BA study programme Psychosocial Counselling

PREVIOUS CURRICULUM

First Year

NO.	COURSE	1. semester	2. semester
NO.	COURSE	ECTS	ECTS
1.	General Psychology 1	6	–
2.	General Psychopathology	5	–
3.	Introduction to Psychosocial Help	6	–
4.	Introduction to Research Methods	6	–
5.	Social Security Law	7	–
6.	General Psychology 2	–	6
7.	Special Psychopathology	–	6
8.	Sociology of Social Policy	–	6
9.	Introduction into Health and Social Care	–	6
10.	Knowledge and Treatment Skills 1	–	6
TOGETHER		30	30

Second Year

NO.	COURSE	1. semester	2. semester
NO.	COURSE	ECTS	ECTS
1.	Developmental Psychology	6	–
2.	Rehabilitation, Special and Social Pedagogy	7	–
3.	Quantitative Methodology 1	7	–
4.	Deliquency Theories and Process of Help in Community	4	–
5.	Tuition 1	6	–
6.	Theories and Models of Personality	–	6
7.	Quantitative Methodology 2	–	7
8.	Qualitative Methodology	–	6
9.	Neuropsychology and Psychotherapy	–	5
10.	Tuition 2	–	6
TOGETHER		30	30

Third Year

NO.	COURSE	1. semester	2. semester
NO.	COURSE	ECTS	ECTS
1.	Ethics	3	–
2.	Knowledge and Treatment Skills 2	9	–
3.	Psychotherapeutic Approaches	11	–
4.	Selected Topics of Psychotherapy	7	–
5.	Elective Course*	–	6
6.	Elective Course*	–	6
7.	Elective Course*	–	6
8.	Tuition 3	–	6
9.	Undergraduate/Diplomathesis	–	6
TOGETHER		30	30

Elective Courses

NO.	COURSE	ECTS
1.	The Development of Psychotherapeutic Approaches – Group Psychotherapy	6
2.	The Development of Psychotherapeutic Approaches – Cognitive Behavioral Approaches	6
3.	History of Psychotherapy	6
4.	Woman in Psychotherapy	6
5.	Advicing Couples	6
6.	Dying, Death and Paliative	6
7.	Psychotherapy of Adults with Special	6
8.	Suicidology	6
9.	Psychotherapy of Severe Mental Disordes and Community Care	6
10.	Psychotherapy and Spirituality	6
11.	Communication Training	6
12.	Psychosocial Treatment of Addiction	6
13.	Sport Movement Psychotherapy	6
14.	The Process of De-institucionalization	6
15.	Supervision and Intervision	6

** Each academic year, SASS offers 3-4 elective courses from the entire set of courses, or the offered number of courses depends on the number of students enrolled.

ACQUIRED COMPETENCES

After completing the study programme Psychosocial Counselling (BA), graduates are qualified to provide psychosocial counselling to different populations, such as young people, the elderly, patients, migrants, people with mental health problems, drug addicts, the unemployed, homeless, offenders, workers and managers in enterprises and institutions … During the studies, students gain competences which enable them to perform the assigned work tasks.

General Competences

The knowledge and understanding of basic concepts and methods, acquaintance with innovations in the field of study;
Acquaintance with research methods, procedures and processes, the ability to collect and interpret data, the development of critical and self-critical assessment, the ability to apply knowledge in practice and to solve problems;
Development of communication skills and abilities, especially communication in an international environment;
Ethical reflection and commitment to professional ethics;
Cooperation, group work (in international environment);
The ability to use sources and cite them properly;
The ability to document and present data to professional and the general public;
Critical reading of expert speech (discourse or epistemological analysis) and their effects in the context of the assistance process;
Sensitivity to diversity and social inequality;
The ability to critically reflect on theoretical arguments and deduction on specific problems in interactional, personal, cultural and social structural systems.

Course-specific Competences

The knowledge and understanding of basic concepts and methods within the scope of social assistance in psychology, medicine and psychiatry, as well as statistics and scientific methodology;
The knowledge and understanding of general theoretical and clinical principles of psychotherapeutic approaches and specific ones for the selected approach;
The knowledge and understanding, as well as evaluation of research methods relevant for all approaches and those that are specific for the selected approach;
The ability to apply knowledge and methods of psycho-social counselling in concrete situations of working directly with clients;
The ability of argumentation and respectful discussion and problem solving;
The ability to autonomously use resources for learning specific contents;
The knowledge of group dynamics when working with a group and / or co-therapists;
The use of critical reflection and regular supervision to assess both one’s own work and the work of others;
The ability to research and reflect upon one’s personal involvement in the processes of counselling and psychosocial assistance, in which they participate;
The ability to take a critical attitude towards his/her own approach, to assess its limits, and to compare it with other alternative approaches;
The ability to understand critical evaluation of implications of cultural problems, problems of race, gender, sexual orientation in one’s counselling and psychotherapeutic work;
The ability to collect and interpret relevant data necessary to form critical assessment (e.g. regarding the necessary psychosocial intervention), that also consists of reflection of underlying social, professional and ethical aspects;
The ability of learning and professional development with a high level of autonomy;
The ability to recognize and take into account the context of a counselling situation, its limitations, and the capability to adapt with the right approach;
The ability of autonomy in implementing individual tasks in one’s professional practice;
The ability to undertake ethical and professional responsibility to be a counsellor.