IRO Egas Moniz - Psychology

Psychology

Maria Do Rosário De Fátima Martins Dias

To address the intervention contexts involving health promotion and primary prevention of eating disorders.
To reflect on the bio-psycho-social determinants of health behaviors.
To develop the applicability of theoretical and practical communication skills of nutritionists when applied to their everyday practices.
To encourage the creation of healthy eating education projects and to stimulate the interest in researching in the field of health psychology.
To promote the construction of assessment, clinical and playful-pedagogical tools to be applied in the context of everyday practices.

FOUNDATIONS OF EATING BEHAVIOUR
Introduction to Eating Disorders.
Eating behaviors, Development and Life Cycle.
THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
The Problem of Communication.
Theoretical foundations of communication.
Constraints and failures of the communication process.
THE SETTING FOR CONSULTATION / PATIENT COUNSELING
The context of the communication behavior.
Assertiveness Strategies in attending patients.
The Consultation: The muted patient.
Consultation: the revisited setting.
THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN HEALTH CONTEXTS
Communication skills of health professionals.
Constraints and failures in the communication process.
Information provided in Health Contexts.
RELATIONSHIP NUTRITIONIST - PATIENT
Relationship Nutritionist – Patient.
Strategies to promote health.
Information provided in Health Contexts.
Psychosocial Representation of the Patient.

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Carmo I (2001) Doenças do Comportamento Alimentar, ISPA, Lisboa. ISBN 972-8400-28-04
Coucello T (1997) A Educação Alimentar: Práticas e discursos dos médicos de clínica geral, Educa, Lisboa. ISBN: 972-8036-18-3
Dias MR (2005) A Esmeralda perdida: A informação prestada ao doente oncológico, Climepsi, Lisboa. ISBN: 972-796-178-9
Watzlawick P, Beavin JH & Jackson DD (2011) Pragmática da Comunicação Humana, 18th ed., Cultrix, S. Paulo. ISBN: 978-85-316-0314-3