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Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

Psychology of Safety and Catastrophes

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 040-0034/04
Abbreviation PBK
Course title Psychology of Safety and Catastrophes
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Occupational and Process Safety
Course coordinator PhDr. Hilda Havlíková

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.

Literature

ŠPATENKOVÁ, Naděžda. Crisis and crisis intervention.Prha: Grada, 2017. Grada. SBN 978-80-247-5327-0.

ČÍRTKOVÁ, Ludmila. Forensic psychology 3., upr. vyd. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7380-461-9.

ŠÍN, Robin. Disaster medicine. Praha: Galén, 2017. ISBN 978-80-7492-295-4.

MLČÁK, Zdeněk. Emergent psychology and crisis intervention.Vyd. 2. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7368-950-6 .

Advised literature

VYKOPALOVÁ, Hana: Basics of psychosocial training of the Red Red Army Humanitarian Units. ČČK Praha 2003

ČÍRTKOVÁ, Ludmila. Victimology for forensic practice. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2014. ISBN 978-80-262-0582-1.