International Medical Spiritist Association

The course will beginning in March, 19 2010, with coordination of Dr. Gilson Luis Roberto.

Day and time of classes: on Fridays from 6pm to 10pm and on Saturdays from 8am to 12am and 1pm to 5pm.

At Faculdade Monteiro Lobato - Rua dos Andradas, 1180 - Centro, Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil.

Teachers (in alphabetical order)
01) Anahy Fonseca y Colaboradores - Especialista
02) Carlos Eduardo Accioly Durga - Especialista
03) César Geremia - Master
04) Décio Iandoli Jr. - Doctor
05) Gelson Luis Roberto - Master
06) Gilson Luis Roberto - Especialista
07) Irvenia Luiza de Santis Prada - Doctor
08) Marlene Nobre - Especialista
09) Paulo Rogério de Aguiar Dalla Colletta - Especialista
10) Rogerio Severo - Doctor
11) Sérgio Lopes - Especialista
12) Tatiana Tourinho - Doctor

Disciplines
1 - Health and Spirituality - Theoretical and Practical Aspects - 40h - Marlene Nobre and Gilson Luis Roberto
2 - Introduction to the Philosophy of Science – 24h - Rogerio Severo
3 - Empirical evidence of the survival of consciousness after the death of the body – 24h - Rogerio Severo
4 - Research Methodology in Spirituality and Health - 36h - Paulo Rogério de Aguiar Dalla Colletta
5 - Psychology and Spirituality - 24h - Gelson Luis Roberto
6 - Psychology and Spirituality II – 24h - Gelson Luis Roberto
7 - The process of individuation: walking between the living and dying – 24h - Gelson Luis Roberto
8 - Study of Consciousness, Reality and Destiny – 24h - César Geremia
9 – Transdimensional Physiology - 36h - Decio Iandoli Jr
10 – Relationship among health professionals and patients – 24h - Tatiane Tourinho
11 - Evolution and Functions of the Brain as an organ of manifestation of the Mind - 36h - Irvenia Luiza de Santis Prada
12 - Spirituality in the Aging Process – 24h - Carlos Eduardo Accioly Durgante
13 - Psychiatry and Spirituality - 36h - Sérgio Lopes
14 - Spiritual Perspectives in Practice – 24h - Anahy Fonseca and Collaborators
TOTAL 400 hours

Objectives

• Develop the concept of multidimensionality and interconnection of Being
• Recognizing spirituality as something inherent in the human psyche and its importance to physical and mental health.
• Reflect on the paradigm shift that arises when adding a spiritual dimension in the approach to the patient.
  Provide a reflection on the intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity in the search for a better quality of life and health.

• Know the meaning of religious and spiritual coping.
• Reframe the importance of religious / spiritual practices in promoting physical and mental health.
• Understand the physiological and biochemical mechanisms involved in belief.
• Identify the main lines of research on health and spirituality.
• Reflect on new therapeutic possibilities with the inclusion of the spiritual dimension in clinical practice.
• Prepare health professionals to talk about religion and spirituality in clinical practice.
• Reflect on the ethical issues involved in the medical approach of spirituality and patients.
• Articulate the key concepts in relation thanatology Health and Spirituality.
• Encouraging the human values that make up the spirituality.
• Emphasize the need for compassion and love as the foundation in patient care.
• Demonstrate the importance of spirituality for the humanization of hospital care.

Audience
Professionals in the field of health and social care
Note: other professionals will be analysed case by case

Contact information
gilsonlr@terra.com.br

Calendar of Meetings
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