Annotation
Course Annotation: The aim of the course is to provide students of general subjects with information about the origin and development of pedagogical-psychological counseling, about the current counseling system and new trends in counseling. Students are acquainted with the professional activities and tasks of individual counseling articles (educational counselor, school psychologist and special educator, PPP, SPC, SVP, IPPP) and with the most frequently solved problems of elementary school pupils, young and older pupils.
Subject topics: • Counseling in the system of psychological disciplines. • Establishment and development of educational counseling in the world and in our country. • Current system of pedagogical-psychological counseling, legislation, new trends in counseling. • Activities and competencies of individual educational counseling articles: school counseling center: educational counselor, prevention methodologist, school psychologist and school special educator; pedagogical-psychological counseling center, special-pedagogical center, educational care center, institute of pedagogical-psychological counseling, non-profit organizations, pedopsychiatrist and medical facilities. • PPP and SPC professional activities: diagnostics, remediation and intervention, information and consultation activities. • The most common counseling solutions for school age problems: professional choice and choice of educational pathway, developmental learning and behavioral disorders, issue of poor benefit, neurotic difficulties, aggressive and antisocial behavior, developmental difficulties and crisis of parental authority.