Psychic health care in information society
Course: Clinical Psychology and Fundamentals of Psychotherapy
Structural unit: Faculty of Psychology
Title
Psychic health care in information society
Code
ОК 14
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2025/2026
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
PLO 6. To develop learning materials and educational programs, implement them, obtain the feedback, evaluate their quality; PLO 11. Evaluate achievements, determine and argue the prospects of the own scientific work; The full list of Programme learning outcomes is given in the section " Programme Profile"(PLO 17; PLO18).
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To possess Bachelor level knowledges in “Personality psychology”, “Age psychology”, “Social psychology”, “Basics of individual consulting” and “Clinical psychology”, basic skills in professional psychological interaction as a student graduated from Kiev National University of Taras Shevchenko; to possess basic skills in information research, its elaboration and analysis.
Course content
Discipline scope – obtaining both knowledges of potential human psychical health disorders caused by modern information technologies, and of basic skills in psychological support in information society. “Psychic health care in information society” discipline gives knowledges of a human psychical health in modern information society, forms basics of professional thinking in solving tasks for maintaining psychical health (informational-psychologic safety), practices of providing personal psychologic support in informational society and of scientific researches in psychic health care area.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Hornostay P.P. Informatsiyna travm: phenomenologiiya i psyhopatologiiya//Psyhologichni aspekty sotsial’no-politychnoiyi sytuatsiyi v Ukrayini, P. 38-53. Doi: 10. 33120/popp-Vol23-Year2020-45
Naydionova L.A. Mediapsyhologiya: osnovy refleksyvnogo pidhodu: pidruchnyk / L.A. Naidionova; Natsional’na akademiya pedagogichnyh nauk Ukrayiny, Instytut sotsial’noyi ta polotychnoyi psyhologiyi. Vud.druge, ster. Kirovohrad : Imeks LTD, 2015.244 p.
Krafft, P. M., & Donovan, J. (2020). Disinformation by design: The use of evidence collages and platform filtering in a media manipulation campaign. Social Media + Society, 6(1), 194-214. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2019.1686094#d1e142
Margetts, H., Lehdonvirta, V., González-Bailón, S., & Hutchinson, J. (2021). The Internet and public policy: Future directions. Policy & Internet, 13(2), 1–23.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352555279_The_Internet_and_Public_Policy_Future_Directions
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lection, seminar, independent work
Assessment methods and criteria
Express evaluation, creative tasks, case
Evaluation is the sum of all scores obtained during the whole half-year Express evaluation N.1 – 24/14; express evaluation N.2 – 24/14; scores obtained during seminars – 20/12; score for independent work, case – 32/20. Final evaluation – test. The highest score within 1st half of year – 60 or 100. The lowest score for test admission – 40. Students that during half-year have obtained scores between 40 and 60, will have an oral testing and individual task, 20 scores each one
Final scale result
Passed 60-100
Failed 0-59
Language of instruction
Ukrainian
Lecturers
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Departments
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