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Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (21.09.2023)
This course builds on Clinical and Organizational Counselling in practice – methods and techniques 1 and introduces students in a demonstration-experiential way (by direct participation or observation) to various techniques and methods of evidence-based psychological orientations as they are used across a spectrum of application contexts, i.e., in psychotherapy, counseling, psychosocial training, personal development, coaching, mediation, mentoring, soft skills training, communication training, etc. The course explains in a broader and more detailed way the differences in professional qualification training for the practice of the disciplines at a professional level, it enlightens students about the requirements of professional studies in training, the structure of its study, the course also introduces the institutions sponsoring professional training and interest/professional associations and institutes organizing postgraduate education and training for the field of psychotherapy, counselling, coaching, etc. Emphasis is also given to professional application in the helping professions, to building one's own professional identity and to differences in the performance of the psychological profession across sectors that use similar methods and techniques for working with clients. |
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Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (21.09.2023)
The course Clinical and Organizational Counselling in practice - methods and techniques Methods 2 will enable students to develop skills and consolidate knowledge acquired in the course Clinical and Organizational Counselling in practice - methods and techniques 1. Students will be able to reflect more deeply on their own professional beliefs and personal settings for future selection of therapeutic or coaching training with respect to their own career orientation, needs and professional growth and philosophical beliefs about the person and his/her social environment and the objective/constructive nature of reality. In additional illustrative techniques, students will be introduced to examples and a selection of psychological methods and techniques applied in different contexts of professional psychological work across sectors and helping professions. Additional methods and techniques from psychological approaches/concepts will be demonstrated for students in this follow-up course: systemic therapy and coaching, family therapy, solution-focused brief therapy and coaching (SFBT), transactional analysis, gestalt psychotherapy, psychodynamic orientations, cognitive-behavioural therapy and coaching, existential/humanistic orientations, psycho-social training, positive psychology. Students will continue to be guided to 1/ conscious critical evaluation of the application of particular methods and techniques, 2/ reflection on the yield and usefulness of the application of techniques in relation to the task and goals of working with clients/clients within a given context and department, 3/ critical evaluation of the developmental potential of given methods and techniques in relation to the context of their use in working with clients in different work contexts, i.e. psychotherapy, counselling, coaching, psycho-social training, educational counselling, family therapy, social rehabilitation, developmental work with work teams, in supervision in work with helping professionals, etc.Students will be introduced in depth to the irreplaceability of the so-called contracting of cooperation between the client (individual, group, organizational), the commissioner, supervisor, sponsor, etc. The differences in external and internal forms of cooperation with organizations will be named and analyzed, the work with data and sensitive data in helping and developmental interaction will be discussed, as well as the personality of the employee themselves (in the professional role of psychotherapist, coach, mediator, etc.) and their psychohygiene, professional-moral-legal protection, supervision. The differences in the practice of the profession of a psychologist at the educational institution, in the framework of their own business companies (Ltd.), in state and non-state health care institutions, in social services, in the field of education, etc. in terms of professional identity, team, cooperating subjects and other work contexts will also be discussed. Students will learn about the requirements, content and conditions for psychotherapeutic, coaching and other training, their providers in the Czech Republic and the EU, the ethics of intervention/development/therapeutic use of methods, working with sensitive data and GDPR and protecting clients from harm. Gained knowledge: Similar to the introductory course Clinical and Organizational Counselling in practice - methods and techniques 1, in the follow-up course students will learn about the different uses of methods and techniques across the spectrum of helping and developmental professions in clinical, counselling and organisational settings. Students will understand the importance of ethical considerations when applying techniques to work with an individual or group, and will know the limits and risks of inappropriate use of methods and techniques within the context, department and required qualifications. Students will understand the importance of taking precautions against harm to the client or work group. Through demonstration of different ways of working with clients in different professional fields, students will be able to understand and gain insight into the therapeutic, personal development and counselling potential of techniques and methods from a range of psychological orientations. Students will understand the basic procedures for conducting a psychological helping interview, and will understand the differences between the psychological interview in diagnostic work (clinical diagnosis, personal assessment, personal psychology) and the psychological interview about a client's personal issues in a therapeutic/counseling interaction or when working on a client's developmental goal. Students will understand the differences between the use of techniques and methods for psychotherapy, coaching, counseling, mentoring, mediation, personal-social training, soft skills training, including team development methods and games for facilitating collaboration and quality of relationships in the workplace, etc. Gained skills: Students will be able to identify and name the differences in the use of methods and techniques within different psychotherapeutic directions, and will be able to identify the differences in the meaning, purpose and significance of the use of a particular method or technique in a different context of client interaction, or contract and goals of the specialty (psychotherapy, counselling, social skills training, coaching, mentoring, etc.). Students will be able to identify more broadly the core techniques and methods of a particular school of psychology, will be able to ask key questions about the suitability and adequacy and the effects of a particular method and technique within the current trend of interdisciplinary use of methods across sectors of the helping professions, and will be encouraged to reflect critically and scientifically on current trends in the areas of developing methods and emerging schools and practices, including their own lifelong learning within their future profession |
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Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (21.09.2023)
active participation in group work during demonstrations of developmental and self-experiential methods and techniques for working with clients in different contexts of the helping professions |
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Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (21.09.2023)
Key Reading: Kratochvíl, S. (2002). Základy psychoterapie. Portál. Prochaska, J., Nocross, J. (1999). Psychoterapeutickými systémy - průřez teoriemi. Grada. Supplementary books: Corey, G., Schneider Corey, M., Callanan, P. (2006). Techniky a přístupy ve skupinové terapii. Portál. Cox, E., Bachkirova, T., Clutterbuck,D. (2019). The Complete Handbook of Coaching. Sage. Rieger, Z. (2007). Loď skupiny. Portál. Yalom., I.D. (2021). Teorie a praxe skupinové terapie. Portál. |
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Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (21.09.2023)
85% participation required - Demonstration of critical thinking skills, ability to compare different therapeutic and developmental schools, to classify the appropriateness/non-appropriateness of using techniques/methods within different contexts of application in the current spectrum of helping and developmental professions in clinical, counseling, personal development and team contexts, ability to see and understand possible ethical variables present. Written work in the form of a self-reflective essay (reflection on Courses 1 and 2, reflection on personal motivation and interest in working in a given psychological field, reflection on interest in a given psychotherapeutic/developmental field/school in relation to one's own personal motivation for working with a particular target clientele, etc. )
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Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (21.09.2023)
1.Helping/supporting, therapeutic, personality-development and communication-training professions in the world today: psychotherapy, psychological counselling, coaching, mentoring, mediation, soft skills training, communication training, personal development, etc.
2. Professional associations, training institutions in the Czech Republic and the EU - didactics of training, course, differences, accreditation, graduates' application according to departments and specialties, status of single-discipline psychology, information resources for further study and professional growth
3. Methods and techniques of selected schools and directions - demonstration/illustration, interpretation, test training/exercise, basic study self-experience, discussion, analysis |
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Last update: PhDr. Eva Dragomirecká, Ph.D. (21.09.2023)
Clinical and Organizational counselling in practice - methods and techniques I |