Study:
Code:	73958
ECTS:	3.0
Course coordinators:

Literature:

Description:

Distinguishing between concepts of stress, trauma and crisis. Stressful and traumatic events and their consequences. Crisis issues and crisis as a psychological condition. Natural disasters and crisis. Psychosocial support and psychological first help after critical events. Psychological crisis interventions. Basic concise psychological integration of trauma. Proffesional help after traumatic events and during the period of grieving. Specific features of work with children and young people in crisis and grieving.

Cognitive Skills:

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

1. recognize the consequences of stressful, traumatic and crisis events

2. apply models, definitions and steps of supporting people in crisis

3. explain professional actions after traumatic events and how to approach people in trauma (children, youth and adults)

4. describe different levels of approach after catastrofic events

5. analize process of the basic concise psychological integration of trauma

Practical and Generic Skills:

After successfully completing the course, students will gain:

- development of communication and counselling skills

- participation in team work and work in small groups

- interview with persons who have experienced a loss

- expressing their standpoints in clear, well structured text

Matching Assessments to Learning Outcomes:

Forms of testing knowledge:

1. Resolving problem tasks and situations connected to various stress, traumatic and crisis situations (Level 3)

2. Essay - analysis of stressful events, strategies of coping and outcomes; support after loss (Level 6)

3. Written testing through a mid-term examination/examination; test of knowledge with offered factual answers (Level 1), test of knowledge with open-ended answers (Level 2)

4. Oral examination (Level 1 nd 2)

5. Participation in group discussion (Level 4)

Consultations schedule: