Psychology of crisis WF-ZPS-KR
Lectures (WYK) Academic year 2021/22

Knowledge

A student will acquire knowledge on the causes, signs, and stages of a mental crisis and will be able to characterize the phases of crisis intervention.

Skills

A student will be able to recognize persons in the state of mental crisis and will be able to identify the need to give them help.

Competences

A student will be able to talk to persons in a mental crisis, including trauma survivors, and will be able to provide them with basic aid.

Assessment criteria

Knowledge

- for a grade of 5: A student has acquired a broad knowledge on the causes, signs, and stages of a mental crisis and can very well characterize the phases of crisis intervention.

- for a grade of 4: A student has acquired a fairly broad knowledge on the causes, signs, and stages of a mental crisis and can well characterize the phases of crisis intervention.

- for a grade of 3: A student has acquired at least moderate knowledge on the causes, signs, and stages of a mental crisis and can, albeit inefficiently, characterize the phases of crisis intervention.

- for a grade of 2: A student has not acquired knowledge on the causes, signs, and stages of a mental crisis and is unable to characterize the phases of crisis intervention.

Skills

- for a grade of 5: A student can recognize persons in the state of mental crisis quickly and accurately and is able to correctly identify the need to give them help.

- for a grade of 4: A student can recognize persons in the state of mental crisis fairly quickly and accurately and is able to fairly correctly identify the need to give them help.

- for a grade of 3: A student can recognize persons in the state of mental crisis, even though s/he does it with difficulty, and is able to correctly, though with difficulty, identify the need to give them help.

- for a grade of 2: A student is unable to recognize persons in the state of mental crisis quickly and accurately and is unable to correctly identify the need to give them help.

Competences

- for a grade of 5: A student can talk to persons in a mental crisis with great sensitivity and empathy, including trauma survivors, and can provide them very efficiently with basic aid.

- for a grade of 4: A student can talk to persons in a mental crisis with sensitivity and empathy, including trauma survivors, and can provide them fairly efficiently with basic aid.

- for a grade of 3: A student can talk, even if with some difficulty, to persons in a mental, including trauma survivors, and can provide them fairly efficiently, though with difficulty, with basic aid.

- for a grade of 2: A student is not able to talk to persons in a mental crisis, including trauma survivors, and is unable to provide them with basic aid.

ECTS:

e-learning activity - 30 hours

Own work - reading of articles - 10 hours

Methods of assessment

Written examination (test – 15 single-choice questions)

1. Introduction to the lecture: explanation of what a mental crisis is

2. Causes of a mental crisis

3. How to tell it is a crisis

4. How to talk to a person in a mental crisis

5. Phases of crisis intervention

6. Rules on working with trauma

7. Conclusion of the lecture

the class is held on-line

1. PPT presentations

2. films about the mental crisis

3. discussion (chat)