PSA_052 Consulting Psychology

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Iva Burešová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Zdenka Stránská, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jarmila Valchářová
Timetable
Tue 13:20–14:55 C33
Prerequisites
PSA_0SZ Comprehensive Examination || PSA_SZ Bachelor Degree Examination
PSA_0SZ || PSA_SZ
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The subject is conceived as a systematical overview of relations with others psychological disciplines and contents of investigation with focus on counseling care of children and juveniles in individual stages of their development. Aim: providing of general knowledge base of psychological counseling for children and adolescents. After the course students will be able to adequate control terminology and will be familiar with the diagnostic categories. At the end of the course students will to state the strategy of counseling process for the above mentioned issues, adequate procedure of examination and build battery of relevant psychodiagnostic methods.
Syllabus
  • Following issues will be discussed in this course: the structure of the counseling process (anamnesis, assessment and diagnostic methods), causes of school failure, attention disorders, specific study development disorders - dyslexia, dysgraphy, dysortography (definition, etiology etc.), pre-school period, school period, career, professional consultancy, emotion disorders in childhood and adolescence, mental deprivation, children and their school class, educational psychology. Program would be enriched with case studies. 1. Pedagogical-psychological counseling. Actual state, development, education, relation and cooperation with other disciplines, personality of psychologist. 2. Counseling care of children and adolescents in the life course. Counseling process, overview of the issues, diagnostic devices, types of examinations. 3. Developmental language disorders. Language development and its pathology, pronunciation disorders, articulation and speech rhythm, disorders of grammatical sentence construction, social use of language. 4. Mental deficiency Definition, diagnostics, epidemiology, etiology, and pathogenesis. Clinical forms of m. d., prognosis, differential diagnosis, professional care. 5. Pervasive developmental disorders. Autism, Asperger s syndrome, schizoid disorder in childhood. 6. Activity and attention disorders. Hyperactivity, impulsivity, hyperkinetic disorder, ADHD. 7. Pre-school age. Irregular development. School attendance capability. Laterality in counseling process. 8. School age Start of school attendance, school performance. School relevant deficiencies in structure of abilities. Specific developmental learning disorders. Gifted children. Rearing problems. 9. Professional and career counseling. 10. Emotional disorders in childhood and adolescence. 11. Children endangered by environment. Mental deprivation, CAN, prevention. 12. Child in school class. 13. Educational psychology.
Literature
  • PEŠOVÁ, Ilona and Miroslav ŠAMALÍK. Poradenská psychologie pro děti a mládež. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 2006, 150 s. ISBN 8024712164. URL info
  • Vágnerová, marie. Školní poradenská psychologie pro pedagogy. Nakladatelství Karolinum UK v Praze, 2005. ISBN 80-246-1074-4
  • SVOBODA, Mojmír. Psychodiagnostika dětí a dospívajících. (Psychogiagnostics of Child and Adolescents). 1st ed. Praha: Portál, 2001, 791 pp. Studium. ISBN 80-7178-545-8. info
  • MATĚJČEK, Zdeněk. Praxe dětského psychologického poradenství. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1991, 335 s. ISBN 8004245269. info
  • ŘÍČAN, Pavel and Dana KREJČÍŘOVÁ. Dětská klinická psychologie. Vyd. 3., přeprac. a dopl.,. Praha: Grada, 1997, 450 s. ISBN 8071695122. info
  • DUNOVSKÝ, Jiří, Zdeněk DYTRYCH and Zdeněk MATĚJČEK. Týrané, zneužívané a zanedbávané dítě. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 1995, 245 s. ISBN 8071691925. info
  • VÁGNEROVÁ, Marie. Školní poradenská psychologie pro pedagogy. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Karolinum, 2005, 430 s. ISBN 8024610744. info
Teaching methods
2 hours per week, discussions on selected topics with students, examples of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, .
Assessment methods
Written essay (5 pages), oral exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2002, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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