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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Psychology of Safety and Catastrophes

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 060-0016/02
Abbreviation NTPO-PBK
Course title Psychology of Safety and Catastrophes
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Security Services
Course coordinator prof. PhDr. Hana Vykopalová, CSc.

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

Čech,J.: Vyjednávanie a branie rukojemníka. APZ, Bratislava 2000,
Vizinová, D., Preiss, M.: Psychické trauma a jeho terapie. Portál, Praha 1999,
Vykopalová,H.: Vybrané kapitoly ze sociální psychologie v kontextu
komunikace, Olomouc 2000.
Skřehot, P. a kol.: Prevence nehod a havárií. 1. díl Nebezpečné látky a materiály
Výzkumný ústav bezpečnosti práce, v.v.i. & T-SOFT a.s., Praha, 2009, ISBN 978-80-86973-70-8
Štětina, J. a kol.:Medicína katastrof a hromadných neštěstí. Grada, Praha, 2001, ISBN 80-7169-688-9
Prymula, R. a kol.Biologický a chemický terorismus. Grada Publishing, Praha, 2002, ISBN 80-247-0288-6
Remeš, R., Trnovská, S. Praktická příručka přednemocniční urgentní medicíny. Grada, Praha 2013, ISBN: 978-80-247-4530-5 

Advised literature

Vykopalová,H.: Základy psychosociální přípravy Humanitárních jednotek ČČK. ČČK, Praha 2003.