Jarosław Rychlik PhD
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Doctor of social sciences in psychology. He completed his MA studies at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Opole and then doctoral studies at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of the University of Silesia. He also completed a course in human resources management run by the Poznan University of Social Sciences. He started working in the Prison Service in 2006 in the Prison in Racibórz. He was associated with this unit for over 14 years. There he was entrusted with the position of psychologist of the penitentiary department and then of the therapeutic department for convicts with non-psychotic mental disorders or mental retardation. Since 2016, he has served as a manager of the department. During this time he has acquired a range of professional experience regarding the role of a psychologist in a penitentiary unit. He has been serving as an assistant professor at the Academy of Justice since August 2020. As part of his duties, he carries out research projects and teaching activities and participates in the organisational activities of the Academy.
His research interests include constructive thinking, structural and functional aspects of meaning in life, coping with stress and penitentiary psychology. He has co-authored several publications on, among others, the problem of the functioning of inmates in prison conditions. He has participated in many scientific conferences presenting the results of his research and has been appointed as a member of discussion panels.
Scientific achievements
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Perceptions of the declining quality of higher education in the selected SEE countries
Journal of International Studies 2020, 13(4) -
The role of childhood and current emotional experiences in the formation of an individual’s constructive and destructive belief syndromes.
Beliefs in the lives of individuals, groups, communities. Warsaw: "ACADEMICA" SWPS University Press; 2009, pp. 49–65. -
The role of past emotional experiences and current attachment styles and event experience in adolescents’ formation of beliefs about human nature.
Reality, persuasiveness, falsifiability. Katowice: WW Printing house ; 2009, pp. 290–299. -
Changes in sense of identity in imprisoned people.
aces of identity: an interdisciplinary perspective. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskiej Szkoły Wyższej; 2008, pp. 203–210. -
The Feeling of Meaning in Life in Men Confined in Prison and the Degree of Their Approval towards Machiavelli Views
Quality of Life - Different Perspectives. Kraków: Publishing house Impuls; 2008, pp. 63-84. -
Emotional-cognitive predispositions of young politicians for healthy politics
Challenges and threats to democracy in Poland in view of the 2005 elections. Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego; 2006, pp. 173–182.
Teaching achievements
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Conducting classes entitled “Selected penitentiary issues in the context of functioning of the mediation procedures” as an element of the “Postgraduate Studies on Mediation and Restorative Justice” carried out within the framework of the project “Pilotage of the program implementing the idea of restorative justice in the territory of the District Inspectorate of Prison Service in Lublin”
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Providing training to first responders on methodological and ethical aspects of conducting questionnaire surveys for the Ministry of Justice’s DFS.
Organisational achievements
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Member of the team for the affairs of the second cycle degree programme at the Academy of Justice
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Member of the working group established by the Ministry of Justice preparing a research project on the evaluation of the provisions of the Act on amending the Civil Procedure Code and certain other acts (Journal of Laws of 2020, item 956).
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As part of the Academy of Justice, a coordinator of a research project concerning the evaluation of the provisions of the Act on amending the Civil Procedure Code and certain other acts (Journal of Laws of 2020, item 956).
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Collaboration in the implementation of a study on the adaptation of the cognitive-behavioural psycho-corrective technique Problem Solving.
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ENAP “Seminar on ethics and deontology in prison and probation” (15–19 March 2021), online paper: The reaction of the Polish prison system to ethical and pragmatic aspects related to the goals of implementing the penalty of imprisonment.
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Scientific conference entitled “Human rights in conditions of penitentiary isolation” (22 November 2018), WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza, a member of the panel discussion entitled “Human rights versus the rights of a patient deprived of liberty”
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International scientific conference entitled “Cultural, social and ethical conditions of business, management and security” (24 November 2017), State University of Applied Sciences in Racibórz, a member of a panel discussion on “new dimensions of national security”
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Scientific conference entitled “Present dangers in the education of children and youth” (11–12 November 2008), University of Silesia in Katowice, paper: Youth coping resources.
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Scientific conference entitled “The quality of life of the modern man” (24–25 May 2007), University of Opole, paper: Structural changes in an individual’s identity following incarceration.
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Scientific conference entitled “Social determinants of identity” (14–15 May 2007), Lower Silesian School of Higher Education in Wroclaw, paper: Negative vs positive conception of reality and sense of meaning in life in male prisoners.
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Polish National Scientific Conference entitled “Social beliefs and quality of life” (16–18 November 2007), SWPS University in Warsaw, paper: The role of childhood and current emotional experiences in the formation of constructive and destructive belief syndromes in adults with different life experiences.
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3rd Forum on Social Rehabilitation in Toruń (18 November 2007). Conference speech: Machiavellianism and the sense of meaning in life on the example of recidivist prisoners.
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Scientific conference entitled “Challenges and threats to democracy in Poland in the face of parliamentary and presidential elections 2005” (01–02 June 2005), University of Opole, paper: Features of automatic thinking versus manipulative tendencies in adolescents in politics.
