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Lecturer(s)
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Šmahajová Veronika, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Definition of family psychology, goals, perspectives, and areas of application 2. Systems approach to the family, models of family functioning, family functionality 3. Theories of family stress and its coping 4. Family resiliency 5. Family crisis 6. Forms of current families 7. Work - life balance and roles conflict 8. Study of different types of parenting and families: Same-sex families 9. Methodological particularities in family research 10. Principles of family assessment 11. Clinical methods in family assessment 12. Tests in family assessment
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
- Semestral Work
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Exam
- 35 hours per semester
- Homework for Teaching
- 10 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 4 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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To acquaint students with current approaches in family psychology, research and diagnostic methods. Knowledge of families is an essential prerequisite of effective assistance in family counseling, family therapy and psychological work with families in general. New lectures on work - life balance and roles conflict and also on families of homosexual parents are included.
Competence to see the family from the systems approach point of view, good orientation in the issue of family functioning.
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Prerequisites
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Passing Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Written exam, Seminar Work
Correspondence task (seminar work), attendance. Credit conditions: elaboration of correspondence task. The deadline for submitting the correspondence task via MOODLE: at the latest by 17.11.2024 Without the correspondence task approved by the evaluator students are not permitted to proceed to exam. Topic of correspondence task for winter semester 2024/2025 (students choose one topic), consideration, system concept: 1. The transformation of family forms and the social aspects that contribute to it 2. The importance of ancestry and family history for the contemporary family, transgenerational transmission. 3. A Psychological Study of The Family. 4. Analysis of Relationships in the Family Based on the Genogram
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Recommended literature
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Matoušek, O. (2003). Rodina jako instituce a vztahová síť. Praha: SLON..
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Sobotková, I. (2012). Psychologie rodiny. 3. vyd. Praha: Portál..
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Tóthová, J. (2011). Úvod do transgenerační psychologie rodiny. Praha: Portál..
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Walsh, F. (Ed.). (2012). Normal family processes. Growing diversity and complexity. New York: Guilford Press..
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