PV24TK078 Wellbeing I

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2024
Extent and Intensity
10/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Guaranteed by
Institute of Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: PhDr. Edita Ondřejová, Ph.D.
Prerequisites
Experience gained during practice (professional, school).
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to present the helping profession as a risky profession where workers are at risk of developing various psychosomatic problems. The course will present the key problems of today, identify resources to successfully face these problems, and present selected relaxation techniques.
Learning outcomes
Professional knowledge: the student can define the key concepts related to the topic (stress and strain), can list adaptive and non-adaptive coping reactions, can list the key psychosomatic difficulties occurring in an individual.
Vocational skills: the student can identify specific stressors to which he/she is exposed, can also identify stressors arising from his/her profession, can identify non-adaptive coping responses used by the person.
Professional competences: the student can identify his/her own resources to resist these stressors and, as a result, improve the quality of his/her professional performance and achieve mental well-being for himself/herself and for his/her clients.
Syllabus
  • 1. Helping professions.
  • 2. Characteristics of helping professions.
  • 3. Dangers attached to the person of a helping worker.
  • 4. Burnout syndrome.
  • 5. Stress, strain.
  • 6. Significant stressors of our time.
  • 7. Psychosomatic medicine.
  • 8. Diseases of civilization.
  • 9. Coping, coping reactions.
  • 10. Methods of relaxation.
  • 11. Prevention of burnout syndrome.
  • 12. Training of relaxation techniques.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • BLATNÝ, M. Psychologie celoživotního vývoje. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2016. ISBN 978-80-246-3462-3. info
  • ŽUMÁROVÁ, M. Subjektivní pohoda a kvalita života seniorů. Prešov: Akcent print, 2012. ISBN 978-8089295-43-2. info
    not specified
  • NEDVĚDOVÁ, Daniela. Stres a syndrom vyhoření v profesi porodních asistentek (Stress and burnout in the profession of midwives). Ošetřovatelské perspektivy. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, Fakulta veřejných politik v Opavě, 2019, roč. 2, No 2, p. 65-80. ISSN 2571-0702. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.25142/osp.2019.015. URL info
  • IRMIŠ, F. Nauč se zvládat stres. Praha: Alternativa, 1996. ISBN 80-7178-303. info
Teaching methods
Monologic, dialogic, discussion, trening.
Assessment methods
Written elaboration of the topic (specification): identification of stressors to which the student is exposed, description of individual coping strategies.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Consultation with the teacher during teaching, personal consultation or email consultation by agreement.
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