Subject: Assertiveness and psychohygiene

Aims of the subject:

Student will learn principles of social relations and learn resources for own knowledge and behaviour. The aim of practical lessons is directed for giving the basic knowledge in interpersonal communication with accent to assertivity negotation and adequate self-achieve. Another part of the subject will be directed to the general problems of the mental hygiene, mainly with forms of concentration and relaxation techniques.

Subject matter:

1. Social environment, our perception..

2. Social relations and their conditionality.

3. Assertiveness as a strategy of interpersonal communication.

4. The basic types of action - aggressiveness - passivity – assertiveness

5. Compromise and Consensus - the top of assertiveness

6. Arts of Eric Berne.

7. Psychosomatic concentration, breathing and relaxation techniques.

8. Active managing situations, abreaction and harmonisation.

9. Effective negotation principles in manager profession.

10. Game in roles, position and status.

11. Relations in the social group and its dynamics.

12. Diagnostics of social relations.

13. Psychological practicum.

Indicative reading:

1. J.Křivohlavý: Psychologie zdraví, Praha 2001

2. V.Capponi, T. Novák: Asertivně do života, Svoboda Praha 1992

3. M. Pospíšil: Asertivita, Praha 1996

4. P. O´Brienová: Pozitivní řízení – asertivita pro manažery, Praha 1996

5. J. Praško, H. Prašková: Asertivitou proti stresu, Praha 1996

6. P. Lauster: Nenechte si nic líbit – umění jak se prosadit, Praha 1994

7. E. Berne: Jak si lidé hrají, Praha 1992

8. L. Blumenfeld: Velká kniha relaxace, Praha 1996.

Credit requirements:

Theoretical and methodological encompassment basic assertivity and psycho-hygiene technics. Practical act.