Anna Ševčíková participated at the DIGI-net meeting in Krakow

25 Jul

Fast, playful and accurate: A new cognitive development test for preschoolers

Cognitive development in preschool is an important indicator of school readiness. It is in this period that possible developmental difficulties can be reliably detected and the necessary support can be given to the child in time. In the Czech environment, there is still no consensus on what tools to use for assessing school readiness, and the available methods are not very reliable and tend to be used rather unsystematically. Modern approaches such as adaptive testing and tablet-based administration are common abroad - and it is this gap that a team of Czech researchers, including Hynek Cígler from INPSY, decided to fill with a new tool called Brief Adaptive Nonverbal Test (BANT).

17 Jul

When the rules aren't enough: Why trust in social service workers often matters more than the system itself

Trust is crucial for the effective functioning of social services. The relationship between the social services worker and the client is not just technical - it is personal. Although research has long focused on the quality of relationships between service users and frontline workers, it often neglects how users perceive the very formal procedures in which these relationships take place and how this context influences the formation of those relationships. The new study, co-authored by our member Lenka Štěpánková, therefore focuses on how trust in social service workers is formed in the context of bureaucratic processes that determine access to support.

10 Jul

Health, Media and Sexuality team at the Behavioural Addictions Conference

Anna Ševčíková, Lukas Blinka and Andrea Stašek visited the 10th International Conference on Behavioral Addictions, which took place in Nantes, France. They have been attending this prestigious conference since its inception and have been able to contribute to the international debate on measuring, problematizing and addressing (excessive) use of the Internet, gaming and pornography.

8 Jul

The Center for Psychotherapy Research attended a SPR conference in Krakow

The membership of the Center for Psychotherapy Research visited the international conference of the Society of Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in Krakow at Jagiellonian University. Zbyněk Vybíral, Tomáš Řiháček, Michal Čevelíček, Adam Klocek, Petra Hubatka, Laura Jakalová and Ondra Fajstavr each presented their own papers at the conference. The overarching theme of the conference was Psychotherapy Research-Practice Integration: Who Are the Voices We Need to Hear? More information about the individual papers from the conference can be found at the link.