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Course, academic year 2024/2025
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Introduction to Clinical Psychology - APS100102
Title: Základy klinické psychologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2024 to 2024
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:written
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
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State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
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: doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Nikolai, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Nikolai, Ph.D.
Pre-requisite : APS100087
Annotation -
The course takes the form of lectures and subsequent seminars. The lectures cover specified topics from clinical-psychological practice. The general aim is to gain an overview of the form of psychological work in clinical practice.
The aim of the course is to gain an overview of the form of psychological work in clinical practice. To describe the basic areas of clinical psychology and its theoretical background. Identify the competencies of the clinical psychology profession and its placement in health care organizations. The course generally covers the main strands of clinical psychology - psychological diagnosis, psychological counselling, intervention and psychotherapy, which are discussed in more detail in the Master's degree. Emphasis is placed both on specific application areas and on specific related issues - psychopathology, psychosomatics, addictions. Individual topics are supplemented with concrete examples from practice in terms of work with individuals, families and groups.
Knowledge acquired: the student has an overview of the history of clinical psychology, related theoretical concepts, and individual applied areas; understands the continuity of clinical psychology with other psychological disciplines in both theoretical and practical terms; can define basic concepts within the field of clinical psychology and describe specific psychological procedures, including methodological contexts, that are used in practice; has knowledge of specific topics discussed and described in the literature in the field of clinical psychology.
Acquired skills: the student is oriented in the issues discussed and in relation to the required and recommended literature; can formulate (list) basic problems falling within the field of clinical psychology; is able to demonstrate selected clinical psychological procedures on concrete examples; has basic knowledge and some skills related to basic examination and intervention procedures in clinical psychological practice.
Content of the course: introduction to the topic - history, basic theoretical background, subtopics of clinical psychology, relation to other psychological and non-psychological disciplines, profession of clinical psychologist and its inclusion in the health care organization. A psychological perspective on the topic of suicide. Clinical psychological practice. Counselling, crisis intervention, psychotherapy - basic overview of the most well-known directions. Counseling, crisis intervention, psychotherapy - a basic overview of the most well-known directions. Psychological response to pain and its management. Psychosomatic topics - the best known theories, psychological aspects of somatic illness. Psychological diagnosis - a basic overview of the areas covered in detail in the MSc. Psychological issues in addiction - the most common types of addiction and the problems associated with it. Psychology in obesitology. The interview as the basis of the work of the clinical psychologist. Psychological diagnosis - a basic overview of the areas discussed in detail as part of the MSc.
Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (06.11.2023)
Course completion requirements -

Credit for the course is awarded on the basis of the results of a written test.

Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (13.10.2023)
Literature -

Pomerantz, A. M. (2019). Clinical Psychology: Science, Practice, and Diversity (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (13.10.2023)
 
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