医学心理学是近代从心理学中发展起来的一个分支，是心理学在医学领域的应用，旨在研究人体健康与疾病相互转化过程中心理因素的作用规律。医学心理学既是医学基础课程，也是临床应用课程。本课程的教学包括两部分内容：心理学基础和临床应用，侧重点在临床应用方面。心理学基础中教授的内容包括动机和挫折、心理防卫机制、认知过程、情感过程、心理的生物学基础。临床应用方面的教学内容包括：1.临床心理评估：包括心理测验和精神科评定量表　　　2. 临床病理心理① 心理生理障碍；② 性心理与性功能障碍；③ 成瘾行为问题；④ 异常心理学；⑤ 人格障碍；⑥ 应激及应激相关障碍； ⑦ 自杀与危机干预3. 综合性医院常见心理问题：包括病人角色及医务人员的心理素养4. 心理干预：　 ① 医患关系及医患沟通技术；　 ② 临床应用的主要心理治疗方法，包括精神分析治疗、认知行为治疗、人本主义心理治疗、家庭治疗和团体治疗　 ③ 心理咨询本课程所要达到的目的是：使学生了解医学心理学的研究内容、主要的心理干预技术，在医学临床实践中能够应用医学心理学的知识来增进对病人的理解、改善医患沟通以更好地帮助病人。

Medical psychology, a scientific branch of psychology, is the application of psychology in medicine. Its object is to study the effect and rule of psychological factor in the transformation of health and disease in human beings. Medical psychology is a basic medical course, at the same time also a clinical application course. This course includes two parts: psychological basis and clinical application, while the latter would be the strong point.In the part of psychological basis we would introduce motive and frustration, defense mechanism, the cognitive process, emotional process and the biological basis of the mind. The following would be introduced in the part of clinical application:1.Clinical psychological assessment, which includes psychological test and psychiatric rating scale.2.Clinical pathological psychology:① Physiological disorder related to psychological factor;② Sexual psychology and sexual function disorder;③ Addictive behaviors;④ Abnormal psychology;⑤ Personality disorder;⑥ Stress and stress-related disorder; ⑦ Suicide and crisis intervention3. The common psychological problem in general hospital, including the role of patients and the psychological culture of medical doctors;4.Psychological intervention:① Doctor-patient relationship and the communication technique; ② The main psychotherapeutic methods in clinic, including psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavior psychotherapy, human-oriented psychotherapy, family psychotherapy and group psychotherapy ③ Psychocounselling The object of this course is to help the students understand the research field of medical psychology and the main psychological intervention technique. With the knowledge of medical psychology, the students could increase their understanding of their patients and improve the communication with the patients, so as to help the patients better.