FSS:PSYb1700 Adoption and Foster care - Course Information
PSYb1700 Adoption and Foster care
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Ondřej Bouša (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Ondřej Bouša
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies - Prerequisites
- SEMESTR(5) || SEMESTR(6)
Developmental Psychology - 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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Psychology (programme FSS, B-PSY) (6)
- Course objectives
- The course aims to introduce students with the system of work with children who grow up outside their primary family and especially with the role of a psychologist in this system. The course is designed in blocks, in meetings we will focus on the causes of placing children outside the family, various forms of childcare (especially institutional care, foster care, adoption) and the impact on the child. Emphasis will be placed on linking the current system settings with the knowledge of (especially) developmental psychology. Knowledge of developmental psychology is a necessity (and prerequisite) for enrollment and completion of the course.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, the student will gain an overview of the system of substitute family care and institutional care, will understand various positions and roles of a psychologist in this system and will be able to critically evaluate the current system in terms of psychology.
- Syllabus
- HOW THE CHILD CAN GET TO THE SOCIAL SERVICES CARE SYSTEM
- SYSTEM OF CARE FOR ENDANGERED CHILDREN
- INSTITUTIONAL CARE
- SUBSTITUTE FAMILY CARE
- FOSTER CARE
- TEMPORARY FOSTER CARE
- FOREIGN EXPERIENCE WITH INSTITUTIONAL CARE AND SUBSTITUTE FAMILY CARE
- ADOPTION
- INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION
- Literature
- required literature
- https://www.mpsv.cz/web/cz/nahradni-rodinna-pece
- LANGMEIER, Josef and Zdeněk MATĚJČEK. Psychická deprivace v dětství. Vyd. 4., dopl., V nakl. Karo. Praha: Karolinum, 2011, 399 s. ISBN 9788024619835. URL info
- MATĚJČEK, Zdeněk. Náhradní rodinná péče : průvodce pro odborníky, osvojitele a pěstouny. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 1999, 183 s. ISBN 8071783048. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, case studies, class discussions, self-led learning and studying
- Assessment methods
- fulfilling requirements: - active participation in the course is considered to be participation in lessons (with a maximum of one absence) - continuous study and preparation, fulfilling assigned tasks during the course - submission of the final seminar paper
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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