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BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES (PSYCHOLOGY & ETHICS): Course outline

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to increase awareness of psychosocial issues faced by individuals and their significant reference groups at various points on the continuum of health and disability. Personal and professional attitudes and values are discussed as they relate to developing therapeutic relationships. Communication skills are emphasized for effective interaction with clients, health-care professionals and others.

Course outline

  • Explain psychological and ethical factors that influence values about health promotion, wellness, illness and disability
  • Demonstrate Skills to effective physical therapist-client relationship for better health care outcomes.

COURSE CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

  • Define Behavioral Sciences
  • Discuss its importance in health
  • Discuss Bio-Psycho-Social Model of Healthcare
  • BEHAVIOR OF INDIVIDUAL
  • Nature/nurture debate
  • Behaviorism and learning theories
  • Behavioral modifications
  • COGNITION
  • cognition
  • cognitive development throughout lifespan

SCIENCE OF RELATIONSHIP

  • Define and discuss communication skills, its types, modes, barriers and factors affecting
  • Discuss Counseling: steps, scope, indication and contraindications in health setting
  • Discuss conflict management: Dealing with real life crisis and conflict situations in health settings
  • Discuss interviewing and its psychosocial factors in health care.
  • Define clinician-patient / client relationship
  • Discuss Concept of boundaries and psychological reactions in clinician patient relationship such as transference and counter transference.
  • Discuss Problem solving and decision making strategies in health care

  • Define and classify of stress
  • Discuss effects of stress on health and coping strategies
  • Discuss Relationship of stress and stressors with illness
  • Define Anxiety
  • Discuss Psychological defense mechanisms, Adjustment and maladjustment

APPLICATION OF BEHAVIORAL PRINCIPLES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE

  • Importance of psychological consideration in physical therapy management of
  • Mentally, emotionally and physically compromised patients
  •  Terminally ill and home bound patients

ETHICS

  • Define ethics, medical ethics, and values, value system, virtues, mores, moral rules and morality
  • Discuss ethical theories
  • Discuss principle based approach for physical therapist in ethics such as;
  • Non-maleficence, beneficence, autonomy, fidelity, veracity, paternalism, and Justice.
  • Discuss code of ethics for physical therapist
  • Discuss ethical dimension of the physical therapist patient relationship, confidentiality, information sharing, and informed consent and ethical dilemmas