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| Course name | Developmental Psychology of Adolescence and Development Support |
| Course ID | 0313-WP-PED-DPA |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences |
| Field of study | WNS - oferta ERASMUS / Pedagogy |
| Education profile | - |
| Level of studies | First-cycle Erasmus programme |
| Beginning semester | winter term 2018/2019 |
| Head faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences |
| ECTS credits to win | 5 |
| Course type | obligatory |
| Teaching language | english |
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| The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
| Class | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
Provide knowledge about development during adolescence, especially its psychological aspects related to identity crisis, and methods of supporting and enhancing developmental processes of adolescence. Prepare students for implementing knowlede of this period of life and creating enhancing development programs.
Basic course of psychology
Are hormones really guilty of everything? Multidimensionality of adolescents’ development and relations between its aspects.
Who am I? No-one? Every-one? The concept of identity and its crisis, the cultural context of its formation.
„We” or „I”? Individual and group identity.
Hiding and turning around: identity forming processes.
One for all, all for one: adolescents’ peers group and its impact on adolescents’ development.
From beginning to the end: mechanisms of youth organizations and their leaders impact.
Know-how: tips for creating programs for adolescents and projects as the most effective method of work.
Project – analysis of formal youth group, its working methods and impact mechanisms.
Literature studies, class discussion, small groups discussion, problem solving or case studies, project.
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Participation, literature studies and project are evaluated.
1. Christens, B. D., Kirshner, B. (2011). Taking stock of youth organizing: An interdisciplinary perspective. W: C.A. Flanagan, B.D. Christens (red.), Youth civic development: Worka t the cutting edge. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 134, 27-41
2. Steinberg, L. (2009). Should the science of adolescent brain development inform public policy? American Psychologist, 11, 739-750.
1. Luyckx, K., Goossens, L., Soenens, B., Beyers, W., Vansteenkiste, M. (2005). Identity statuses based on 4 rather than 2 identity dimensions: extending and refining Marcia’s paradigm. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 34 (6), 605-618.
2. Moshman, D. (2011). Adolescents and their teenage brains. Human Development, 54, 201-203.
*The subject can be run every semester, in case there is not enough persons to make a group there will be individual class run during instructor hours.
Modified by dr Magdalena Zapotoczna (last modification: 11-04-2018 17:00)
