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The books contains descriptions and analyses of communicative behaviours of autistic children; it also shows the influence of deficiency in communicative competence on the communicative function of the utterance.
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The book is the first monograph in Poland devoted to the issue of early support for child development. The author uses all the significant theoretical and empirical achievements of both Polish and foreign authors to present his own model of early support for child development focused on interactions between parents and their children. He distinguishes six features, which should determine interactions influencing development: emotional bonds with a child, sensitive responses to the child’s behavior, sharing the topic of interaction, adjusting actions to a child’s needs and abilities, reciprocity, and guiding the child’s behavior. The book is addressed to all people interested in the issues of early support directed to young children, their parents and families, also in the intervention dimension.
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The publication is script that have both a theoretical and a practical dimension. It apprises with the basics of short-term education in kindergartens, such as project teaching and integrated thematic training. The crucial third chapter focuses on the design process itself, in which it is the primary task of the student / teacher to choose the appropriate content of education according to the educational goals and to plan a reasonable educational offer including effective educational strategies supporting the development of each individual child. The conclusion of the publication is devoted to assessing both the process and the outcomes of education.
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This publication deals with a coaching issue from the coach (trainer) and the manager perspective, to the ways which they should speak to their juniors, also motivational principles and tools the participants should use in their exercise. It also includes the psychosocial development of an individual, which is aimed at gaining skills or increasing greater satisfaction with life. The publication contains practical guides to the aforementioned aspects of coaching with theoretical introduction, so all the principles and tools can be understood well by the layperson. The process of motivation is described in detail since it is not appreciated for the state in the present but for its far-reaching positive effects in the future. This publication is on a first place dedicated for sports coaches, who want to reach a positive impact on their juniors in terms of increasing performance and better enjoyment in their physical activity. On the other hand, this information is also useful for managers because it can be easily applied in their area. Nevertheless, the individuals interested in self-growth may benefit from this text.
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Adolescence is an important transitional period during which young people expand their relationship networks. Adolescents make more friends than in all the preceding developmental stages. They also begin to enter into romantic relationships, which is new uncharted territory for them. This developmental task is very important for them, and it is one that needs to be successfully tackled. It is, however, obvious that this task challenges adolescents with a myriad of problems and risks, and not everyone easily manages this stage of life well. Dynamic changes in adolescents’ social networks have to be observed holistically. Adolescents’ relationships with adults and peers, their influence on each other and how they organise themselves into new networks and systems need to be examined closely. Adolescence is also an important period for the development of mental resilience, well-being, and of the capability to positively experience things or, simply put, of emotional happiness. We are trying to understand how adolescents’ social relationships expand and change during this crucial period, and how their relationships are potentially linked to emotional happiness. The aim of the longitudinal project The development of adolescent relationships: Using an attachment theory perspective, a dynamic systems approach, and a time-series method, the results of which form the most substantial part of this book, was to comprehend how adolescents’ social relationships change in their teen years, and how relationships, their forms and quality relate to young peoples’ feelings of happiness and satisfaction. Along with the main objective, which was to follow the changes in the hierarchy of attachment figures for 11 and 18 year-old adolescents, we also attempted to identify other important factors in families with adolescents which affect their mental adaptation and development. This monograph describes the changes occurring in adolescence in the organisation of persons close to adolescents. Theoretical concepts and history of the approaches to social relationships in adolescence are described in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 is devoted to adolescents’ close relationships and their organisation as seen through the perspective of attachment theory. Chapter 3 analyses how adolescents perceive interparental conflict and Chapter 4 concerns parental cooperation in upbringing. We were also interested in the consequences of an adolescent prematurely taking over an adult role in the family, which we addressed in Chapter 5. The final chapter, 6 of the monograph focuses on adolescents’ relationships with their teachers and tries to find out whether a teacher can be an attachment figure for adolescents. The book summarises the results previously published in journals, and presents currently unpublished findings from our project’s data.
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The publication is a methodological text intended for academic staff who teach in the study programmes Teacher for Primary Schools and Teacher for Kindergartens. It aims to present a reflective approach to initial teacher education and the role of the professional portfolio in it. The publication focuses on both the process and the product of the professional portfolio. It emphasises the role of portfolio in professional development and student learning and its use in evaluating educational processes. It should help teacher educators to understand the reflective process of becoming a teacher and to promote individualisation and authenticity in the professional development of students. An integral part of the methodological text is a study brochure for students (skriptum), which serve as a guide to creating their own portfolios which may be effectively used e.g. as a material for the final state exam.
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The monography summarizes mathematical preliteracy of pre-school children in the context of their complex personal development. The research part of the article focuses on outcomes of research aimed at finding out how kindergarten teachers and prospective teachers of Pre-school teacher training programme reflect the mathematical aspects of their education and the development of mathematical preliteracy of children as an important area of their professional activities.
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The publication will present art activities in pre-school education in the context of its historical development. It defines the specifics of children's art expression as a starting point for differentiation of the offer of art activities. It defines the most important principles of art activities that will enable realization of current preschool education goals. It will present selected innovative interventions as possibilities of improving the quality of preschool education through creative activities.
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Classroom management is one of the decisive factors in the case of beginning teachers regarding whether they remain in the profession and in the case of experienced teachers regarding their satisfaction in the profession. For beginning teachers, it is an area that they seldom learnt at their faculties and that they learn first in their teaching practice. Yet when teachers are not able to manage their class, they are not able to teach their pupils something either. The monograph presents findings about student teachers in their teaching practice and their mentor teachers at lower secondary schools. Our research is based on classroom observation, interviews, and questionnaires. We study behavioral and instructional management and describe their relation to need for closure.
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The aim of the methodological book is to depict the education of the children with partial function deficits in preschool age and to introduce the specifics of education of the pupils with specific learning difficulties and cognitive disability. The main focus is devoted to a role of the teachers in the inclusive education in terms of the concept of the intervention of the pupils with special needs. The research includes an analysis and an interpretation of the questionnaire SDQ Cze which was administered at the beginning and the end of the school year at the examined inclusive classrooms and the controlled classrooms of the participating schools.
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Education of pupils with learning disabilities has been in the centre of attention of teachers, parents as well as the general public. When solving our project we verified several ways of teaching mathematics at an ordinary primary school, which might help included pupils to handle some of their problems with this subject. Key activities had been prepared in order to introduce new approaches to teaching pupils with learning disorders in heterogeneous classes, with respect to development and strengthening of pupils' competences. Our project gave a positive outcome in changing attitudes of the included pupils to mathematics and improvement of their results. Also, the structured way of teaching mathematics helped most pupils in the class.
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The book discusses the problem of psychological resilience, considered both in the theoretical and practical perspective. The first part of the publication focuses on stress, its various manifestations as experienced by children and youth, as well as on various methods of coping with it. The role of psychological resilience has been emphasized as a factor in overcoming life’s difficulties, stressing the possibility of effectively strengthening and developing it through various psychological mechanisms. The second part of the monograph proposes scenarios of psychoeducational workshops. It has been divided into units and constitute a compendium of expert psychological knowledge for professionals working with children and youth. The scenarios of psychoeducational workshops are recommended as a supplementary part of programs and norms designed to shape and reinforce mental resilience in young people. The issues they focus on include, among others, integration, development of social skills, and coping with broadly understood stress, and are considered particularly important in working with children and youth. The scenarios have a clear structure which makes them easy to understand for teachers on various levels of professional experience. The suggested methods of activating create a space for work that is based on interaction and respect for young people’s agency, thus contributing to increasing their motivation to introduce changes in their life. Recommendations of specialized psychological publications that can be helpful in realization of various sections of the workshops have also been included in the work. The book is addressed to individuals who work with children and adolescents, psychologists, pedagogists, and therapists. It creates space for creative activity and encourages realization of innovative projects in the field of applied psychology.
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The collection presents the method Work at the Clay Field®. This sensorimotor therapeutic approach uses haptic contact with ceramic clay. Texts of the collection were created on the occasion of the symposium Work at the Clay Field®, held in Prague in 2019. The book contains an introduction to the method in the context of child psychotherapy (Alena Vávrová), introduction to the main principles of the method with emphasis on haptic perception (author Heinz Deuser), the use of the method in trauma treatment (Cornelia Elbrecht), a look at common features of the method and gestalt therapy (Petra Součková), the use of the method in pedagogy (Katharina Kramer and Ina Schott), a case study with a child with a neurodevelopmental speech disorder (Barbora Richtrová) and a case study with a child from institutional care (Anna Víšková).
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The publication is another continuation of thematic communications about sexual life in selected helping professions. It targets the general population, including people with mental disabilities. Insurance of basic needs including human sexuality in accordance with modern pedagogy and psychology. Our motto ""It would be less of a problem if you were to communicate more about sexuality,"" sets the direction for the development of communication about sexuality. On selected topics: the acceptance of homosexuality in societies and the problem of communication about it, as well as communication with legal representatives on sexual issues, influences the view of the need for further education in the field of human sexuality. The publication presents selected topics from the realized empirical research, in connection with the discovery and identification problem in the attitudes and skills of future experts.
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The collective monograph describes the investigation of specific determinants and mechanisms of disorders of verbal and non-verbal communication, voice, linguistic-cognitive and orofacial processes from the logopedic and special pedagogical point of view with transdisciplinary overlap into the linguistic, vocological, physiotherapeutic and psycholinguistic areas for use by the academic, scientific, clinical, educational, and counselling public. The book deals with 9 selected disorders and specifics of communication, including phonation and resonance, phatic functions, lexia and orofacial, neurodevelopmental and symptomatic speech disorders. It brings many original and innovative insights expanding the current state of knowledge in the sciences of human communication and speech-language therapy.
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The goal of this monograph is to uncover conributions of anthroposophy, a doctrine of Rudolf Steiner - thinker of the turn of 19th and 20th century, to the modern science and psychology and compare it with the contemporary scientific knowledge. It consists of analysis of Steiner's doctrine and its comparison with findings of theory of knowledge and psychology. First, we introduce Steiner’s life and work, then his doctrine– anthroposophy, which he called aspiritual science. However, this so called “science” is inconsistent with modern science in many ways, especially in the matter of existence and exploration of the supersensible worlds. The anthroposophy presumes an objective nature of thinking, but only under the assumption of cultivation of thereof and clairvoyant abilities training. Next part is dedicated to Steiner’s thoughts about psychology. For the sake of greater objectivity in science, Steiner and other authors agreed on the need to focus on research and development of the subject of knowledge. For this purpose, a new position of psychology and psychotherapy is oered, because both of them have tools and theories which helps to discover the attributes of the subject. Consequently, we introduce a new paradigm in psychology which is a connection between natural and spiritual sciences, by the same rule as a soul stands between the materialistic and spiritual world. We also outline a new different methodology approach apart from material knowledge and an integration of the sources of knowledge – senses, reason and intuition. Further, the monograph pursues Steiner’s theory of personality and development theory. According to Steiner, a personality consists of body, soul and spirit. Steiner’s theory of personality has the same units as Victor Frankl’s or Ludwig Klages’ theory. We can also find some similarities with transpersonal psychology. We compare Steiner’s conception with psychoanalytic, socialcognitive, humanistic-existential and traits approach as well. Steiner’s development theory is divided to seven-year periods and in each of them a specific part of human being is developing. In each of the period, there is a necessity to affect the developing part according to the principle of teachable moments and sensitive periods by Havighurst. We also find great correspondence with the Piaget’s development theory, partly with Ericson’s and categorical contradictions with Freud’s psychosexual development theory. This publication reveals similarities and differences between modern science and anthroposophy. We highlighted some of the weak points of anthroposophy as well as those of the modern science and introduced a draft of a new approach in science. This draft is a synthesis of both doctrines. This monograph is a contribution to discussion about scientific disposition of the anthroposofic approach. Beside this, we also evaluate usefulness and applicability of the Steiner’s knowledge within modern science.
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This collective monograph describes the research of specific communication parameters and orofacial process deviations in the context of speech-language pathology. These include orofacial motor skills in premature children and children at risk of developmental disorders, effect of dentition growth on the development of swallowing and speech, assessment of speech comprehensibility, phatic functions and cognition, and evaluation of pragmatics in individuals with autism spectrum disorders. The results are directly related to speech-language pathology, special education, psychology, linguistics, physiotherapy, and others. The research provides a number of original and innovative perspectives that extend the current state of knowledge in scientific disciplines focusing on human communication.
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The book is intended for psychologists and researchers working with the projective method. The intention is to present the possibilities of diagnosing interpersonal adaptation and self-perception. The main part is devoted to a study based on the experience of the authors of the book with the Rorschach method as well as the existing significant approaches to scoring and interpretation of human movement determinants in the works of H. Rorschach, E. Bohm, Z. Piotrowski and others. The interpretation possibilities of the determinant for different clinical groups, alexithymia, prediction of successful adaptation and managerial performance are presented. In the study itself, the relationships of the determinant and 33 qualitative categories were verified in relation to the results of other diagnostic methods. The publication provides inspiration and practical implications for psychological research and diagnostic practice.
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Eva Šmelová's monograph Unconditional Acceptance in Child Rearing deals with the personality of the child as an independent, self-contained existence with an emphasis on the preschool age. The author presents theoretical background, elaborated on the basis of contemporary theories. The concept of the personality of the preschool child is put into context with the basic factors influencing the child's development. The text is supplemented by simple examples and at the same time by partial outputs of selected research conducted by the author in recent years. The book is intended especially for the professional public, but also for students of teaching.
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