Provides
education in Bachelor’s study programmes Social Pathology and Prevention and
Educational Care for the Elderly. It primarily focused on the field of
prevention of socio-pathological phenomena.
The Institute
cooperates with the Czech Police, with the Psychiatric Hospital in Opava, the
Opava Charity, the Children's Centre Cloverleaf (Čtyřlístek) in Opava, the
public benefit NGO Elim Opava, and a number of primary schools and other
organizations.
As part of its activity, the Institute solves scientific applied research projects, for example, Sociological Monitoring of Educational Inputs and Outputs in Children and Pupils with Special Needs in the Czech Republic, or the project Professional Readiness of Primary School Teachers in the Area of Risky Behaviour and Its Prevention in the Moravian-Silesian Region. Every year since 2007, the Institute and its University workplace, the Cloverleaf Children's Centre, organize a conference focused on the issues of the contemporary family and regularly since 2002, the lecture series "The Human Under the Magnifying Glass of Social Disciplines" is held 4 times a year.
Head of the Institute: doc. PhDr. Jitka Skopalová, Ph.D.,
e-mail: jitka.skopalova@fvp.slu.cz , tel: +420 553 684 151
Institute´s Office: Bezručovo nám. 885/14, 746 01 Opava
contact person: Bc. Eva Sladká, e-mail: eva.sladka@fvp.slu.cz, tel: +420 553 684 150
webpage: https://www.slu.cz/fvp/cz/uppvonas