Division of Health Humanities and Social Science

Didactic classes:

1. Bioethics
2. Demography
3. Medical didactics
4. Business Ethics
5. Philosophy
6. Philosophy and Bioethics
7. Social Research Methods
8. Scientific Research Methodology
9. Teaching Methodology in Higher Education
10. Education
11. Special Needs Education
12. Fundamentals of Demography
13. Fundamentals of Ethics and Deontology
14. Fundamentals of Education
15. Fundamentals of Social Work
16. Fundamentals of Health Promotion
17. Fundamentals of Psychology
18. Fundamentals of Health Psychology
19. Fundamentals of Psychopathology
20. Fundamentals of Sociology
21. Propedeutics of Medicine
22. Psychology
23. Clinical Psychology and Clinical Communication
24. General Psychology and Psychotherapy
25. Social Psychology
26. Psychology of Management
27. Health Psychology
28. Psychotherapy
29. Sociology
30. Sociology of Medicine
31. General Sociology and Disabilities
32. Sociology of Family
33. Social and Social-Welfare Functions of the State
34. Elective course: Education in the Prevention of Risky Diseases
35. Elective course: Psychology of Changes in Health Behaviours
36. Elective course: Mental Prevention of Occupational Stress

Main research topics

The research area within which the specific directions of the research carried out in the Division of Medical Humanities and Social Science are undertaken includes the problems of hospital and non-hospital medical care as well as the psychosocial determinants of health behaviour and situations of illness. The research carried out in the Division is interdisciplinary, i.e. it takes into account the medical, psychological and sociological aspects of a given problem.
 
Research projects that employees of the Division are currently working on.

1. Health as a value in post-modern societies (Monika Wójta-Kempa, PhD)
2. Psychology of mindfulness – Mindfulness – in health care (Mirosław Chybicki, MA)
3. Mental health of children and adolescents. Behavioural disorders (Agnieszka Lintowska, PhD)
4. Quality of life and communication with the patient (Magdalena Kazimierska-Zając, PhD)
5. Beliefs and knowledge about cancer and participation in oncological preventive examinations (Małgorzata Synowiec-Piłat, PhD).
6. Selected aspects of medical education and interdisciplinary patient care and health promotion (Grażyna Szymańska-Pomorska, PhD)

The employees of the Division of Medical Humanities and Social Science edit the quarterly Nursing and Public Health (in Polish: Pielęgniarstwo i Zdrowie Publiczne).