Perinatal psychology & psychology of parenthood

Course: Psychology of childhood and family with the basics of psychotherapy

Structural unit: Faculty of Psychology

Title
Perinatal psychology & psychology of parenthood
Code
ВК.1.04
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
2 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
9
Learning outcomes
PR 1. To search and analyze professionally important knowledge from various sources, including the use of modern information and communication technologies. PR 5. Develop and implement programs of psychological interventions (counseling, psychological correction, psychotherapy, training), implement them in individual and group work, evaluate the quality. PR 6. Develop educational materials and educational programs, implement them, receive feedback, and evaluate the quality. PR 10. Assess the complexity of the tasks of the activity and make decisions about seeking help or certification training. PR 12. Carry out analytical search in accordance with the formulated problem of scientific information and evaluate it by the criterion of adequacy
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Know the theoretical foundations of general and developmental psychology, psychological patterns and tasks of personality development at different stages of ontogenesis; trends of modern psychotherapy. 2. Be able to select, correctly apply, analyze and interpret tests and questionnaries, be able to use basic evidence-based techniques of counseling and psychotherapy 3. To have basic skills of conducting a consultative interview, to have basic skills of organizing and conducting training activities
Course content
The purpose of the discipline is to give students knowledge and skills in the field of perinatal psychology and psychology of parenthood. Perinatal psychology is a modern field of psychological science and practice that studies the changes in the family system in connection with the birth of a child, biopsychosocial aspects of the experience of women and men during the transition to parenthood. The course deals with the study of mental development in the prenatal period, psychological aspects of pregnancy and the postpartum period, the parenthood and child-parent relationships.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Bulatevych N.M. (2015) Orhanizatsiia diialnosti psykholohichnoi sluzhby: navchalnyi posibnyk. Sumy : SumDPu. 2. Bulatevych N.M. (2015) Psykholohichni aspekty suprovodu batkivstva. Naukovyi visnyk Chernivetskoho un-tu. Zb.naukovykh prats. Seriia «Pedahohika ta psykholohiia». Vyp.743. S.15-19. 3. Vlasova O.I., Bulatevych N.M. & Lunov V.Y. (red.) (2020) Psykhodiahnostyka rozvytku osobystosti v umovakh simeinoi sotsializatsii : naukovo-metodychnyi posibnyk . Ontario: Accent Graphics Communication & Publishing. 4. Skrypnikov A.M., Herasymenko L.O., Isakov R.I. (2017) Perynatalna psykholohiia. Kyiv: «Medknyha».
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course covers topics that are united into 2 modules. Topics of module 1. 1. Prenatal psychology and psychology of parenthood as a branch of science and psychological practice. 2. Development of the psyche in the prenatal period. 3. Psychology of pregnancy and motherhood. 4. Psychological aspects of childbirth. 5. Psychological support of the dyad "mother-child" in the postpartum period. 6. Psychological support of a family experiencing perinatal loss. Topics of module 2. 7. Parenthood as a systemic phenomenon. Ontogenesis of parenthood.
Assessment methods and criteria
Participation in discussions, work in mini-groups during classroom classes - 40 (min 24) points. Tasks for independent work (work with cases) - 40 (min 24) points Preparation and presentation of the abstract - 10 (min 6) points Final test - 10 (min 6) points Evaluation is carried out during the semester of all types of work. In the classroom, the activity of participants, participation in discussions and work in mini-groups is evaluated; at the end of the course the final test is conducted. The maximum number of points for work during the semester is 100.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Natalia Mykolaivna Bulatevych
Department of Developmental Psychology
Faculty of Psychology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Developmental Psychology
Faculty of Psychology