Dentistry

Communication in Health1

Comunicação na Saúde

Course code:9548308

Maria do Rosário de Fátima Martins Dias

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
  • Develop the applicability of theoretical and practical communication competences of Dentists when applied to their quotidian practices.
  • Promote the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes and professional behaviours of students that facilitate an effective interaction with patients, relatives, colleagues and other health professionals.
  • Promote the contact with typical situations and with medical practice in a virtual office, in order to enable the student to face communication barriers that appear in contact with the patient.
  • Planning and executing, with efficiency, an anamnesis interview to a patient that aims to integrate information from de disease path, in the Sick Person's history life.
Syllabus:
  1. Theoretical fundamentals of interpersonal communication.
  2. The setting for consultation/patient treatment.
  3. The information provided in Health Contexts.
  4. Relationship dentist-patient / Strategies of desensitization of fear and anxiety.
Suggested Bibliography:
  • Dias MR (1993) Uma Óptica para a Comunicação, Divulgação, 28, Out, 37-40.
  • Dias MR (1993) Médico - Doente: A Pedagogia na Relação. In : Leandro S. Almeida & Iolanda Ribeiro (Eds.) A Organização dos Serviços de Psicologia em Portugal, Açores: APPORT.
  • Dias MR & Amorim A (Eds) (2000) Clinica Dentária Integrada: Contributos Bio-Psico-Sociais. Caparica: Egas Moniz Publicações.
  • Durá E & Dias MR (1997) Relação Médico - Doente em Psicologia Oncológica: Aspectos Éticos, Sociais e Legais. Psicologia: Teoria, Investigação e Prática, 2, 2, 197-208.