Ricardo Gorayeb has a degree
in Psychology and a Master and a PhD by the
University of São Paulo. He is an associate
professor at the Ribeirão Preto Medical School
at the University of São Paulo (FMRPUSP), and
he works at the FMRPUSP University Hospital.
He is a member of the Editorial Committee of
national and international periodic journals,
and an ‘ad hoc’ consultant of the FAPESP and
of the CNPq. He was a consultant in Geneva in
1995. He completed his post-doctoral training
at the University of Johns Hopkins, the
University of Duke and the University Jaume I.
He has more than 70 articles published in
periodic journals, 2 books, and 14 chapters,
and he has supervised more than 30 Doctoral
and Master theses.
He is the President of the Brazilian
Psychological Association, having been five
times the President of the Psychological
Association of Ribeirão Preto (the
predecessor). He has a wide experience in the
field of Psychology, mainly in Clinical
Psychology, having worked above all in the
following themes: Hospital Psychology, Health
Promotion, Psychological Intervention, Public
Health, and Community Psychology, from the
cognitive and behavioral theoretical
orientation.
CONFERENCE ABSTRACT
Systematic analysis of
clinical cases in health psychology
It will be analyzed the
importance of a systematic analysis, using the
evidence base of the literature, for the
adequate clinical care of patients in the health
area, in a hospital environment. Four clinical
cases will be presented and systematically
analyzed. The first clinical case will describe
the impact and psychological changes presented
by a patient after a kidney transplant, due to
the sensation of having an organ of another
person in his own body, the procedures used by
the psychologist to adjust his behavior and the
final results obtained. In the second case, the
relevance of the religious beliefs of a patient
with breast cancer and metastasis and their
interference in adherence to the treatment will
be described. It will show the therapist's
strategy to use religious influence in a
positive way for treatment. The third case will
describe the inadequate behavior pattern of a
health team in relation to a patient with low
adherence to hemodialysis treatment, as well as
the intervention of the psychologist adjusting
the actions of the team and increasing adherence
to the treatment by the patient. The last case
will show the behavior of family members of a
high risk pregnancy patient, seeking to
interfere in the autonomous decisions to be
taken by her and the intervention of the
psychologist to promote the autonomy of the
patient in relation to her own health,
maintaining the family harmony. In all cases it
will be shown how evidence-based intervention
has helped patients overcome aspects of their
physical illness and improve their quality of
life.
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