Department of Clinical Psychology

The Department of Clinical Psychology provides psychodiagnostic and psychotherapeutic treatment for adult and pediatric patients. Psychological care is provided by psychologists assigned directly to individual departments and clinics of the University Hospital Nitra, as well as through outpatient services. Psychotherapeutic treatment is conducted as individual, family, and group therapy.

The transport psychology unit performs driver examinations and provides professional counseling for drivers.

Other activities performed for direct payment include: examinations for firearm license applicants and examinations for the needs of the Social Insurance Agency.

The department also provides education and internships for students of the FSVaZ UKF Nitra and pre-attestation training for psychologists and physicians.

Clinical psychological examination Psychotherapy Traffic psychological examination Support group for children and adolescents Play therapy Neuropsychological examination Professional counseling for drivers Contacts Departments Our Team

Clinical psychological examination

Psychodiagnostic examinations

are focused on:

Examination of the patient upon recommendation by the GP or specialist (referral form required)
Examinations for the needs of the social and health insurance company.
Psychological examination for applicants for a firearms license.
Psychological examination for employees of private security services.
You can also book an examination as a self-paying patient. Price list of services

Psychotherapy

For outpatients

Time:Monday 15:00–16:30 (90 min)

Place: common room at the Psychiatric Clinic

Our goal is:

To provide direct follow-up psychotherapeutic care to patients after hospitalization at the Psychiatric Clinic in FN Nitra.
To reduce the length of hospitalization by ensuring intensive psychotherapeutic guidance after completing basic treatment.
Treatment of mental illnesses, neurotic and psychosomatic disorders.
Reduction or elimination of limitations arising from the chronification of mental illnesses, neurotic or psychosomatic disorders.
Prevention of chronification and relapses of neurotic and psychosomatic disorders.
Improving quality of life in patientswith mental illnesses, neurotic and psychosomatic problems, as well as in families with an ill person or child /to provide information through education, help reduce stress and excessive burden on other family members/
Helping people in crisis /family, personal, work, and other/ psychotherapeutic preparation in certain periods of life /pregnancy, crisis, work overload, preparation for a profession/

Traffic psychological examination

Traffic psychology

Based on the amendment to Act No. 8/2009 Coll. and the Decree of the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic No. 9/2009, the following must undergo a psychological examination:

applicants for an extension of drivinglicence for groups and subgroups: C, C1, C1E, CE, D, D1, D1E, DE
holders of a drivinglicence of group and subgroup: C, C1, C1E, CE, D, D1, D1E, DE (every 5 years, after the age of 65 every 2 years)
taxiservice, postalservices, freight forwarding
drivers upon a doctor’s recommendation
driving school instructors
drivers after confiscation of the drivinglicence,
drivers upon withdrawal of the drivinglicence
and drivers upon committing3 serious offencesunder the Act, based on a decision of the competent traffic inspectorate
drivers with the right of priority driving – VRZ(warning sound and public address device, portable beacons)
drivers of motor vehicles with oversized loads and when transporting dangerouscargo – ADR (Accord Dangereux Routier)

We are a workplace authorized to perform examinations of mental fitness for VRZ and ADR!

Examination of peripheral vision using instrumentation with the use of a so-called perimeter!

Booking for an examination via the booking form or by phone number:

037/6545 620

037/6545 787

Support group for children and adolescents

Support therapeutic group for children and adolescents

Given the current unfavorable situation with the increasing number of pediatric psychiatric patients, the Department of Clinical Psychology strives to improve the quality of life of children and adolescents. Through support therapeutic groups, we contribute to improving the quality of life of children after discharge from the child psychiatry ward. In the support group, the child is guided until they smoothly transition to regular individual psychotherapy.

Target group: intended for children and adolescents discharged from the child psychiatry ward.

Age specifics: For children and young people aged 7 to 18.

The children’s group and the adolescents’ group each work separately.

Where: University Hospital Nitra, Department of Clinical Psychology, 1st floor

Duration: temporary, due to the need for regular individual psychotherapeutic guidance in the outpatient clinic of a child psychologist

Dates: at regular intervals once a week

Price:The child’s participation in group meetings is free of charge, covered by the insurance company

Contact:

PhDr. Marcela Lecká, psychologist; 037/6545 817 /call on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 12:00 to 15:00/

Katarína Lüleyová, nurse; 037/6545 787

Benefits of support group therapy:

Support group guidance for children and adolescents makes it possible to better understand oneself through the perspective of others and, with their help, to find the courage for personal change. Group therapy is led by a psychotherapist whose role is to create a supportive and safe environment—an environment of security and trust. They create an environment in which all group members can openly and safely talk about their difficulties. Group therapy enables the child to gain orientation in various stressful situations, explanations of unknown things, and provides help in releasing and easing emotions such as fear, anxiety, sadness, and helplessness. It strengthens hope for recovery. It provides patients with support and acceptance—the feeling that a person is not alone with their difficulties/problems. They can talk about their feelings and understand their thoughts. The group supports experiencing a sense of belonging, enables self-expression, supports increasing self-confidence, and improves interpersonal relationships and communication. It creates space for experimenting with new behavior in relation to others. Children and adolescents learn to share their feelings and problems with each other, and thus face frustration and look for new and functional alternative solutions. Relationships are formed in the group, they support each other, and a group atmosphere is created. Various other techniques can also be incorporated into group therapy, e.g., art therapy, music therapy, psychodrama, psychogymnastics, or social skills training.

Play therapy

Part of the Department of Clinical Psychology is a therapeutic and diagnostic room for children and their parents, which, with its equipment, offers a wide range for psychotherapeutic work with children with various psychological and emotional difficulties.

Play therapy is used mainly in preschool and younger school-age children, when the child is not yet able to talk about their difficulties. The main tool of therapy in this case is play, into which the child projects their experiences, feelings, thoughts, and unmet needs. Children are provided with special toys through which they express what is difficult for them to express in words. To a significant extent, the parent/parents are also present as part of the diagnostic process, which helps the psychologist gain insight into the relationship between the child and the parent in a play situation and thus better understand the child’s behavior, including in everyday situations during the day.

The therapist thus creates a safe environment in which the child can express themselves freely and bring into play their patterns of behavior that are the subject of their emotional difficulties. In this way, the therapist actively experiences the child’s inner world expressed in play.

Play therapy is suitable for children from approx. 2 to 12 years of age; it is suitable for addressing a wide range of problems such as, for example: behavioral disorders, attachment disorders, separation anxiety, emotional swings, psychosomatic problems, and many others.

Through play therapy, we help children and parents through outpatient care, but this form of therapy can also be used by children during hospitalization.

Neuropsychological examination

Neuropsychological examination focuses on assessing cognitive disorders in various neurological diseases, especially neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular diseases.
The outpatient clinic is staffed by a certified clinical neuropsychologist, also specialized in clinical psychology and holding a certificate in psychotherapy.
From a neuropsychological perspective, we also assess conditions after brain injuries, after encephalitis of various causes, and after prolonged resuscitations.
The scope of this outpatient clinic includes determining the level and degree of decline in cognitive abilities, and diagnosing disorders of emotionality, personality, and behavior.
In cooperation with a neurologist, differential diagnosis of dementias and distinguishing organic and non-organic disorders.
Proposal and implementation of cognitive function training through neuropsychological rehabilitation.
Provision of psychotherapy by a certified therapist

Contact: PhDr. Silvia Királová, 037/65 45 382

Office hours:Monday and Wednesday 7:30–15:00

Address: The outpatient clinic is located in the New Treatment Pavilion, on the ground floor—go right, walk along the entire corridor to the side elevator, and then to the 3rd floor. The outpatient clinic has door No. 8.

Professional counseling for drivers

PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING FOR DRIVERS

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

If your driving licence has been withdrawn for driving under the influence of alcohol or another addictive substance, you must, based on a police decision, undergo so-called PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING FOR DRIVERS with an assessing psychologist. This has been a legal obligation since 2011 under the amendment to Act No. 8/2009 Coll.

WHAT IS PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING?

Professional counseling is a series of professional psychological educational-rehabilitation sessions intended to lead to responsible and safe behavior of road traffic participants and to prevent further offences under the influence of alcohol or another addictive substance in road traffic.

HOW DOES PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING WORK?

Professional counseling takes place in groups of 3–10 participants. It consists of 4 sessions, each lasting approx. 3 hours (3 × 45 min) over 4–6 weeks. At the end, it concludes with a so-called individual exit interview (50 min) and the issuance of a certificate of completion of professional counseling.

PRICE

€250

For more information and to book an appointment, contact us at 037/6545 620, 037/6545 787.

Contacts

The area code before the extension is 037 / 6545 + extension

Head physician – clinical psychologist, Department of Radiation and Clinical Oncology	Mgr. Magdaléna Demešová	621
nurse		787
clinical psychologist	Mgr. Hana Jom	261
clinical psychologist	PhDr. Peter Sabol	620
clinical psychologist – Neurosurgery Clinic	Mgr. Mária Šišková, PhD.	825
clinical psychologist – child psychiatry unit	PhDr. Marcela Lecká	817
clinical psychologist – neuropsychologist, psychotherapist, Neurology Clinic	PhDr. Silvia Királová	382
clinical psychologist	Mgr. Karol Zabák	462
clinical psychologist – children and adolescents	Mgr. Renáta Zabáková	819
clinical psychologist – Children and Adolescents Clinic	Mgr. Mária Jančiarová, PhD.	929
clinical psychologist	Mgr. Katarína Kolmokov	660
psychologist	Mgr. Lucia Birčáková	766
Psychology outpatient clinic I		819
Psychology outpatient clinic II. traffic psychology		620
Psychology Clinic III.