* Syllabus: 1.Helping/supporting, therapeutic, personality-development and communication-training professions in the world today: psychotherapy, psychological counselling, coaching, mentoring, mediation, soft skills training, communication training, personal development, etc. 2. Professional associations, training institutions in the Czech Republic and the EU - didactics of training, course, differences, accreditation, graduates' application according to departments and specialties, status of single-discipline psychology, information resources for further study and professional growth 3.
Methods and techniques of selected schools and directions - demonstration/illustration, interpretation, test training/exercise, basic study self-experience, discussion, analysis
Annotation:
This course builds on Clinical and Organizational Counselling in practice – methods and techniques 1 and introduces students in a demonstration-experiential way (by direct participation or observation) to various techniques and methods of evidence-based psychological orientations as they are used across a spectrum of application contexts, i.e., in psychotherapy, counseling, psychosocial training, personal development, coaching, mediation, mentoring, soft skills training, communication training, etc. The course explains in a broader and more detailed way the differences in professional qualification training for the practice of the disciplines at a professional level, it enlightens students about the requirements of professional studies in training, the structure of its study, the course also introduces the institutions sponsoring professional training and interest/professional associations and institutes organizing postgraduate education and training for the field of psychotherapy, counselling, coaching, etc. Emphasis is also given to professional application in the helping professions, to building one's own professional identity and to differences in the performance of the psychological profession across sectors that use similar methods and techniques for working with clients.