040-0034/04 – Psychology of Safety and Catastrophes (PBK)
| Gurantor department | Department of Occupational and Process Safety | Credits | 5 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. PhDr. Hana Vykopalová, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | PhDr. Hilda Havlíková |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2002/2003 | Year of cancellation | 2012/2013 |
| Intended for the faculties | FBI | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
On completion of the course specifically aimed to create specific theoretical skills and application of synthetic and analytic approach to processing and evaluation of selected theoretical situations to create optimal conditions for their application in practice.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Summary
The course deals with psychological aspects in hazardous situations, life risk
assessment and prevention: behaviour of a man in critical life situations,
communication and threat perception. The development of posttraumatic stress
disorders and other psychological disturbances, possibilities of solving.
Compulsory literature:
Bedrnová, E. a kol.: Duševní hygiena a sebeřízení. Fortuna, Praha 1999
Čech,J.: Vyjednávanie a branie rukojemníka. APZ, Bratislava 2000
Štětina,J. a kol.: Medicína katastrof a hromadných neštěstí. Grada Publishing
2000
Vizinová, D., Preiss, M.: Psychické trauma a jeho terapie. Portál, Praha 1999
Vykopalová,H.: Vybrané kapitoly ze sociální psychologie v kontextu
komunikace. Olomouc 2000
Recommended literature:
Vykopalová,H.: Základy psychosociální přípravy Humanitárních jednotek ČČK. ČČK Praha 2003
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Seminar work and follow-up test.
E-learning
Other requirements
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1st Basic concepts and their interpretation
Social behavior and social functioning, perception and evaluation of the situation, verbal and
nonverbal communication, attitudes, social groups and their significance, Communications
and relational structures in social groups, the basic patterns of human behavior
in social groups
2nd The behavior of man in critical life situations
Psychology in the rescue. Thematically exercise, floods and other disasters and
mass disaster. Manifestations of aggression, anxiety, fear, nature, causes.
Individual behavior, personality typology, group behavior, human behavior
in the crowd.
3rd Psychological stress and stress
Symptoms and effects of load and stress. Methods for evaluation of mental workload. personality
potential. Perception of short-and long-term manifestations of workload and stress.
Perception of environmental stress. Post traumatic stress disorder, causes,
symptoms průběh.Psychoterapie posttraumatic stress disorder. psychosocial
programs.
4th Specific threat situations
Kidnapping and hostage situation, more threatening and risky situations (victims
violence, intentional and unintentional damage to property, dealing with victims
damaged, terrorism,..).
5th Safety aspects of work psychology
Perception of work conditions and workload. Perception of short-and long-term
load and stress symptoms. Rating neuropsychiatric burden when práci.Význam
technical and organizational environment for rescue work. Basic principles
psychohygiene rescuers. Meaning profesiografie.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction