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Selected topics in LGBTQ+ psychology - YMGS454
Title: Vybraná témata LGBTQ+ psychologie (kombinovaná forma)
Guaranteed by: Programme Gender Studies (24-KGS)
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:16/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (25)
Min. number of students: 5
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: combined
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: RNDr. Michal Pitoňák, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): RNDr. Michal Pitoňák, Ph.D.
Annotation -
The course introduces students to key concepts, historical developments, and contemporary approaches in LGBTQ+ psychology within their scientific, ethical, and human rights frameworks, with particular attention to the Czech and post-socialist context. The distance-learning version of the course is structured into four thematic blocks: (1) the historical and theoretical foundations of the field, including a critique of pathologization; (2) gender and sexual diversity (trans, nonbinary, intersex), depathologization and identity development, including a revision of “traditional” coming-out models; (3) minority stress at structural, interpersonal, and intrapersonal levels and its impact on mental health; (4) principles and implementation of affirmative practice in psychology and helping professions, including the use of professional guidelines and the debunking of misleading claims. The aim of the course is to develop the ability to critically read and synthesize scientific texts, understand mechanisms of inequality and stigmatization, and translate this knowledge into the design of ethically grounded, culturally sensitive, and empirically informed interventions and recommendations for professional practice and public policy. Students will acquire skills in evidence-informed reasoning, argumentation and presentation, as well as the ability to reflect on their own positionality when working with sexually and gender diverse people.
Last update: Pitoňák Michal, RNDr., Ph.D. (01.09.2025)
 
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