Master´s Thesis Defense

Psychodiagnostics of Adults, Psychodiagnostics of Children and Young Adults

1. Psychological Testing and Assessment - definition of key terms

2. Classification of assessment methods. Brief overview of history of development and use of methods.The characteristics of psychological tests..

3. User qualifications and professional competencies. Factors influencing the situation of psychological assessment

4. General issues of psychological assessment of children and youth (Situation of psychological assessment and its specifics in childhood.

5. Psychological Report

6. Non-testing methods - observation, interview, case history. n-testing methods.

7. Inteligence tests - definition of intelligence, A brief overview of models of intelligence

8. Wechsler Intelligence Scale

9. Tests of mental functions, special abilities

10. Projective methods.

11. Personality measurement - questionnaires, inventories, rating scales

12. Assessment methods of early development.

13. Assessment of school achievement

14. Partial learning disabilities.

15. Children's drawings

16. Problems of middle childhood - Assessment of external and internal troubles

Areas for state exams (content corresponds to the subjects Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychiatry and Psychopathology for Psychologists, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy).

Counselling and School Psychology

COUNSELING AND SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY

Areas for state final exams (content corresponds to the subjects Educational Psychology, School Psychology, Counseling Psychology for Children and Youth, Counseling Psychology for Adults and Seniors)

1. Significance, characteristics of taxonomies of educational goals and their application in the context of education.

2. The contribution of meaningful learning and discovery learning in increasing the effectiveness of school learning and the course of acquiring fluency and comprehension of reading. Overview and characteristics of skills important for mastering the basics of mathematics.

3. Characteristics and confrontation of traditional and alternative methods of diagnostics of abilities as prerequisites for school performance. Description of goals, essence and models of dynamic evaluation of learning potential.

4. Overview of procedures for assessment and management of learning disabilities based on the curriculum. The essence and steps of pedagogical-psychological consultation in school in order to improve the teaching process.

5. Characteristics of individualized educational program and the role of the psychologist in its elaboration. Intervention educational programs and their effectiveness.

6. School culture, social climate of school and class, atmosphere of school and class as a background of school performance and behavior of students. Model of quality of life in the school environment.

7. Challenging situations in the school environment from the position of a student and a teacher. The effect of factors that maintain, strengthen and support the health of teachers and students.

8. Characteristics of educational problem behavior and the possibility of correction of disruptive and non-disruptive educational problem behavior. Possibilities of using mediation as an alternative way of resolving conflict situations in the work of a school psychologist.

9. Characteristics and comparison of professional and non-professional forms of control and assistance in the work of a school psychologist. Defining the areas and possibilities of crisis intervention in the work of a school psychologist.

10. Career development as a lifelong process, choice of profession as a life development task. Tasks of vocational education, career counseling and possibilities of consultation in the work of a school psychologist.

11. Strategies and effectiveness of preventive work in the work of a school psychologist. Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of drug use.

12. Specifics of the counseling process and interview in older adults and seniors.

13. Counseling competencies and helping skills in counseling work with older adults and seniors. Structure of psychological help in the case of older adults and seniors.

14. Methods of counseling for older adults and seniors - group counseling for seniors, work with memories in seniors, self-help groups.

15. Specific areas of counseling for older adults and seniors - institutionalization of seniors, retirement.

16. Introduction to mourning counseling - definition of mourning, its function and meaning, comparison of complicated and uncomplicated mourning, phases of the loss processing process, goals of mourning counseling and its principles.

17. Define the subject of family psychology, its goals, tasks, perspectives and application areas. Describe the basic characteristics and functions of the family.

18. Systemic and systemic approach to the family - comparison, use, application restrictions. Define the terms system, family system and selected terms - adaptability, cohesion, normality, interaction, identity.

19. Characterize communication in the family - levels of communication, communication in a relationship, specify communication problems. Define special forms of communication: family rituals, family myths.

20. Characterize and compare theories of family stress and its management. Define the concept of family resilience and its sources. Family crisis from the point of view of family psychology.

21. Psychological divorce - stages, divorce potential. Reconstructed family and its problems. Alternative parental care - rules, benefits and restrictions.

22. Models and principles of psychological counseling for children, its specific features.

23. Psychological counseling for children and adolescents with bad habits and tics, enuresis, anorexia nervosa, sexual development disorders, depression, self-harming and suicidal behavior.

Psychology of Work and Organisations

Areas for state final exams (the content corresponds to the subjects Psychology of Work, Applied Social Psychology I., Psychology of Market and Advertising, Psychologist as an HR Specialist).

1. Psychology of work and organization. Subject. Subdisciplines. Activities of a work psychologist, tasks, ethical principles, competencies, application. Psychology of work and organization as a psychological discipline. What is its subject and which subdisciplines it covers. Associations, magazines, conferences. Who is a work psychologist? What are its roles and what ethical principles are guided? Describe the activities that the occupational psychologist performs and where he finds employment.

2. Methods of work psychology, their division and use. Basic psychological methods and their application in the field of work. Uses and examples. Describe the assessment of work ability, methods of assessment of work competencies, assessment of mental stress.

3. Theory and research of work psychology, theories in the field of work psychology, research methods. What is a good theory? Describe theories in work psychology e.g. McGregor, Ouchi, Belbin, Holland. Methods and forms of research.

4. Analysis of work and work activity, methods. What is the analysis of work activity and what is the procedure for its implementation? Activity and employee focus. Requirements. Relevant methods. Profesiography. Where can job information be drawn from?

5. Selection of employees, procedure, methods, decision-making models, headhunting.

6. Recruitment - who to contact and how. Employee selection procedure, predictors, methods, decision models, other forms of selection (headhunting)

7. Development, training and education of employees, cycle, methods. What is development about and who is it about? Steps of the training cycle. Methods of training programs and their advantages (lectures, instructions, simulations ...), coaching, mentoring.

8. Evaluation of employees, evaluation process, methods, psychological assessment. The role of occupational psychologists in the evaluation process, the evaluation process and its importance. What does the psychological assessment contain and when is it issued?

9. Personality of manager, leader, leader, characteristics. Leadership and employee management leadership styles, gender differences in managerial positions. Education of managers. Concepts of manager, leader, leader. Leadership approaches and leadership styles. Requirements for a manager, a pyramid of managerial skills. Men and women in managerial positions, glass ceiling. Talent pool.

10. Team, working group, typology, models, methods of working with groups. Group and team features, typology of working groups / teams, team roles, Tuckman's and Gershik's model of group development. Sociometry and T-groups.

11. Negative phenomena in the workplace, characteristics, impacts. Contraproductive work behavior (absences, late arrivals, fluctuations). Workaholism. Technophilia. Burnout - triggers, symptoms, MBI Questionnaire. Mobbing, mobber. Bossing.

12. Conducting an interview and its specifics in work psychology

Individual context - skills in estimating people, resistance to mistakes and prejudices, professional context - acceptance, empathy, ethics, mastering the technique of conversation

Interview structure, strategy, work with questions, types of interview, recording and processing of information

13. Interactive diagnostics: Assessment / Development Center. Characteristics, definition of goals, creation of the program, selection of techniques and model situations, evaluation criteria, observation schemes, selection and incorporation of evaluators, processing of outputs, presentation to the client and participants, pitfalls of providing FB on the part of psychologist, work with problematic client, ethical principles in reporting to superiors .

14. Psychodiagnostics in HR, processing of outputs from personnel analysis, AC, DC and their presentation. Procedure for creating a test battery, data collection, evaluation and processing of results, qualitative analysis, diagnostic hypotheses, synthesis of results, principles of writing conclusions, their content and structure, development topics, presentation of results to the client.

15. Principles and technique of 360 ° feedback. Basic characteristics, goal, design and application of the program, creation of methodology, principles of providing feedback to participants, outputs from 360 ° feedback, benefits and risks.

16. Basic characteristics of organizations. Organization as a department and as an activity. Signs of formal organizations. Organization and management. Organizational behavior.

17. Culture of the organization. Definitions of organizational culture. Manifestations of organizational culture. The power of organizational culture. Organizational culture and management.

18. Organization structure. Characteristics and function of the organization structure. Principles of creating the structure of the organization. Line of authority and division of labor as the basis for creating the structure of the organization. Types of organizational structures.

19. Work motivation. Theories of motivation and areas of work. Theories of content (needs) - theories of Maslow, Alderfer, Herzberg. Process theories - motivation and expectations, justice, attributions.

20. Psychological characteristics of the market. Definition of the concept of consumer behavior and its main determinants. Purchasing as a decision-making process.

21. Consumer perception and attention. Active and passive information retrieval. Use of knowledge about the differential and absolute threshold of perception. Subthreshold consumer perception.

22. Learning and memory in shopping behavior.

23. Personality and motivation as determinants of consumer behavior. The role of personality traits and self-concept in shopping. Motivation of consumer behavior.

24. Social determinants of consumer behavior. Culture as a determinant of consumer behavior. Social group and its influence on consumer behavior. Opinion leaders. The family and its importance for consumer behavior, family life cycle and consumer behavior.

25. Personality of the customer and the seller. Classification and characteristics of personality types of customers. Personality traits of successful sellers.

26. Advertising. Definition of advertising. Advertising model. Psychological processes and advertising Appeals of advertising. Elements of effectiveness in advertising.

27. The problem of advertising effectiveness. Measuring the effect of advertising. Testing print and TV ads. Techniques and technical means used in advertising research.

28. Psychological characteristics of the image. Methods of image analysis. Packaging and its effect on the consumer. Principles and procedures for packaging testing.

29. Consumer typologies and segmentation research. Market segment concept. Segmentation variables. Market segmentation methods and steps. Areas of application of segmentation research.

30. Research methods of market psychology and advertising. Use of focus groups and assessment scales, repertoire grid in consumer behavior research and advertising.

31. The position of a psychologist in prison.