SZk1027a Patopsychology and Psychological Guidance

Faculty of Education
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/0/.3. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Michaela Bucková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Tereza Škubalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Mareš, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jitka Sekaninová
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
SZk1021a Introduction to Psychology
The knowledge of other subjects is not presumed. The general knowledge over psychological terms on the secondary school level is necessary.
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 main goal of the programme is to give a classified knowledge of individual diagnostic categories and themes of a patopsychology and psychopatology, psychological counselling and of topics from the area of a counselling psychology that are useful and appropriate for help to a relationship teacher/psychologist.
We come out the classical paradigm when the diagnostics, remedy and psychological care is focused on a person. The psychological intervention goes out the eclectic, respectively rational concept.
Syllabus
  • The subject and importance of patopsychology. Relation between pato-psychology and psycho-patology. The issue of normality. The somatic and mental disorders.
  • The selected topics from the psychopatology of the maturity process.
  • The mental retardation. The significant deficiencies in the structure of a natural ability, important for school environment.
  • Emotional disorders in the childhood and adolescence.
  • The development of the speech – in standard and in pathology.
  • The neurotic disorders.
  • The psychic deprivation and subdeprivation.
  • The child’s personality (adolescent) – in standard and out of standard.
  • The disorders of attention and activity.
  • The problems connected with improper family influence. The problems caused by negative influence of the community.
  • The psychopatogy of the process of maturity.
  • The ability for school attendance – judgment.
  • The circumstances influencing the capacity for school attendance. The children incompetent to join the school on usual date.
  • The lateral preference as a counselling problem.
  • The psychological care of school age children.
  • The school demands on a pupil. The performance and school performance – term definition.
  • The school results – good and bad.
  • The theoretical basics of the school performance.
  • The one-factor and multifactor determinant models od the school performance.
  • The factors influencing the school performance. The K.A.Heller (1995), V.Hrabal (1987) and K. Plocek (1982) conceptions.
  • The causes and forms of an abnormal behaviour. The correction possibilities. The children’s delinquency.
  • The child and the class. The personal, social and situation determinants of the child’s role within the class group. Types of problems and their solutions. The person of a teacher. The conflict relationships between the teacher and his schoolchild, the possibilities for psychological interventions.
  • The principles of an adequate educational effect on the child within the family – theoretical resources and practical implications.
  • The feelings of parents whose child doesn’t meet their expectations – according to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. The basis od psychocorrective work with parents whose child doesn’t meet their expectations.
  • The general and specific recommendations for an individual teacher’s treatment to a schoolchild, within the class education.
Literature
  • Myschker, Norbert. Verhaltungstörungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. 6. Aufl. Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 2009. ISBN 978-3-17-020425-6.
Teaching methods
lectures, homeworks, library study
Assessment methods
credit, electronic test,to pass: at least 75% correct in electronic multiple choice test
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 4 hodiny.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2016, recent)
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