2024
Communication in Health
Name: Communication in Health
Code: PSI13784I
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Psychology
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
This UC intends that students understand the health communication processes and develop communication skills inherent in a client-centered pharmaceutical practice.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
1. To understand the communication processes
2. To understand the place of communication in health.
3. To develop communication skills to develop a client-centered pharmaceutical practice.
4. To understand yourself as a subject of communicative practice, developing skills of self-reflection and of analysis on how you are in the relationship with the other.
5. To contribute to the awareness of ethical issues inherent to communication.
2. To understand the place of communication in health.
3. To develop communication skills to develop a client-centered pharmaceutical practice.
4. To understand yourself as a subject of communicative practice, developing skills of self-reflection and of analysis on how you are in the relationship with the other.
5. To contribute to the awareness of ethical issues inherent to communication.
Contents
Communication:
The pragmatics of communication. "Behavior is communication, or the impossibility of not communicating"; Communication process; Relationship as the subject of communicative practice
Communication in health:
The importance of health communication; Purposes and contexts of health communication; Health information; Changing and promoting healthy behaviors; Risk communication and adherence to preventive behaviors; The relationship of health technicians with users and adherence to health care
Communication in pharmaceutical practice:
The place of communication in a client-centered pharmaceutical practice; The interpersonal communication skills inherent to the pharmaceutical practice in its different dimensions; Communication with specific groups (the elderly; chronic patients and patients with severe pathologies; patients with specific needs); Competencies inherent in interprofessional communication; The person of the pharmacist and his way of being and communicating.
The pragmatics of communication. "Behavior is communication, or the impossibility of not communicating"; Communication process; Relationship as the subject of communicative practice
Communication in health:
The importance of health communication; Purposes and contexts of health communication; Health information; Changing and promoting healthy behaviors; Risk communication and adherence to preventive behaviors; The relationship of health technicians with users and adherence to health care
Communication in pharmaceutical practice:
The place of communication in a client-centered pharmaceutical practice; The interpersonal communication skills inherent to the pharmaceutical practice in its different dimensions; Communication with specific groups (the elderly; chronic patients and patients with severe pathologies; patients with specific needs); Competencies inherent in interprofessional communication; The person of the pharmacist and his way of being and communicating.
Teaching Methods
We intend to use active methodologies: to build knowledge and to develop interpersonal/interprofessional communication skills for the future pharmacist.
Classes will be organized: carrying out fieldwork focused on the observation of communication situations; carrying out research work on the dimensions of the communication in health; carrying out activities to develop communication skills; moments of reflection about the developed activities
Classes will be organized: carrying out fieldwork focused on the observation of communication situations; carrying out research work on the dimensions of the communication in health; carrying out activities to develop communication skills; moments of reflection about the developed activities
Assessment
Continuous assessment is done through all activities carried out throughout the semester, with emphasis on the realization of:
- research and reflection work about an aspect of health communication (in groups) and to be discussed in (50%)
- role-play exercise of a situation of communication and a written reflection about it (50%)
In the final evaluation it is necessary to:
- carry out a role-play and make a written reflection on it (50%)
- realization of an individual work on a topic within the scope of the CU, indicated by the teacher (50%).
- research and reflection work about an aspect of health communication (in groups) and to be discussed in (50%)
- role-play exercise of a situation of communication and a written reflection about it (50%)
In the final evaluation it is necessary to:
- carry out a role-play and make a written reflection on it (50%)
- realization of an individual work on a topic within the scope of the CU, indicated by the teacher (50%).
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
- Constança Maria Sacadura Biscaia da Silva Pinto [responsible]
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