Syllabus
Psychosocial intervention definition and methods
PI and preventive activities
PI and mental illness
PI and somatic illness
PI at handicapped people
PI in crisis intervention with adults
PI in crisis intervention with children
PI at professionals - police, medical care
PI at foreigners (refugees)
PI in business (mobbing, unemployment)
Annotation
Psychosocial intervention is a professional activity of a specific person or organisation, which aims to improve the quality of life and reduce the suffering of individuals or groups of people. It is an activity, which is a response to individual or social demands.
- focus on traditional fields of psychosocial intervention
- try to find new fields of psychological intervention in practice
- find psychological programs for the everyday problems
- connect the knowledge from other psychological subjects
- support heuristic thinking
- support teamwork
- train presentation and discussion