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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2020/2021

Psychology roles in safety and catastrophes

Type of study Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 711-0511/04
Abbreviation PsychBez
Course title Psychology roles in safety and catastrophes
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator Mgr. Jana Matochová, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

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.

Povinná literatura

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.

Advised 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.