UVSRPHK025 Counselling in Social Work

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
10/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PaedDr. Miroslav Pilát, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Contact Person: JUDr. Marie Sciskalová, Ph.D.
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FAKULTA(FVP) && TYP_STUDIA(N) && FORMA(K)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course of counselling is to help students navigate social relationships that relate to certain forms of prevention, mitigating impact and assisting in difficult social situations of people who due to certain social events (returning from prison, disability, etc.) need help.The course is conceived as interdisciplinary and based mainly on recent findings of psychology, counselling and application of legal norms. Its further goal is to provide the acquisition of basic work procedures in key areas of counselling and the formulation of assumptions for that activity.
Learning outcomes
Professional Knowledge
Students acquire and demonstrate knowledge of basic issues of counselling and can provide advisory assistance in certain social situations, using the methods and stages of the counselling process.
Professional Skills
Students are well versed in the problems of the counselling process and its phases and they can navigate basic personality characteristics of the counsellor and apply the methods and forms of counselling work.They can reliably navigate the law of social security, health and medical insurance and pension insurance.Students are equipped with skills in determining subsistence and existence minimum and can give clients approximate information on whether they are entitled to payment of benefits in material need and state social support.They can also offer services and benefits for selected target groups of clients.
General Qualification
Students are able to perceive the danger resulting from the exclusion of selected groups of clients and within the counselling process can propose solution to their social situation and the possibilities of preventive action in this area.Having completed the course, students will be competent not only to use their knowledge and skills for specific work with clients, but also to respond better to the specific features of target client groups.At the same time, the methods of the course instruction will encourage the development of critical thinking, creativity and the students’ ability to make decisions independently and responsibly.
Syllabus
  • 1.The issue of counselling, the counselling process and its phases.
  • 2.Personality of a counsellor, methods and forms of counselling work.
  • 3.Types and characteristics of counselling centres.
  • 4.Social security law.
  • 5.Sickness insurance and health insurance.
  • 6.Retirement insurance.
  • 7.Subsistence and living minimum levels.Material poverty.State social welfare.
  • 8.Social care.
  • 9.Socio-legal minimum.
  • 10.Act No. 108/2006 Sb., on Social Services, as amended; social and legislative basis.
  • 11.Act No. 108/2006 Sb., on Social Services, as amended; content.
  • 12.Act no. 329/2011 Coll., on the provision of benefits to people with disabilities and amending related laws, as amended.Social reform, 2012.
Literature
    required literature
  • KAHOUN, V. a kolektiv. Sociální zabezpečení. Vybrané kapitoly. Praha: Triton, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7387-733-0. info
  • KRÁLOVÁ, J., RÁŽOVÁ, E. Sociální služby a příspěvek na péči. aktualizované a přepracované vydání. Olomouc: An, 2012. ISBN 978-80-7263-748-5. info
  • MATOUŠEK, O. a kol. Metody a řízení sociální práce. Praha: Portál, 2013. ISBN 978-80-262-0213-4. info
  • NOVOSAD, L. Poradenství pro osoby se zdravotním a sociálním znevýhodněním. Praha: Portál, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7367-509-7. info
  • PILÁT, Miroslav. Poradenství v sociální práci. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, Fakulta veřejných politik v Opavě, 2017. Elektronická studijní opora.
    recommended literature
  • KOPŘIVA, Karel. Lidský vztah jako součást profese. Praha: Portál, 2016. ISBN 978-80-262-1147-1.
  • Krebs, V. a kol. Sociální politika. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7478-921-2. info
  • PILÁT, Miroslav. Social reform 2012 i the Czech Republic-chosen aspects. In ŽILOVÁ, Anna, Alena NOVOTNÁ, Venus M. JOSEPH & al. European and global contexts of poverty in the period of social and demographic transformations of the society. Milano: EDUCatt, 2014, p. 179-188, 208 pp. ISBN 978-88-6780-072-8. info
  • SCHNEIDEROVÁ, A. Základy poradenství. 1. vydání. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita,, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7368-523-2. info
    not specified
  • Zákon č. 117/1995 Sb., o státní sociální podpoře, ve znění pozdějších předpisů.
  • Zákon č. 108/2006 Sb., o sociálních službách, ve znění pozdějších předpisů.
  • Zákon č. 110/2006 Sb., o životním a existenčním minimu, ve znění pozdějších předpisů.
  • Zákon č. 111/2006 Sb., o pomoci v hmotné nouzi, ve znění pozdějších předpisů.
  • Zákon č. 329/2011 Sb., o poskytování dávek osobám se zdravotním postižením a o změně souvisejících zákonů, ve znění pozdějších předpisů.
Assessment methods
Elaboration of a term paper, its presentation, written exam

Elaboration of a term paper, compulsory attendance at 80 % of the seminars at least.Students will analyse the chosen social situation in the scope of at least 7 standard pages.They will include the selected social situation into the social security system and propose a solution to this situation.Students will submit their paper two weeks before the credit week at the latest so that the instructor has the opportunity to evaluate it and possibly return it for a rewrite, by e-mail.Students will be able to continuously consult the topics studied individually or in teams, via e-mail, or in consultations upon request.The elaborated topic is a prerequisite for admission to the exam. Written examination, the course also includes seminars that deal with further and deeper analysis of problems which follow lecture topics.Students form groups (2-3), each characterized by a selected target group of clients - counselling area.Students prepare an analysis of selected social situation which they will present at the seminar.They will describe the advantages and disadvantages of working with this client group - counselling area and system of benefits and services for the group - counselling area.The presentation includes model work with a client, the modelling will be reflected in the group. The elaborated and presented topic is a prerequisite for admission to the exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
The instructor can be contacted after the training, during their office hours (see News) or via e-mail.Students will use the e-portal to submit their term papers, correspondence assignments, to study and self-evaluate.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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