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•Counselling Psychology
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•Organization of the course:
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•pw presentations on selected topics from the field of counseling psychology (30min) + essay on the
conditions of the counseling process in your country (3 pages)

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•MAIN TOPICS:
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•Counselling Psychology as a expert professional activity
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•CP - relationship to other disciplines
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•The counseling process

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•CP began to emerge at the turn of the century - the earliest clinical psychologists in the USA
(Witmer) and later in Europe (Adler) began to establish the first counseling.
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•Counselors psychologists in CZECH REPUBLIC work mainly with:
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•preschool children
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•elementary school students
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•high school students

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•List of frequently consulting solved the problem:
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•Preschool age:
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•delay in development, intellectual retardation, gifted children, school readiness, laterality,
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•social measures,
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•educational problems,
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•eating disorders,
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•sleep disorders,
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•anxiety,
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•autism spectrum disorders,
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•sibling relationships, etc.

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•School age:
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•adaptation to school,
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•agitation, learning disabilities,
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•ambition, motivation to study,
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•emotional disorders,
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•behavioral disorders etc.
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•High school studentś:
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•neuroses, eating disorders,
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•first episode psychotic disorders
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•Self-esteem, Self-efficacy,
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•sexuality,
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•relationship problems, the crisis of authority,
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•career choice, etc.
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•Some disorderś, syndromś and problemś, like ADHD, CAN syndrome, emotional and behavioral
disorderś, eating disorderś, etc. are occure in all stages of development on personality.
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•They have different representation, symptoms and intensity…

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•CP
•Relationshipś to other disciplines
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•Psychotherapy:
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•counseling psychology focuses more on the problems of adaptation rather than a mental disorder and
is often focused on specific areas (like educational problems, ADHD syndrome, etc.)
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•counseling is a precursor on therapy,
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•counseling is focused on actual situation of client…
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•Psychiatry:
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•CP often capture the pathology and take a client to the care of a psychiatrist.
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•Neurology:
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•Many counseling issues may have a neurological basis…like a enuresis etc.
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•Pediatry:
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•perinatology,
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•psychosomatic,
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•obesity,
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•genetics,
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•psychological effects of somatic diseases, etc.

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•Developmental Psychology,
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•Special Education,
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•Educational Psychology,
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•Speech therapy,
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•State child-care authorities, Police, Courts ...

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•OBJECTIVES of
•Counseling process:
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•prophylaxis stimulation of the client's personal growth and
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•corrective function consulting solutions already existing problems.

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•focus on Self – acceptance,
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•provide information,
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•help formulate realistic plans to solve the problem,
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•Personality development, etc…

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•COUNSELLING PROCESS:
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•Intervention and psychodiagnostics process is usually realized during 2-3 meetings.
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•Control: usually after 6 month or a year from first visit.

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•FREQUENTLY EXPECTED FROM CLIENT:
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•revamp child,
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•confirm his own opinion,
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•get advice,
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•make sure that everything is "fine„,
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•confide.
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