711-0511/04 – Psychology roles in safety and catastrophes (PsychBez)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Social SciencesCredits3
Subject guarantorMgr. Jana Matochová, Ph.D.Subject version guarantorMgr. Jana Matochová, Ph.D.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementChoice-compulsory
Year3Semesterwinter
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2002/2003Year of cancellation2020/2021
Intended for the facultiesHGF, FBIIntended for study typesBachelor, Follow-up Master
Instruction secured by
LoginNameTuitorTeacher giving lectures
MAT17 Mgr. Jana Matochová, Ph.D.
PAL04 Mgr. Libuše Páleníčková, Ph.D.
SCH0130 Mgr. Martina Schneiderová, Ph.D.
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Part-time Credit and Examination 12+0

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

Part-time form (validity from: 2012/2013 Winter semester, validity until: 2020/2021 Summer semester)
Task nameType of taskMax. number of points
(act. for subtasks)
Min. number of pointsMax. počet pokusů
Exercises evaluation and Examination Credit and Examination 100 (100) 51
        Exercises evaluation Credit 45  20
        Examination Examination 55  31 3
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Occurrence in study plans

Academic yearProgrammeBranch/spec.Spec.ZaměřeníFormStudy language Tut. centreYearWSType of duty
2015/2016 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R007) Engineering Geodesy K Czech Ostrava 3 Choice-compulsory study plan
2015/2016 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R007) Engineering Geodesy K Czech Most 3 Choice-compulsory study plan
2014/2015 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R007) Engineering Geodesy K Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2013/2014 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R007) Engineering Geodesy K Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2012/2013 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R007) Engineering Geodesy K Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2011/2012 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R007) Engineering Geodesy K Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2010/2011 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R007) Engineering Geodesy K Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2009/2010 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R007) Engineering Geodesy K Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2008/2009 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R007) Engineering Geodesy K Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2007/2008 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R007) Engineering Geodesy K Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan
2006/2007 (B3646) Geodesy and Cartography (3646R007) Engineering Geodesy K Czech Ostrava 3 Compulsory study plan

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Assessment of instruction



2011/2012 Winter
2010/2011 Winter