711-0503/01 – Psychology of Law (Psych Pr)
Gurantor department | Department of Social Sciences | Credits | 6 |
Subject guarantor | Mgr. Jana Matochová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Mgr. Jana Matochová, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 1998/1999 | Year of cancellation | 2007/2008 |
Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
- to describe the theoretical knowlegde in the psychological-legal areas
- to recognize important psychological sites in professional situations
- to understand the socio-pathological phenomens in society
- to understand themselves through learning about yourself and thus better
understand phenomena in interpersonal contacts
- to identify stress situations and predict conflicts in the interpersonal context
- to solve the difficult situations in the social scale
- to use getting social skills in model situations
- to apply the theoretical knowledge in the areas of the psychological and legal
case studies
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
To acquire the basic psychological knowledge base in such a way so that the students would be able to recognize the psychological aspects, situations and relationships regulated by the law, to gain ability to recognize the situations where there the presence of the professional psychologist is required and to provide the students with the necessary knowledge to facilitate the communication with the professional.
Compulsory literature:
TAUGHT ONLY IN CZECH
Recommended literature:
TAUGHT ONLY IN CZECH
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Problem analysis
Examination paper
E-learning
Other requirements
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Introduction to Psychology rights in the Applied psychological disciplines
forensic psychologist. Methods.
2. Great theory in psychology in terms of psychology of law. Behaviourism - media
violence, psychoanalysis - the affect of trauma on criminogenesis, cognitive
psychology, Humanist Psychology, and non-Trends direction and sects.
3. Psychology of personality - the development, the structure, dynamics. Mental
states and mentally processes.
4. Personality and normality, psychopathology, an overview of basic mental
disorders, court expert and the importance of dealing with a mentally impaired
individual, illustrations.
5. Motivation - the theme, of socially undesirable motives, disorders of motivation.
Suicide and psychologic-legal aspects.
6. Delinquency - the theory of delinquency. Socially undesirable phenomena.
7. Aggression - the basic theory. Manifestations of aggression, violent crimes.
CAN syndrome, the psychological consequences. State social network.
8. Victimology - psychological nature of victimization, typology of
victim. Stockholm syndrome. Perception of injury victims. Negotiations with the
offense.
9. Individual in difficult life situations - the types of psychological burden,workload,
mobbing, bossing, stress. Burnout. The possibility of prevention.
10.Psychological crisis - their development, crisis intervention, specifics of
the "risky profession" and the possibility of prevention. Post-traumatic Stress
Disorder.
11.Conflikts and their solutions. Illustrations. Conflict situations in the negotiations
citizens, psychological analysis of conflict situations.
12.Negotiation in crisis situations. Components for negotiating phase the
negotiation process.
13.Psychology questioning and testimony, communication and psychological
effect.Specifics for each category. Typology of witnesses.
14.Basic legally-application psychology - psychological conditions
quality decision-making, psychological characteristics of a lawyer.
Conditions for subject completion
Conditions for completion are defined only for particular subject version and form of study
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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