Family Systems Medicine - FG50025

• Title: Family Systems Medicine
• Guaranteed by: Department of Preventive Medicine (15-220)
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové
• Actual: from 2023 to 2023
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 1
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/15, C [HT]
• Capacity: 15
• Min. number of students: 5
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. MUDr. David Skorunka, Ph.D.
• Comes under: General medicine - ELECTIVE subjects
• Pre-requisite : {General Medicine 2nd year}
• Incompatibility : FA0105112

Annotation

Last update: doc. MUDr. David Skorunka, Ph.D. (14.09.2023)

The course introduces systemic perspective and family-centred care in medicine. The course reviews the basic assumptions and principles of systemic perspective in medicine and brings the patient´s family in focus. It gives particular emphasis on medical family therapy, collaborative practice and integrated care in chronic illness including mental disorder and disability.

Entry requirements

Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (18.09.2023)

To enrol in this elective course, students must have finished the 2nd year of their undergraduate study. 

Aim of the course

Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (18.09.2023)

The course aims at broadening the students´perspective towards the patient´s family. It is designed to introduce: a) the basic principles of systemic perspective and family-centred care in medicine; b) collaborative, family-centred practices including family therapy; c) complex representation and basic skills necessary for treatment/care of patients and their families, who struggle with chronic illness and disablity.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (18.09.2023)

Credit:

Attendance 80%, Activity during seminars, Core texts reading, PPT Presentation or Essay writing.

Syllabus

Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (18.09.2023)

Practical courses & seminars

Lecturers

• David Skorunka, M.D., Ph.D.

Seminars

1. Why collaborative family health care? Family as a partner in medical encounter. Family and health behavior. Family as social support and enhancement of health potential in family. Training in family-focused approaches for physicians and other medical professionals.
2. Family attachments and health.
3. Systemic concepts and interventions. What harms and what helps; non-blaming approach. Integrating systemic ideas ideas in clinical practice. Specific indications for evidence-based family therapy in medicine I.
4. Family therapy; an overview. Three collumn model. Levels of evidence for the models and mechanisms of therapeutic change in family therapy. Specific indications for evidence-based family therapy in medicine II.
5. When a family member has a mental illness. Psychoeducational and psychosocial programs in mental health. From family to community and wider social networks; international experience.

Literature

Last update: Bc. Iva Malířová (18.09.2023)

Recommend literature

1. Rolland, J. (2018) Helping Couples and Families Navigate Illness and Disability; An Integrated approach. New York: Guilford.
2. McDaniel, S., Doherty, W., Hepworth, J. (2014) Medical Family Therapy and Integrated Care. Washington: APA.
3. Dallos, R., Vetere, A. (2020) Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives. Hove: Routledge.
4. Asen, E., Tomson, D., Young, V., Tomson, P. (2001) Ten Minutes for the Family; Systemic Interventions in Primary Care. Hove: Routledge.
5. Seikkula, J., Arnkill, T.E. (2006) Dialogical Meetings in Social Network. London: Karnac
6. Carr, A. (2010) Family Therapy; Concepts, process and practice. New York: Wiley&Sons.