Behavioural Medicine

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

Strong evidences support that health condition, illness and life expectancies are determined by the individual's life style and behaviour. Patients' illness behaviour and coping abilities have an impact on the outcome of illness and rehabilitation. This course introduces into the processes of health behaviour and behaviour changing focusing on the therapeutic aspects of chronic diseases and specific clinical fields.

Lectures

Practices

Seminars

• 1. Health models, disease models. - Birkás Béla
• 2. Interactions between behaviour and health/disease. - Birkás Béla
• 3. Disease and disease behaviour as adaptation - Birkás Béla
• 4. Darwinian behavioural medicine - Birkás Béla
• 5. Social influences determining behaviour - Birkás Béla
• 6. Interpersonal behaviour and health - Birkás Béla
• 7. Recognition of psychological states by machine learning  - Matuz András
• 8. Recognition of psychological states by machine learning  - Matuz András
• 9. Behavioural medicine in understanding and treating the development of addictions. - Darnai Gergely
• 10. Neurocognitive processes, brain activity and addictions. - Darnai Gergely
• 11. Cognitive models, cognitive techniques in behavioural medicine. - Darnai Gergely
• 12. Behavioural therapy techniques in general practice, behaviour modification. - Darnai Gergely
• 13. Pain, psychological approaches to pain management - Psychological aspects of chronic and acute pain. - Gács Boróka
• 14. The relationship between trauma and pain experience. Non-invasive pain relief methods (ACT, imagination). - Gács Boróka
• 15. The role of suggestive communication in the healing process - Gács Boróka
• 16. Basic rules and methods of suggestion and characteristics of altered states of consciousness - Gács Boróka
• 17. Relaxation in medical practice  - Hartung István
• 18. Hypnosis in medical practice  - Hartung István
• 19. Psychological factors associated with reproductive disorders, changes in quality of life - Gács Boróka
• 20. Bio-psycho-social understanding of infertility. - Gács Boróka
• 21. Psychological factors affecting medication adherence - Tiringer István
• 22. Psychological factors affecting medication adherence - Tiringer István
• 23. Summary - Birkás Béla
• 24. Evaluation - Birkás Béla

Reading material

Obligatory literature

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Literature developed by the Department

Handouts, publications, additional materials, presentations. Materials are available on Neptun.

Notes

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Recommended literature

Feldman, M. D., Christensen, J.F. (eds.): Behavioral Medicine: A Guide for Clinical Practice, Fourth Edition, McGrow - Hill, 2014.

Csabai, M., Molnar, P.: Health, Illness and Care. A Textbook of Medical Psychology, Springer Orvosi Kiadó, Budapest, 2000.

Kaptein, A., Weinman, J. (eds.): Health Psychology, BPS Blackwell Publishing, 2004.

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

According to Code of Studies and Examinations. The topics of the course will be prepared by students holding a live demonstration with a PowerPoint presentation.

Mid-term exams

Presentation of a topic + written final test.

Making up for missed classes

Additional homework or presentation.

Exam topics/questions

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Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Birkás Béla
• Darnai Gergely
• Gács Boróka
• Hartung István
• Matuz András
• Tiringer István