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1. Treatment of patients from the perspective of biomedical model and
biopsychosocial model of health and disease: implications for therapy and
rehabilitation. The concept of an integrated / holistic treatment.
2. Psychological and social (non-physiological) effects on treatment and
rehabilitation of patients: (I) sociocultural factors, (Ii) cognitive factors
(III) affective factors, (III) personality; (IV) the impact of psychological
factors on sympathetic nervous system and on muscle tension. 3. The implications
of psychological and social factors for therapy and rehabilitation: (i) clinical
(i.e. red flags) and psychosocial markers (yellow flags); (II) psychosocial
markers and musculoskeletal disorders (III) how psychosocial markers influence
the course of the recovery and rehabilitation; (III) the process of
psychological markers identification: observing patients, therapeutic
interviews, utilisation of instruments. 4. Selected behavioural and cognitive
behavioural approaches in therapy and rehabilitation. (I) Background of
behaviour and cognitive behavioural therapy. (II) Implementation of the two
therapeutic approaches to physiotherapy and clinical evidence of their efficacy.
(III) Selected models of behaviour modification and their
application in the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation (especially in the
field of pain management): instrumental conditioning; integrative model; theory
of goal setting. 5. Therapeutic communication as a tool to develop a
holistic approach to patients: (i) the process of establishing trust in
patient-physiotherapist relation (Calgary Cambridge model of clinical
communication). (II) Therapeutic communication in changing patients’ behaviour
and lifestyle (informing; giving instructions and advices,
consulting, supporting patients in changing existing patterns of thoughts and
actions; motivational interview). 6. Modern multidimensional
approaches in the treatment of pain: Classification-based cognitive functional
therapy.