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Upon successful completion of the course, students are expected to be able to:
- Understand family dynamics, the relationship and communication between parents and children, and the ways these influence the psycho-emotional development of the child and the adolescent.
- Appropriately use counseling and communication skills.
- Demonstrate empathy in their interpersonal communication in the workplace.
- Communicate successfully with children in their professional environment.
- Communicate effectively with parents in their professional environment.
- Handle difficult situations effectively during interpersonal communication in their professional environment.
- Implement interventions that cultivate empathy.
- Carry out interventions that enhance self-awareness and self-esteem.
- Carry out interventions that strengthen psychological resilience.
- Implement interventions that enhance individual and social skills such as emotional and stress management, problem-solving and decision-making, goal setting and achievement, assertiveness, negotiation, advocacy, and leadership.
General Competences
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Make decisions based on criteria of interpersonal communication.
- Adapt to new situations.
- Work independently.
- Work collaboratively in teams.
- Design and implement interventions.
- Use reflective skills effectively.
- Demonstrate respect for diversity and multiculturalism.
- Exhibit social, professional, and ethical responsibility and sensitivity.
- Demonstrate social, professional, and ethical responsibility regarding gender issues.
COURSE CONTENT
- Psychosocial problems of children (primary education).
- Psychosocial problems of adolescents.
- Ways these problems appear and methods of management by the school environment and the teacher.
- The role of the family in shaping the psychosocial problems of children and adolescents – Psychodynamic interactions.
- Family counseling.
- Crises and conflicts in the school environment, management of crises at school.
- Trauma and secondary trauma in children and adolescents. Methods for managing trauma in children and preventing secondary traumatization.
- Counseling in education. Applications of counseling in educational settings and the role of the teacher as counselor within the school context.
- The counseling relationship and its role in the teacher-student relationship.
- Gender and the differentiation of counseling interventions.
- Training program in counseling and communication skills.
- Enhancing empathy, listening skills (verbal & non-verbal communication, active listening), reflection skills (paraphrasing, reframing, reflection of meaning, reflection of emotion, feedback, summary).
- Communication with parents and methods of communicating with different types of student parents. Teacher stress – prevention of professional burnout. Psychology of communication. Harassment as a form of conflictual communication.