060-0016/02 – Psychology of Safety and Catastrophes (NTPO-PBK)
| Gurantor department | Department of Security Services | Credits | 5 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. PhDr. Hana Vykopalová, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | prof. PhDr. Hana Vykopalová, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2012/2013 | Year of cancellation | |
| 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 knowledge and skills in the 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 the psychological aspects collectively in danger, disaster medicine, emergency medicine selected contexts, prevention and assessment of risks of life, including human behavior and responding to threats in a critical situation. The course focuses on the basic understanding of the fundamental concepts and related background of the issue incl. of prevention and safety.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Vykopalová,H.: Základy psychosociální přípravy Humanitárních jednotek ČČK. ČČK, Praha 2003.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Seminar work and follow-up test.
E-learning
Other requirements
Other requirements will be listed on the first lecture
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