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. Intelligence 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)

Psychology of Work and Organisations

Areas for state final exams (the content corresponds to the subjects Psychology of Work, Psychologist as an HR Specialist).

. Psychology of work and organization. Subject. Subdisciplines. The activity of a work psychologist, tasks, ethical principles, competencies, application.

2. Methods of work psychology, their division, and use. Basic psychological methods and their application in the work area.

3. Analysis of work and work activities, methods

4. Recruitment and selection of employees, procedure, methods, decision-making models

5. Conducting a selection interview and its specifics in occupational psychology.

6. Interactive diagnostics: Assessment/Development Centre.

7. Development, training, and education of employees, cycle, and methods.

8. Employee evaluation, evaluation process, methods, and the role of occupational psychologists.

9. Manager – his characteristics, leadership styles, specifics of his selection, and further development.

10. Team, workgroup, typology, models, methods for working with groups, negative phenomena at the workplace

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

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

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

14. Structure of the organization. Characteristics and function of the structure of the organization. Principles of creating an organizational structure. Line of authority and division of labor as a basis for creating an organizational structure. Types of organizational structures.

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

16. The position of the psychologist in prison conditions.