Course: General Psychotherapy

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Course title General Psychotherapy
Course code PCH/MOPT
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Procházka Roman, doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Obereignerů Radko, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1) Deep psychotherapy Psychoanalysis of S. Freud, Adler and Jung psychotherapy. Concept of unconscious, instinctive forces, conflict and its displacement. Psychoanalytic technique, free associations, transmission, counter-transmission. Short psychotherapy with analytical orientation. Feeling of inferiority, family constellation, Jung's concept of archetypes. 2) Dynamic psychotherapy Psychotherapy in the concept of K. Horney, H. Sullivan, F. Alexandra. The approach of Klerman and Weisman. Interpersonal conflicts, patient's contribution to retraumatization, interpersonal and pathogenetic insight. Emotional corrective experience, testing new behavior. 3) Rogers' psychotherapy, human-centered approach Empathic psychotherapy, nondirective approach, psychotherapy by interview, patient selfexploration, warmth of therapist, support of self-realization. Active listening, empathic techniques, self-acceptance studies - Q-sorting. 4) Behavioral, cognitive and cognitive-behavioral therapy Learning theory, conditioning, forms of strengthening, representatives of behavioral therapy - Wolpe, Eysenck. Cognitive therapy of Ellis, Beck - belief system, automatic thoughts, explanation of the nature and causes of the disease. Synthesis of both approaches within CCT. Social learning and imitation learning, self-instruction, stress vaccination, learned helplessness. 5) Existential and humanistic psychotherapy V. E. Frankl Logotherapy - the need for a meaning in life, existential frustration. The concept of values. Daseinsanalysis - Binswanger, Boss, the concept of being around the world, adaptation x treatment. Reflection of A. Maslow in humanistic psychotherapy. Acceptance, target orientation. 6) Gestalt therapy F. Perle, expression, principle of presence, authenticity of experience, mechanisms of anxiety management. Hot chair technique, way of group work, unfinished business, emphasis on "here and now", responsibility for experiences. 7) Hypnosis and autogenic training, suggestive psychotherapy The nature of hypnosis, hypnotization techniques, hypnability and its relation to personality traits. Hypnotic phenomena, types of hypnosis, formulation of suggestions for various disorders. Autogenic training, higher and lower level, individual formulas. Imagination. 8) Family therapy Roots of family therapy in communication psychotherapy by P. Watzlawicka, links Palo Altské školy - Bateson. Minuchin, Bowen, Haley. Systemic and systemic approach, Milan school, V. Satirova concept. Techniques of family therapy. Family therapy techniques - miracle questions, systemic questions, circular questioning, family system building, family island, externalization. 9) Group psychotherapy Moren direction, analytical direction, transaction analysis, encounter, topological direction, eclectic direction, group psychotherapy of psychoses, community. Psychodrama, pantomimics, music therapy, art therapy, Knobloch, Junová, Yalom. 10) Other directions and approaches Transpersonal psychology, holotropic breathing. Satitherapy, bioenergetics, positive psychotherapy. 11) Research psychotherapy Research methodology, variables in psychotherapy, classical and factorial projects. 12) Research of psychotherapy results Percentage of success, controversy over the efficacy of therapy, spontaneous remission and the impact of non-therapy factors. Research projects with control groups. Negative effects of psychotherapy. 13) Research of the therapy process Content analysis system, model research. Research in group psychotherapy. 14) Integration and comprehensive approach in psychotherapy Eclectic and integrative directions, common effective factors, alternative factors, difference of efficiency. Complex use of methods. Examples of integrative concepts - Lazarus, Knobloch, Norcross ...

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
  • Attendace - 8 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 67 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 50 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
To provide knowledges about relevant psychotherapeutic systems, understanding of methods of psychotherapy, obtain information about research in Psychotherapy.
Students obtain information about basic psychotherapeutic school, methods and problematics of research in psychotherapy.
Prerequisites
Course is for students of 3rd block of psychological studies, it is assumed that they have knowledges of General psychology and psychodiagnostic.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Seminar Work

1) Personal attendance on seminary 2) Presentation of actuality from psychotherapy (paper form) General psychotherapy exam questions 1) Definition of psychotherapy, its classification, types of psychotherapy, indications for psychotherapy, psychotherapy interview. 2) Psychoanalysis, the theory of S. Freud, his contemporaries and successors. 3) Psychotherapy in the concept of A. Adler and C. G. Jung. 4) Dynamic psychotherapy. 5) Person-centered therapy, C.R. Rogers approach. 6) Existential psychotherapy, dasein analysis, logotherapy. 7) Cognitive and cognitive-behavioral therapy. 8) Communication and strategic therapy, concept of the Palo Alto school. 9) Gestalt therapy. 10) Transaction analysis. 11) Family therapy, systemic and systemic concepts. 12) Hypnotherapy and the use of suggestion. 13) Group psychotherapy and therapeutic community. 14) Integrative approaches in psychotherapy, general models of psychotherapy. 15) Issues of psychotherapy research, methodological starting points. 16) Outcomes research and therapy process research. Effective factors in psychotherapy.
Recommended literature
  • ANDRLOVÁ, M. (2005). Současné směry v české psychoterapii. Praha : Triton.
  • KRATOCHVÍL, S. (1995). Skupinová psychoterapie v praxi. Praha : Galén.
  • Kratochvíl S. (2001). Základy psychoterapie. Praha, Portál.
  • Prochaska J.O., Norcross J.C. Psychoterapeutické systémy.
  • Vymětal J. (2003). Úvod do psychoterapie. Praha, Grada.
  • Yalom, D., I. (2003). Chvála psychoterapie. Portál - Praha.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Psychology (2019) Category: Psychology courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter