PSY478 Counselling case studies

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Miroslava Čapková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Miroslava Čapková
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: PhDr. Miroslava Čapková
Timetable
Wed 18:00–19:30 U32
Prerequisites
psy407 Councelling Psychology I && psy403 Psychodiagnostics of children && psy411 Educational and School Psych
Basic knowledge of topics and literature from courses Counseling psychology, Development psychology, Psychodiagnostic of children and adolescenets, Educational psychology is expected.
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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Goal: to get students acquainted (by form of casuistics) with practical examples of counseling work with children and adolescents, with their parents, teachers (in both pedagogic and family system), with forms of therapeutic counselling, to arrange personal experience for them with some basic diagnostic techniques and procedures, especially how the interpretation of gained results is used in practise.
Syllabus
  • Topics:
  • Introducing to issues of counselling work
  • Elementary school age period (laterality, somatoformic difficulties of children and solving them, school matureness)
  • Specific malfunctions of learning – forms of dysfunctions and school succes, what is and what is not dysfuntion of learnig and how to identify the difference, attitudes parents/teachers to dysfunctions
  • Specific dysfunctions of behavior – ADD, ADHD, forms of hyperkinetic syndrome
  • Dysfunctions of behavior – what can be behind their origin (practical work on casuistic set by lecturer – work in group)
  • Children with mental disorder
  • Disharmonic evolution of personality
  • Talented children
  • Children with somatic disablement in normal school (integration)
  • Work with parents – how to communicate about the resluts with different kind of parents
  • Work with educational system (teachers, pedagogic advisors, school psychologists etc.)
  • (Actice participation of students is welcome)
Literature
  • Svoboda,M.,Krejčířová,D.,Vágnerová,M.(2001): Psychodiagnostika dětí a mládeže. Praha, Portál
  • PEŠOVÁ, ilona and miroslav ŠAMALÍK. Poradenská psychologie pro děti a mládež. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2006. info
  • LANGMEIER, Josef and Dana KREJČÍŘOVÁ. Vývojová psychologie. 2., aktualizované vydání. Praha: Grada, 2006, 368 stran. ISBN 9788024712840. URL info
  • MATĚJČEK, Zdeněk. Co děti nejvíc potřebují. Vyd. 3. Praha: Portál, 2003, 108 s. ISBN 80-7178-853-8. info
  • ZELINKOVÁ, Olga. Poruchy učení. Praha: Portál, 2003, 263 pp. ISBN 80-7178-800-7. info
  • DAVIDO, Roseline. Kresba jako nástroj poznání dítěte :[dětská kresba z pohledu psychologie]. Edited by Jaroslav Šturma, Translated by Alena Lhotová - Hana Prousková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2001, 205 s., 8. ISBN 80-7178-449-4. info
  • HARTL, Pavel and Helena HARTLOVÁ. Psychologický slovník. Vydání první. Praha: Portál, 2000, 774 stran. ISBN 807178303X. info
  • KOCUROVÁ, Marie. Specifické poruchy učení a chování. 1. vyd. V Plzni: Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2000, 95 s. ISBN 807082705X. info
  • LANGMEIER, Josef and Zdeněk MATĚJČEK. Psychická deprivace v dětství. Praha: SPN, 1969. info
Teaching methods
seminary, casuistics
Assessment methods
Conditions of passing the course
Attendance (80%), essay of min. 2 pages, inclusion
Proposal of topic for an essay:
1.Theoretic elaboration of one of the area from the course, inluding summary of contribution for own personal development and valuation of gained knowledge in relation to the theory.
2.Psychological casuistic of a child with a proposal for possible solution of the problem (practical modeling)
3.Reflexion of the course
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: ST 18:00--19:40 U23.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012.
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