dragomirecká E, van Weeghel J, Peč O. Psychiatric rehabilitation and continuity of care. In Hudson CHH (ed). Research Handbook of Mental Health Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing 2022, s. 173-189.

Drake, R.E., Green, A.I., Mueser, K.T. & Goldman, H.H. (2003). The History of Community Mental Health Treatment and Rehabilitation for Persons with Severe Mental Illness. Community Mental Health Journal, 39(5), 427─440.

Pěč, O. (2019). Mental health reform in the Czech Republic. BJPsych International, 16(1), 4─6.

Rössler, W.& Drake, R.E. (2018). Psychiatric Rehabilitation in Europe. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 26, 216-222.

World Health Organization. Promoting mental health: concepts, emerging evidence, practice (Summary Report). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2004.

Syllabus -
Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (14.08.2023)

Course content:

Changes in psychiatric care after World War II and its foundations (historical, value, medical, research); biopsychosocial model and resulting criteria for successful care, brief history of psychiatric care in Western countries and the Czech Republic

Basic concepts: community care and deinstitutionalization vs institutional care, psychiatric/psychosocial rehabilitation vs treatment.

Arguments for and against deinstitutionalization. Barriers and problems in the process of deinstitutionalisation. Public attitudes.

Multidisciplinarity, person-centred care (case management) and recovery. Goals and evaluation of the success of community care.

The current transformation of psychiatric care and the implementation of its principles in practice: equality in rights and dignity, self-determination and cooperation, safety, involvement, comprehensiveness. Psychiatric reform in the Czech Republic; Mental health centres.

Rehabilitation programs and interventions, peer programs.

Specifics of the transformation of care for the elderly.

Entry requirements -
Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (14.08.2023)

Basics of clinical psychology

 
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