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| Course name | Assisting Development of Children and Adolescents |
| Course ID | 0313-WP-PEDP-ADCA |
| 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 |
The aim of the course is providing students with knowledge about typical developmental processes as well as developmental disorders, and indicating the most effective methods of assisting development of children and adolescents. Developmental difficulties of children with special needs will be stressed.
Basic knowledge of mental processes.
Typical processes at subsequent stages of development in childhood and adolescence: cognitive, emotional and social development, moral reasoning development.
Fostering memory and creative thinking: strategies for solving problems, stimulation of creativity.
Profoundly gifted and sensitive children: their special needs, problems with social relations, school difficulties, methods of assisting development.
Children with emotional disorders: long–term consequences of emotional trauma (including sexual abuse, breaking of mother-child bond), separation anxiety disorder.
Developmental disorders caused by biological factors: autism, Asperger’s syndrome, ADHD – typical symptoms and ways of assisting.
Adolescents: identity creation as a developmental task, identity crisis, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa.
Discussion, case studies, didactic games, presentations.
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Participation in discussion and didactic games, short oral presentation once a semester, writing essay discussed in class.
1. Meyer R., Case studies in abnormal behavior, Allyn & Bacon, Inc., 2005.
2. Rutter M., Helping troubled children, Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1990.
3. Damon W. (ed.), Handbook of child psychology. Vol. 3, Social, emotional, and personality development, New York : John Wiley and Sons, 1998.
4. Sigel I.E., Renniger A. (ed.), Handbook of child psychology. Vol. 4, Child psychology in practice. New York : John Wiley and Sons, 1998.
1. KUHN d., Siegler R. (ed.), Handbook of child psychology. Vol. 2, Cognition, perception, and language. New York : John Wiley and Sons, 1998.
*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 16:59)
