Předmět Psychological perspectives on People and Environment (HEN597)

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Cíl

The course provides basic understanding of health and environmental psychology, including historical perspectives and the status of the field today. In addition, it seeks to facilitate increased understanding and improvement of people – environment relations and to make psychology more relevant to everyday life situations. The human response to the natural environment will be particularly focused upon, primarily through theoretical models from evolutionary psychology. Environmental aesthetics from a psychological perspective will also be focused upon.Aims: Both theoretical and applied. The students will gain basic insights into areas such as environmental perception and cognition, personality and environment, personal space, territoriality, crowding, housing issues, urban environmental psychology, physical and psychological work environments, as well as therapeutic interventions such as “Green care” and preventive strategies related to lifestyle diseases

Osnova

The course is organised in four major sections:1. A series of lectures focusing on an Introduction to Environmental Psychology and to a number of major themes within the field: Environmental perception and cognition, environmental attitudes and appraisals, environmental personality, crowding, privacy, urban issues, workplace environmental psychology, natural environmental psychology and sustainable development issues. This section is mainly based on Robert Giffords (2007) textbook Environmental psychology Principles and Practice.Between lectures the students will be working with lab exercises developed by prof. Gifford between lectures. The labs provide a first experience with research within the field of environmental psychology.2. A series of lectures on Mental Health and the Built Environment based on the book by David Halpern (1995) with the same title.3. A seminar series focusing on Restorative Environments. The readings forthe seminars is found in the course packet, a collection of scientific journal articles mainlyfocusing on the effects of nature on health and well-being. The class will be divided in twogroups (seminar group 1 and seminar group 2). Each seminar session will be devoted to athorough examination of two papers (first half of the session) and discussion and researchworkshop based on the presentation (second half of the session) In advance of each seminar agroup of students will be assigned the responsibility of preparing a presentation of the papers.The presentations should focus upon research questions, design, findings and on possiblefurther research, both theoretical or and empirical. The latter point may be particularly usefulfor preparation of the bachelor thesis during the spring semester. The seminars may serve as aworkshop for the development of research design inspired by the paper presentations. Thesedesigns may provide the basis for thesis work, either in the lab or in the field.4. Preparation of the project paper, which also is a requirement for the final examination. A set of questions/themes will be provided to aid in the process of selecting theme and purpose for the paper. The questions will also serve as preparations for the final examination. The paper should be written in English. Further requirements will be provided later.

Garant

doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.

Vyučující

Einar Strumsedoc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.