Course: Clinical psychology 2

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Course title Clinical psychology 2
Course code FZS/KPSY2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Woleská Jana, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Lectures: 1) Defense mechanisms: their basic division, the most common form of defense mechanisms in a sick individual, the influence and importance of defense mechanisms on the behavior of a sick individual in the treatment process, access to and work with a sick individual. 2) Psychological issues of childhood and adolescence: newborn period, infant period, toddler period, preschool age, younger and older school age - prepubescence, pubescence and postpubescence, adolescence. The specifics of these periods, their normality and their psychopathology. Reaction of an individual of childhood and adolescence to illness. 3) Psychological issues of adulthood: its basic characteristics and distribution, biological maturity of an individual, legal maturity of an individual and social maturity of an individual, normality and psychopathology of adulthood. An adult's response to illness. 4) Psychological issues of old age (gerontology): basic characteristics and developmental boundaries of old age, changes typical of old age, specifics of old age and the aging process, normality of psychopathology in old age, diseases in old age. 5) Psychological issues of death and dying: basics of thanatology, the last stage of human life, palliative care. Exercises: 1) Defense mechanisms and individual behavior in health and illness. 2) Psychological issues of childhood and adolescence and specifics in reactions and behavior. 3) Psychological issues of adulthood - reaction and behavior of an adult individual. 4) Psychological issues in old age, the last stage of a person's life. 5) Death and the finitude of the human being, communication with the dying and the bereaved.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Practicum, Students' self-study
Learning outcomes
The course is designed theoretically and practically, and its goal is to become familiar with the issue of defense mechanisms and the issue of the development of an individual at a certain stage of life. Next, connect knowledge from the subject Clinical Psychology 1 with knowledge from the area of defense mechanisms and individual developmental periods of human life (their normality and pathology).
The student will become familiar with the issue of defense mechanisms and the issue of individual development at a certain stage of life
Prerequisites
untermined

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam, Systematické pozorování studenta

. 80% of the account at exercises . active involvement in teaching . reading recommended literature . written, clearly defined content of the exam in the form of a test including the subject of Clinical Psychology 1
Recommended literature
  • BAŠTECKÁ, B., MACH, J. Klinická psychologie. Praha: Portál, 2015. ISBN 978-80-262-0617-0.
  • FISCHER, S., ŠKODA, J. Sociální patologie: závažné sociálně patologické jevy, příčiny, prevence, možnosti řešení. Praha: Grada, 2014. ISBN 978-80-247-5046-0.
  • PLEVOVÁ, I., PETROVÁ, A. Obecná psychologie. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2012. ISBN 978-80-244-3247-2.
  • Říčan, P. Cesta životem. Praha, Portál, 2014. ISBN 978-80-262-0772-6.
  • THOROVÁ, K. Vývojová psychologie: proměny lidské psychiky od početí po smrt. Praha: Portál, 2015. ISBN 978-80-262-0714-6.
  • VÁGNEROVÁ, M. Současná psychopatologie pro pomáhající profese. Praha: Portál, 2014. ISBN 978-80-262-0696-5.
  • VÁGNEROVÁ, M. Vývojová psychologie: Dětství a dospívání.. Praha: Karolinum, 2012. ISBN 978-80-246-2153-1.
  • ZACHAROVÁ, Eva a Jitka ŠIMÍČKOVÁ-ČÍŽKOVÁ. Základy psychologie pro zdravotnické obory. Praha: Grada, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-4062-1.


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