Basics of Emergency Psychology

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

During the course, students will learn about the definition of emergency psychology, its psychodynamic background and the modifications of frames, relationship, and communication. The aim of the course is to familiarise students with the specificities of psychologically critical situations (e.g., crisis and critical situations in medicine and everyday life, suicidal crisis), the circumstances and conditions of real-time interventions, the intervention tools that can be used. In this course, students will learn to recognise the signs of psychological traumatisation and to apply the basic psychological tools that can help in crisis situations and in gaining cooperation. They will also gain insights into the risks of stress for helpers and tools for burnout prevention

Lectures

Practices

Seminars

• 12. Situation exercises - Gács Boróka
• 10. Stresses and strains on helpers, their risks, recognition, and prevention. - Gács Boróka
• 11. Case presentations - Gács Boróka
• 7. Framework for emergency psychological interventions and intervention tools to be used. - Gács Boróka
• 8. Modifications of relationship and communication, reactions, and levels of psychological first aid. - Gács Boróka
• 1. The concept and scope of emergency psychology/mental first aid - Gács Boróka
• 2. Normative and accidental crisis. Suicidal crisis. - Gács Boróka
• 9. Relaxation and symbolic tools in psychological first aid. - Gács Boróka
• 3. Circumstances of "psychological first aid" interventions (space, time, personnel, scale, nature of the event and degree of stress). - Gács Boróka
• 4. Stages of traumatic crisis. - Gács Boróka
• 5. Signs of psychological trauma. - Gács Boróka
• 6. Psychodynamic background of emergency psychology. - Gács Boróka

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

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Notes

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Recommended literature

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Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Absences may be accepted to the extent specified in the Code of Studies and Examinations.

Mid-term exams

The classroom activity and the practical examination (case simulation) at the end of the semester will determine the grade in the range of 50-50.

Making up for missed classes

In the case of absence, students are required to work on and present a selected literature in addition to the practical examination by the end of the semester.

Exam topics/questions

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Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Gács Boróka