PSY142 Psychology of Cohabitation in Family and Marriage

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Ivo Plaňava (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Ivo Plaňava
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Ivo Plaňava
Timetable
Tue 18:00–19:30 P51 Posluchárna V. Čermáka
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 200 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/200, only registered: 0/200, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/200
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
There are presented overview of the conceptual approaches, models and basic knowledges within the framework of the continuum functioning – disfuctioning aspects of family and marital living together. The attention is focused on the family structure and family dynamics in particular; esp. to the developmental stages of family living, to the transitional and normative crises and their constructive or descructive solutions. The teachers aim and ambitions are not only to offer proposals of main knowledge, but to give sugestions and inspirations for deeper understanding to the own /inter/personal living. The course arises from teachers reserches, and from the practice in marital and family guidance and psychotherapy. What are the main possible profits for students? The orientation in the basic social-psychological concepts and knowledges reffering to family and marital cohabitation. Students have posibility to acquire inspirations for deeper understantg of his own living and interpersonal relations.
Syllabus
  • 1. Family and marriages: conceptual approaches, framework, concepts. 2. Changes and constants: macrosoicial and historical overview; man – female roles. Contempory expectations and frustrations. 3. Family and marital myths, illusions. 4. Conception of the family and its functions. Functioning – disfuctionig life-together. 5. Systemic-interactional paradigma. 6. Components and processes: structure, dynamics; value orientation; intimacy – personal autonomy. 7. Communication in families and marriages. 8. Dynamics: family and marriage life cycles; the stages;, its characteristics, tasks. Transitional and normative crises, break downs. . .
Literature
    recommended literature
  • PLAŇAVA, Ivo. Spolu každý sám. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1998. ISBN 80-7106-292-8. info
  • PLAŇAVA, Ivo. Manželství a rodiny : struktura, dynamika, komunikace. 1. vyd. Brno: Doplněk, 2000, 294 s. ISBN 8072390392. info
  • SIMON, Fritz B. and Helm STIERLIN. Slovník rodinné terapie : přehled, kritika a integrace systémově terapeutických pojmů, konceptů a metod. Hradec Králové: Konfrontace, 1995. ISBN 80-901773-1-X. info
    not specified
  • Další doporučená literatura v průběhu výuky.
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminaries every week
Assessment methods
Output: Written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
Teacher's information
http://www.fss.muni.cz/psych/studium.html
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014.
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