The clinic provides psychological care for hospitalized patients in the standard department, ICU and ARO. This is primarily about care for hospitalized patients, but also for their family members. The psychologist is also available to doctors during consultations with patients or their families, e.g. when communicating the inauspicious prognosis of the disease,
education about the demands of postoperative care, etc. At the same time, he is an intermediary in communication with social workers.dddd
The work of a psychologist at the clinic includes both a diagnostic part (cognition, personality, psychopathology) and mainly a therapeutic part - especially crisis intervention, supportive psychotherapy and longer psychotherapeutic cooperation after discharge from hospital. Psychological care in the inpatient department may include, among other things, relaxation exercises to calm down before planned procedures.
However, a large part of the psychological work lies mainly in the multidisciplinary lung transplant team.
A psychologist performs pre-transplant psychological examinations, where he assesses the patient's personality, affectivity, motivation, assessment of adherence, and maps his social and physical background. At the same time, it provides education on claims in the pre- and post-transplant period. He also works with patients at the entrance on ambivalence in deciding whether to undergo the procedure at all. He also organizes family meetings to map and work with the motivation of the patient's wider social environment. This is both outpatient and hospitalization cooperation. The psychologist also participates in regular indication team meetings, performs control examinations of patients on the waiting list.
He also works with family members of deceased patients and provides guidance through the period of loss and mourning. Last but not least, the psychologist in the department provides support care and consultations to the nursing staff as well.
PhDr. Tereza Maryšková