Psychosocial Intervention - APS300042
Title: Psychosociální intervence
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2017
Semester: winter
Points: 4
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, colloquium [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level: basic
Is provided by: APS500004
Guarantor: PhDr. Mgr. Simona Hoskovcová, Ph.D.
Pre-requisite : APS300040
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Annotation -
Psychosocial intervention is a professional activity of a specific person or organisation, which aims to improve the quality of life and reduce the suffering of individuals or groups of people. It is an activity, which is a response to individual or social demands.

- focus on traditional fields of psychosocial intervention<br>
- try to find new fields of psychological intervention in practice<br>
- find psychological programs for the everyday problems<br>
- connect the knowledge from other psychological subjects<br>
- support heuristic thinking<br>
- support teamwork<br>
- train presentation and discussion <br>
Last update: Hoskovcová Simona, PhDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (23.01.2017)
Aim of the course -

Define the psychosocial intervention and speak about the main fields of use.

Last update: KPSHOSKO (07.10.2008)
Literature -

HANSEN, P. Psychosocial interventions. A handbook. 2014. http://www.ifrc.org/psychosocial

Paul V. Trad; Joseph D. Noshpitz: Interventions with infants and parents : the theory and practice of previewing. New York, Wiley and sons, 1992

Coping with disaster - http://www.mhwwb.org/disasters.htm
Summaries of Instruments - for analyzing personal & group change in psycho-social intervention & training programs, e.g., outdoor education - http://www.wilderdom.com/tools/ToolsSummaries.html

and many more on Internet

Last update: Hoskovcová Simona, PhDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (10.10.2016)
Teaching methods -

seminar/lecture

Last update: KPSHOSKO (07.10.2008)
Requirements to the exam -

During the semester you have to do some small homework in between the meetings. You prepare two bigger projects during the semester (possible in a working group with other students in the course - ask the teacher) and refere about it.
In the first project you will describe a field of existing psychosocial intervention: psychosocial work with children, psychosocial care with schizofrenic, autistic, cancer-patiens and other group of people, krisis intervention and s.o. This project must have around 10 pages (18000 characters).
The second project will be oriented on a problem or social phenomenon, where we have no evidence about psychosocial intervention and you will prepare a solution (problem of pairs living far one from the other, problem of simplifying of the spoken language, special problems of students with children, how to get more smile on the face of Prague citizens...). You have do describe, what conretely as a psychologist you could do, to intervene. This project must have around 2 pages (3600 characters).

Last update: Hoskovcová Simona, PhDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (10.10.2016)
Syllabus -

Psychosocial intervention definition and methods

PI and preventive activities

PI and mental illness

PI and somatic illness

PI at handicapped people

PI in crisis intervention with adults

PI in crisis intervention with children

PI at professionals - police, medical care

PI at foreigners (refugees)

PI in business (mobbing, unemployment)

Last update: KPSHOSKO (25.02.2013)
Entry requirements - Czech

atestace z Metod sociální psychologie (APS300040)

Last update: KPSHOSKO (07.10.2008)