PdF:ZS1MP_PSPs Counselling and School Psych - Course Information

ZS1MP_PSPs Counselling and School Psychology

Extent and Intensity

1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Jiří Dan, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Jiří Dan, CSc.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Renata Buganová

Timetable

Wed 16:10–16:55 učebna 1

Prerequisites

The knowledge of other subjects is not presumed. The general knowledge over psychological terms on the secondary school level is necessary.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Primary School Teacher Training (programme PdF, M-ZS5)

Course objectives

The main goal of the programme is to give a classified knowledge of individual categories of a counselling psychology and school psychology and of topics from the area of a useful and appropriate for help to a relationship teacher/psychologist (primary school). We come out the classical paradigm when the diagnostics, remedy and psychological care is focused on a person. The psychological intervention goes out the eclectic, respectively rational concept.

Syllabus

• The relationship of a counselling and school psychology to other psychological disciplines, special pedagogy, medical and legal subjects.
• The somatic and mental disorders
• The selected topics from the psychopatology of the maturity process.
• The mental retardation. The significant deficiencies in the structure of a natural ability, important for school environment.
• Emotional disorders in the childhood and adolescence.
• The development of the speech – in standard and in pathology.
• The neurotic disorders.
• The psychic deprivation and subdeprivation.
• The child’s personality – in standard and out of standard.
• The disorders of attention and activity.
• The problems connected with improper family influence. The problems caused by negative influence of the community.
• The psychopatogy of the process of maturity.
• The ability for school attendance – judgment.
• The circumstances influencing the capacity for school attendance. The children incompetent to join the school on usual date.
• The lateral preference as a counselling problem.
• The psychological care of school age children.
• The school demands on a pupil. The performance and school performance – term definition.
• The school results – good and bad. The theoretical basics of the school performance.
• The one-factor and multifactor determinant models od the school performance.
• The factors influencing the school performance. The K.A.Heller (1995), V.Hrabal sen. (1987) and K.Plocek (1982) conceptions.
• The causes and forms af an abnormal behaviour. The correction possibilities. The children’s delinquency.
• The child and the class. The personal, social and situation determinants of the child’s role within the class group. Types of problems and their solutions. The person of a teacher. The conflict relationships between the teacher and his schoolchild, the possibilities for psychological interventions.
• The principles of an adequate educational effect on the child within the family – theoretical resources and practical implications.
• The feelings of parents whose child doesn’t meet their expectations – according to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
• The basis od psychocorrective work with parents whose child doesn’t meet their expectations.
• The general and specific recommendations for an individual teacher’s treatment to a schoolchild within the class education.

Literature

• VÁGNEROVÁ, Marie. Školní poradenská psychologie pro pedagogy. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Karolinum, 2005, 430 s. ISBN 8024610744. info
• MATĚJČEK, Zdeněk. Praxe dětského psychologického poradenství. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1991, 335 s. ISBN 8004245269. info
• MATĚJČEK, Zdeněk. Dyslexie : specifické poruchy čtení [Matějček, 1995]. Vyd. 3., upr. a rozš. Jinočany: H & H, 1995, 270 s. ISBN 80-85787-27-X. info
• DAN, Jiří. Inteligence a školní výkon ve vývoji a vzájemných souvislostech. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2002, 226 pp. ISBN 80-210-2948-X. info
• BALŠÍKOVÁ, Olga and Jiří DAN. Náprava čtení a psaní. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1991, 41 s. ISBN 8004250793. info

Assessment methods

Lectures, library study, credit, seminar work, final check of the knowledge while handing in the seminar report.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• ZS1MP_PPsP Counselling Psychology for Educators

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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