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Lecturer(s)
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Banárová Katarína, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Goals, tasks and importance of development psychology, application options, important authors, lifelong development concept. 2. The term development, form of development, factors and mechanisms of development. Principles and model of development. 3. Theories and periodization of development. Piaget´s periodization of cognitive development. Erickson´s psychosocial periodization. 4. Prenatal, perinatal and postnatal periods and their importance for the further development. 5. New-born baby, suckling period, toddler - selected developmental specificities in cognitive, emotional and social areas. 6. Pre-school children. Motoric, cognitive, emotional and social development; specific activities in pre-school age (game, drawings). Child´s entry to school, school maturity, cause of immaturity. 7. Young school age. Cognitive processes of a young school child, social relations (role of a pupil and a schoolmate); family as a part of a young school child´s identity. 8. Adolescence. Concepts of adolescence and the issue of its definitions. Characteristics of physical and psychical developmental changes. Self-concept and self-assessment. Creation of identity. Role of the contemporary. Negative social pathological events among the young. 9. Development in adulthood. Contend and extend of the term adulthood, maturity and other signs as criteria of adulthood, specific features of the development in adulthood. Changes in cognitive abilities and changes in psychic activity. Creation of identity. Professional role and its changes during adulthood. Partnership, marriage and parenthood and their changes. 10. Old age. Conceptions of aging and old age, periods. Biological, psychological, social, normal, pathological aging. Theories and models of aging. Changes and processes in early old age. Active aging. The issue of real old age. Psychological changes as results of the health conditions´ worsening, dealing with the finality of life, the process of dying and its phases.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
- Preparation for the Exam
- 50 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Course Credit
- 25 hours per semester
- Semestral Work
- 25 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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To introduce students to the issues of developmental psychology, so that they will be able to adopt the developmental perspective and understand the meaning of developmental changes and the particular periods on the background of current approaches to lifelong development. To pass on the findings about regularities of human psyche development, so that the social worker will be able to understand better the actions and motives of clients of different ages and to find more easily an appropriate way of communication.
Student knows the life age periodization. Student describes individual periods of human development. Student knows the determinants of psychological development. Student is able to explain the specific features of the psychological development in particular life phases. Student knows the expert terminology of the discipline. Student can understand the variety of behaviour and actions and motives of a person I various developmental phases. Student is able to understand the differences in experience of a child client, adult client, and old client. Student is able to use the gained knowledge and skills when dealing with clients of different age. Student can easily find appropriate way of communication. In the counselling process student is able to think in a broad context of the lifelong concept.
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Prerequisites
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KSA/UPSP, KSA/PSOSP, KSA/SOPSP
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark
To get the credit it is necessary to work out the set correspondence task and send it via the e-learning system one week before the term of the exam. To get the credit is a necessary condition to be allowed to take the exam. Oral exam.
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Recommended literature
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Langmaier, J., Krejčířová, D. Vývojová psychologie. Praha: Grada, 1994..
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Macek, P. Adolescence. Praha: Portál, 2003..
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Matějček, Z. (2005). Prvních 6 let ve vývoji a výchově dítěte. Praha: Grada Publishing.
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Petřková, A. Úvod do ontogenetické psychologie. Olomouc: UP, 2005..
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Říčan, P. Cesta životem. Praha: Panorama, 1989..
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Sobotková, I. (2012). Psychologie rodiny. Praha: Portál.
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Vávrová, P.; Petřková, A. (2013). Ontogenetická psychologie pro sociální pracovníky. Olomouc: VUP.
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