PSY497 Psychologist profession in crisis center for children and adolescents

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Sakař, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petr Sakař, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Petr Sakař, Ph.D.
Timetable
each odd Thursday 8:00–9:40 U23
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
PSY497/A: each odd Thursday 10:00–11:40 U23, P. Sakař
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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course will be consisted of lectures from chosen topics on psychologist work in crisis center (CC), casuistics workshops where students will actively participate in analysis of typical both child and adolescent clinets of CC, as well as the one day practice in Crisis center for children and adolescent, Hapalova 4, Brno
Syllabus
  • Lecture 1: Crisis center for children and adolescents
  • Specifics of psychologist work in condition of multidisciplinary team.
  • Workshop 1: Initiative intreview with client (child, parent, family)
  • Workshop 2: Case studies, examples of the opening interviews with clients of CC.
  • Lecture 2: Psychological diagnostics in CC. Counselling and psychotherapeutic contract in CC
  • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy with children and adolescents in conditions of CC.
  • Workshop 3: Reports by students
  • Psychodiagnostic methods used in CC. Case studies: examples of drawings, plays and scene-test scenario, results of tests and questionnaire.
  • Workshop 4: Play as a diagnostic and therapeutic method in psychological work with children.
  • Lecture 3: Child abuse and neglect syndrome (CAN syndrome).
  • Workshop: Reports by students
  • Case studies: sexual abused child (psychodiagnosis, long-term psychodynamic therapy).
  • Discussion
  • Worshop 6: Case study of a maltreated child (diagnosis, psychotherapy, state institutions procedure after report of the case).
  • Case study of a neglected child (diagnosis, psychotherapy, state institutions procedure in taking the chikldren away from the family).
  • Discussion.
  • Lecture 4: Trauma of divorce and custody conflicts. How children cope with the divorce of their parents?
  • Workshop 7: Reports by students.
  • Case study: assisted meeting of a parent with his/her child.
  • Workshop 8: case studies: divorce from children perspective.
  • Lecture 5: Posttraumatic stress disorder in childhood and adolescency. Diagnosis, psychotherapy.
  • Child as a victim or witness of a criminal act, natural disaster, accident.
  • Workshop 9: Reports by students
  • Case study: adolescent as victim of criminal act (longitudinal psychoanalytical psychotherapy).
  • Workshop 10: Case studies: traumatic loss of a near person (Crisis intervention).
  • Lecture 6: Children and adolescent on a „crisis bed“ of CC.
  • Workshop 11: Reports by students.
  • Case study: „I am not getting along with my parents, I am on the run“ ("personality disorders" at the age of adolescency)
  • Workshop 12: Topic to be chosen by students.
  • Evaluation
Literature
  • Literature is presented in Czech version of syllabus.
  • CLEVE, Elisabeth. Drž tátu za ruku : krizová psychoterapie s dvouletým chlapcem. Translated by Marie Novotná. Vyd. 1. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2004, 145 s. ISBN 8071068047. info
Assessment methods
Requirements for passing the course:
- 80% attend at workshops and lectures
-active participation at class
-oral or written presenation of report (extent of max. 10 minutes or 2 pages) on a book or article from area of child psychology, psychotherapy, psychology of trauma, or victimology.
-oral exam in form of discussion on read book from the list of literature.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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