Course for international guest/part time students

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Psychology

Organization

PPK Institute of Research on Adult Education and Knowledge Management

Code

HRCM21-111

Title

Counselling and Social Psychology - seminar

Usual semester

Autumn

ECTS

2

Language

en

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide students with knowledge regarding social situations, more specifically the social psychological aspects of counselling, interpersonal communication and the factors influencing it; respectively to help students to acknowledge those important socio-psychological phenomena and important topics that appear in the counselling process. The course will introduce to students the relationship between social psychology and counselling and also the socio-psychological approach of the counselling process, actors and methods.

Course content

Main topics are: socialization, social learning, roles and status, personal perception, impression creation, attribution, prejudices and stereotypes, conformism, social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, facilitation, aggression, counseling situation, attitudes, individual and group counseling, group dynamic.

Assessment method

Upon the successful completion of this course students will be able to understand and to interpret the socio-psychological phenomena related to human resources counselling (skill level). This practical course is closely related to the first Counselling and social psychology-lecture course, here the students assimilate the theoretical knowledge through small-group exercises and experiental learning.

Bibliography

Egan, G. (2014): The skilled helper: a problem-management and opportunity-development approach to helping. Brooks/Cole, Cangage Learning, ISBN: 978-1-285-06571-7 Gelso, C. J. & Fretz, B. R. (2014). Counseling psychology 3rd ed. Harcourt College Publishers: NY. ISBN: 978-1433817113 Forgas, Joseph P. and Williams, Kipling D.(2003): The social mind: Cognitive and motivational aspects of interpersonal behavior. Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 978-0521541251

Programmes of the course