Child Clinical Psychology - APS500012
Title: Dětská klinická psychologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2024
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level: basic
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: PhDr. Alice Maulisová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Kristýna Matoušová
PhDr. Alice Maulisová, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : APS500012E
Is co-requisite for: APS300411
Is incompatible with: APS500012E
Is pre-requisite for: APS500051
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Annotation -
Through lectures, case studies, and exercises, students are introduced to the basic knowledge of clinical developmental psychology and psychopathology. Emphasis is placed on the strengthening (resilient) and threatening (risk) factors of child development with an in-depth focus on the satisfaction or non-satisfaction (deprivation) of basic psychological and social needs. The child's development is monitored particularly in a relational and family context. The consequences of the failure to adequately meet vital needs for psychopathological personality development are explained. In the course of the course, students are introduced to the classification and clinical diagnosis of criteria of mental and behavioural disorders characteristic of childhood or arising in childhood. All this is understood as a basis for planning and implementing preventive measures, measures to promote mental health and psychological intervention in indicated cases.

Course Content: Specific challenges to child development; Mental and behavioral disorders, especially: Neurodevelopmental disorders in the sense of intellectual disorders and pervasive disorders, as well as specific developmental disorders (speech and language disorders, attention and activity disorders, learning disorders); Anxiety disorders and mood disorders specific to childhood and adolescence, neurotic and somatoform disorders; Psychiatric difficulties arising during maturation; Social pathologies and behavioural disorders in children, including disorders related to negative environmental influences; The family and the family system, including the burden of illness on the child.
Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (03.08.2023)
Course completion requirements -

Participation in lectures and seminars is a prerequisite for the oral examination 

During the semester, presentation of information on one of the discussed topics from supplementary literature in the range of 10-15 min. The whole teaching block will be concluded with an exam, which will include a knowledge test and an interview over a written case study (or an analysis of behavioral/experiential phenomena in a child aged 3-18 years). 

Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (03.08.2023)
Literature -

World Health Organization (2017). Mental and behavioural disorders. In International Classification of Diseases - 10th revision. Prague. 

Carr, A. (2006). The handbook of child and adolescent clinical psychology: A contextual approach (2nd ed.). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. 

Recommended:  

Carter, B. D, & Kullgren, K. A. Clinical Handbook of Psychological Consultation in Pediatric Medical Settings. 1st ed. 2020. 

The list of other recommended literature is refined during the course. 

Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (03.08.2023)