711-0511/02 – Psychology roles in safety and catastrophes (PsychBez)
| Gurantor department | Department of Social Sciences | Credits | 3 |
| Subject guarantor | Mgr. Jana Matochová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Mgr. Jana Matochová, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Optional |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2002/2003 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
| Intended for the faculties | USP, FBI, HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor, Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
- to familiarize with exciting and catastrophic situations of modern society
- to familiarized with crisis management in terms of mass accidents
- to understand psychological aspects of crowd behavior
- to acquire communicational skills for crisis situations
- to know myself with goal to understand others
- to apply social skills in simulations
- to be able to analyze behavior of others in stress
- to learn some methods of managing stress
Teaching methods
Seminars
Summary
The attendants of the course are familiarized with theoretical and practical basis of the procedures and skills related to human behavior in exacting conditions of modern society and to human ability to manage the dangerous or more precisely catastrophic situations.
Compulsory literature:
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema , Barbara L. Fredrickson , Richard C. Atkinson, Geoffrey R. Loftus , Ernest R. Hilgard, Christel Lutz. Atkinson & Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology. London, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-408-08902-6.
Hausmann, C. Handbuch Notfallpsychologie und Traumabewältigung. Wien, Facultas 2003, 400s.
Interpol. Disaster Victim Identification Guide. Interpol 2009, 55 s.
Weisaeth, L. Psychological and psychiatric aspects of technological disasters. Individual and comunity responses to trauma and disaster. Cambridge University press 1994.
Recommended literature:
Sneath, J. Z., Lacey, R., Kennett-Hensel, P. A. Coping with a natural disaster: Losses, emotions,and impulsive and compulsive buying. Marketing Letters, 2009, č. 20.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
problem analysis
E-learning
Other requirements
There are no other requirements for students.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Safety and disasters in a changing world.
2. Crisis management.
3. Connection and communication in crisis situations.
4. Current knowledge of the brain activities and nervous system.
5. Cultivation of personality (character, emotion, intelligence ...).
6. Working with its own personality (diagnosis and development).
7. Social groups (theory, the working group, management).
8. Crowd behavior.
9. Communication and leadership.
10. Habits of leaders
11. Pressures situation, human reactions in pressures situations
12. How to handle burden, debriefing, defusing, early intervention.
13. Plan of stress disorder, symptoms, the possibility of help.
14. Possibilities of help.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction