FSS:PST449 Child and Adolescent Psychothe - Course Information

PST449 Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Roman Hytych, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Magdalena Valášková (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Kostínková, Ph.D. (assistant)

Guaranteed by

PhDr. Roman Hytych, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies

Timetable

Mon 18:00–19:40 U35

Prerequisites (in Czech)

SOUHLAS

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Psychotherapeutic Studies (programme FSS, N-PS)

Course objectives

At the end of lectures students will be able to organize knowledge in topics related to psychotherapy of children and adolescents. They will be able to interpret this knowledge and discuss it critically in relation to concrete case studies, as well as come with their own proposals on how to deal with different clinical cases.

Syllabus

• 1. Overview of the course, discussed themes, and course goals. The contract with students is concluded. Relevant diagnostic units, intervening institutions and legislative frame. Nosological versus problematic diagnose. We are not alone to face and manage the problems – team co-operation (school, municipal authorities, family, peer groups, NGO offering leisure time activities, police, child psychiatric department etc.). 2. Therapeutic contract concluding specifics in case of the children and adolescents. Ethics. Which possibilities offers work with individual, pair, family and group. Trust as the ground of therapeutic process. Function of therapeutic-educational contract, managing the situation of integration of newcomer, trust in relation to stuff and other clients. Techniques of group therapy: Secret; Masks. 3. Phenomenon that you can face, when you work with children and teenagers: disrupt of self-scheme (developing eating disorders); position in the peer group (bulling, aggression, inability to delimit ones limits); relationship to authority; attention deficit; school as an institution and essential coping skills; drugs (experiments or addiction); peer groups (shared believes, groups norms, and lived practise of their fulfilling); terminal goals – diversification, hierarchy and way of realization; presence or non-presence of supportive interpersonal relations. 4. How to create conditions for long-term therapeutic work? Processes of supervision, intervision, self-experience training, psycho-hygiene, supportive interrelations, meaningful life and professionals goals. Motivation and values – how to cope two months voluntary stay out of family? Group therapy techniques: Three wishes; Life before and after stay in the Centre; Function of contract actualization and its evaluation. Flights – how to prevent them, how to cope with them. Forms of external pressure. 5. Group work: how to create supportive relationship; skilful patterns of interpersonal acting; strengthening of group coherence; group defining of the living ethics (Story of Princess Kumari - group therapy technique) What to do with a renegade (black sheep)? Possibilities of group therapy and individual support. What do procedures of psychodrama offer? 6. Lecture of external tutor.

Literature

• GELDARD, Kathryn and David GELDARD. Dětská psychoterapie a poradenství. Translated by Jiří Foltýn. Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2008, 328 stran. ISBN 9788073674762. info
• PÖTHE, Peter. Emoční poruchy v dětství a dospívání : psychoanalytický přístup. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 2008, 154 s. ISBN 9788024721316. URL info
• ŘÍČAN, Pavel and Dana KREJČÍŘOVÁ. Dětská klinická psychologie. 4., přeprac. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2006, 603 s. ISBN 8024710498. info
• OAKLANDER, Violet. Třinácté komnaty dětské duše :tvořivá dětská psychoterapie v duchu Gestalt terapie. Vyd. 1. Dobříš: Drvoštěp, 2003, 261 s. ISBN 80-903306-0-6. info
• GELDARD, Kathryn and David GELDARD. Working with children in groups :a handbook for counsellors, educators and community workers. 1st pub. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001, x, 262 s. ISBN 0-333-92143-7. info
• LANGMEIER, Josef, Karel BALCAR and Jan ŠPITZ. Dětská psychoterapie. 2. rozš. a přeprac. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2000, 431 s. ISBN 80-7178-381-1. info

Teaching methods

Lectures, case studies and group discussions

Assessment methods

Course form: one lecture and one seminar (once per two weeks); Active attendance on seminary (80%) is required. The course is fulfilling of following tasks: 1. To eklaborate two critical reviews (1-2 pages)of book and artical that deal with psychotherapy of psychotherapy of children and adolescents 2. To write an theses (7 pages) based on case study materail presented during seminars as an ground for critical analyses of therapeutic process record. Theses elaborate weak and strong parts of the case study and suggest alternative procedures to attain therapeutic contract.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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