Resocialising Psychology 3401-3R21PSR

Social Rehabilitation Psychology is looking for the best answers to explain the causes of maladjusted behavior, and then design an adequate and effective assistance, which is forecasting the anticipated effects of the changes. It uses both the psychology as the science of the mechanisms of human behavior and social rehabilitation as a science of helping maladjusted people, who break legal standards.On the one hand, this process requires an understanding and the best explanation of the reason for maladjusted behavior, and then developing strategies to change it.
In Social Rehabilitation Psychology we have the combination of both, the psychology - that describes, explains, provides human behavior and designs trends and social rehabilitation - that combines pedagogical and psychological impacts which are focused on changing human maladjusted, criminal and deviant behaviors (Ostrowska 2008, 13).

Type of course

obligatory courses

Mode

Classroom

Prerequisites (description)

The purpose of Social Rehabilitation Psychology is to develop the most appropriate model which can identify determinants of abnormal behavior on the one hand and on the other will enable to change them and lead individual to the new and positive lifestyle. The main purpose is to support the harmonious development of individuals and their social adaptation. It is possible by the changing of the maladjusted and adverse motivations and actions into adaptive, developmental and socially acceptable.

Learning outcomes

The learning outcome should be the understanding of the mechanism of social maladjustment, the ability to make a social rehabilitation diagnosis, and then designing a process of motivation and behavior change, which can stop the destructive development and replace in with the positive processes. An important result of studying the rehabilitation psychology should also be the ability of predicting the effects of rehabilitation interactions.

Assessment criteria

Assessment is based on continuous work and commitment of participants (classes), colloquia after partial batch of material, which are related to the theoretical basis. Summary colloquia can be a definitive assessment of the final grade without taking the final exam.

Bibliography

1. Ostrowska K., 2008, Psychologia resocjalizacyjna. W kierunku nowej specjalizacji psychologii, Wydawnictwo Fraszka Edukacyjna, Warszawa

Additional information

Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:

Social Prevention and Resocialisation, day MA studies

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

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