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Psychology of Safety and Catastrophes

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 060-0536/01
Abbreviation PBK-BOM
Course title Psychology of Safety and Catastrophes
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Security Services
Course coordinator prof. PhDr. Hana Vykopalová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction
Basic input into the issue. Disasters and emergencies and the importance of their impact on our civilization. Breakdown disasters.

2. Man-ENVIRONMENT-SOCIETY
Man as part of the environment and society. The fundamental workings of the human psyche. Explanation of basic concepts.

3. SOCIAL behavior and social functioning. Errors in perception.
Social behavior and social functioning.
Perception and assessment of the situation. Errors in perception - Illusions and delusions. Personal and social perception. Errors in personal and social perception.

4. Communication in a social situation and its significance. Communication in a stressful situation. Crisis communication. The importance of communication in social situations and stress situaci.Komunikace verbal and nonverbal. Interaction as part of communication. Discussions and negotiations. The basic model of negotiation. Negotiations in pairs and in groups. Negotiation in a hostage situation.

5. BASIC ZÁKONITOSI human behavior in social groups.
Communication and relational structure in a social group. Social norms, group pressure and conformism. Specific social groups -dav. Breakdown and types of crowds. The behavior of the crowd. Crowd psychology.


6. Selected communication techniques in stress situation. Assertiveness, transactional analysis. Interpretation of substance. Basic assertive rights. Basic assertive techniques.

7. Conflicts, their essence and solutions.
Disclosure of conflict, types of conflicts and their breakdown by region of origin. Specific forms of conflicts, peacekeeping.

8. STRESS. Stressors. Drought stress and its effects on humans. Stress behavior. Defense mechanisms. Procedures for coping with stress. Traumatic situations.

9. Aggression. Types of aggression. Basic theory aimed at explaining the essence of aggression. Aggression behavior. Aggression-aggression.

10. Specific emergency situations
Hostage-taking situation. Types aggressors typology of situations kidnappings. Terrorism. Definition of the division terrorism. Some international conventions supporting the fight against terrorism.

11. Assisting personnel in stressful situations
Reaction rescuer personnel to a stressful situation. The emergence of the so-called. Late reactions to traumatic stress. The consequences of traumatic experiences. Preventing PTSD: debriefing, defusing,. Crisis intervention.

12. Altruism and prosocial behavior, victimology. The definition of altruism,. The importance of altruism and prosocial behavior in stressful situation. Victimology-doctrine of the victims. The process of victimization. Assistance to victims.

13. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD PTSD and other disorders resulting in traumatic stress situation.
Diagnostic criteria and symptoms of PTSD. Acute stress reaction. Adaptive disorders. Phobia.

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Literature

BREČKA, Tibor A. Psychologie katastrof: vybrané kapitoly. V Praze: Triton, 2009. Psyché (Triton). ISBN 978-80-7387-330-1.

ŠPATENKOVÁ, Naděžda. Krize a krizová intervence. Praha: Grada, 2017. Psyché (Grada). ISBN 978-80-247-5327-0 .

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

ŠÍN, Robin. Medicína katastrof. Praha: Galén, [2017]. ISBN 978-80-7492-295-4.

Doporučená literatura

ČÍRTKOVÁ, Ludmila. Policejní psychologie. 2., rozšířené vydání. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2015. ISBN 978-80-7380-581-4 .

MLČÁK, Zdeněk. Emergentní psychologie a krizová intervence. Vyd. 2. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7368-950-6 .

ČÍRTKOVÁ, Ludmila. Viktimologie pro forenzní praxi. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2014. ISBN 978-80-262-0582-1.