PST446 Children and Adolescent Behavioral (Conduct) Disorders

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Roman Hytych, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Roman Hytych, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: PhDr. Roman Hytych, Ph.D.
Timetable
each odd Monday 16:00–17:40 U33
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 8 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/8, only registered: 0/8
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of lectures students will be able to organize knowledge in topics related to behavioral disorders 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. They will gain practical skills thanks to direct contact with therapeutic-educational process too. Students will be able to create a qualitative resume of their experience and use it as a basis for reflection of their knowledge.
Syllabus
  • 1. Overview of the course, discussed themes, and course goals. The contract with students is concluded. Which facts and phenomena could be found under diagnostic unit of behavioural (conduct) disorders?
  • 2. 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.).
  • 3. 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.
  • 4. 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.
  • 5. 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; What comes to my mind, when I heard Centre for educational care? Function of contract actualization and its evaluation. Flights – how to prevent them, how to cope with them. Forms of external pressure.
  • 6. 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?
  • 7. Presentation of students' theses, reviewing the course. Students have got ten minutes for presentation of their theses that is followed by discussion. Written form of theses is passed to the lecturer till three weeks after completing the course.
Literature
  • TRAIN, Alan. Nejčastější poruchy chování dětí :jak je rozpoznat a kdy se obrátit na odborníka. Translated by Dagmar Tomková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2001, 198 s. ISBN 80-7178-503-2. info
  • PACLT, Ivo. Hyperkinetická porucha a poruchy chování. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 2007, 234 s. ISBN 9788024714264. info
  • ČERMÁK, Ivo, Helena KLIMUSOVÁ and Hana VÍZDALOVÁ. Deprese v dětství a její vztah k problémům chování (Childhood Depression and its Relation to Problem Behavior). Československá psychologie: Časopis pro psychologickou teorii a praxi. Praha: Academia, 2005, vol. 49, No 3, p. 223-236. ISSN 0009-062X. info
  • ŠIRŮČEK, Jan, Michaela ŠIRŮČKOVÁ and Petr MACEK. Sociální opora rodičů a vrstevníků a její význam pro rozvoj rizikového chování v adolescenci (Parents and Friends Social Support Impact on Problem Behaviour in Adolescence). Československá psychologie. Praha: ČSAV, 2007, vol. 51, No 5, p. 476-488. ISSN 0009-062X. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, case studies and group discussions, and practical parts. Practice will take place within the Centre of educational care. Specifically, students will 1) experience group therapy and reflections of therapeutic stuff, and 2) for one day, they§ll become "assistant educator" and actively participate on the client-group programme.
Assessment methods
Course form: one lecture and one seminar (once per two weeks); four times presence within preparing, process and reviewing of group psychotherapy (8 hours) and once weekend assistance to special pedagogue (twelve hours) in the frame of therapeutic-educational programme of the Centre for educational care Help Me.
Active attendance on seminary (85%) is required and absolute participation on practical part of the course (100%). Attendance on the first unit is required, because contract will be concluded and practical part of the course will be planned as well as on the last unit, where students will present preliminary results of their theses. The course is completed by the exam. Base for evaluation is treating and presentation of final thesis (minimum range is 14 pages) that is grounded in qualitative research treating of practical part and critical study of relevant literature (students work in pairs). Written theses are handed until three weeks after concluding of the lecture.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010.
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