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Perception of personal experience with smoking cessation in relationship to the therapy of primary addiction: qualitative reseach among clients of therapeutic communities
Sovová, Adéla ; Radimecký, Josef (advisor) ; Štěpánková, Lenka (referee)
BACKGROUND - This thesis works on the assumption that one's own experience with smoking cessation along with the habit-breaking patterns that one gains from this experience, might have a positive influence on addiction treatment. It is assumed that these patterns help client with the overall treatment, the relapse prevention, motivation issues and continued abstinence. AIMS - The aim of this thesis is to investigate the effect of smoking cessation experience and the role it plays in the therapeutic community. I also focused my research on the clients' perception of the tobacco using in relation to their health, life and complete abstinence concept. METHODS - Both current smokers and ex-smokers as well as clients of two therapeutic communities were subjected to qualitative analysis. Purposive sampling method was used to select the respondents for semi-structured interview. Content analysis and partly interpretative phenomenological analysis were used to process the collected data. RESULTS - Based on the research, respondents perceive smoking negatively in relation to their health. They are aware of the tobacco dependence potential, however they do not include the issue into complete abstinence. The assumption that respondents utilize their smoking cessation experience in addiction treatment was in...
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Application and Verification of a Self-defence Program for Patients in a Psychiatric Hospital
Vopátek, Jan ; Čadová, Libuše (advisor) ; Stich, Jaroslav (referee)
Title: Application and Verification of a Self-defence Program for Patients in a Psychiatric Hospital Objectives: The aim of this thesis is application of a self-defence program, created in a bachelor thesis, during an addiction treatment in Červený Dvůr, a psychiatric hospital. The thesis surveys the suitability of the educational program during addiction treatment, verification of acquired motoric skills and its possible integration in patients' free time, recommendation of the exercise to friends, and last but not least it surveys a possible interest in the program in other psychiatric hospitals. Methods: There are several methods used in the thesis. Content analysis is used for working with literature, interview is used in the conversation held with the department head and the custodian. Observation is used for watching the participants doing the exercise. Comparing is used for evaluation of the final outputs. Opinion poll is used for finding the asset of the educational program. Basic statistic methods are used for evaluating the answers in the opinion polls. Results: The suitability of the program was confirmed by two department heads in two psychiatric hospitals which are focused on addiction treatment. An interest in follow-up self-defence or martial arts exercise was found out in the...
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Influence of ex-user's experience on therapeutic work with clients in addiction treatment: a qualitative study
Kolitsch, Karel ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Libra, Jiří (referee)
In this thesis I deal with the influence of personal lived experience of ex-users on their therapeutic work with the clients in addiction treatment. The personal experience in this case is meant an experience with the substance abuse or playing on the slot machines which led to addiction. For this work it is also important the personal experience of following treatment of addictive behavior by ex-uers themself. In the theoretical part I address the former career of ex-user in addiction services, the role of ex-user in the therapeutic team, the motivation of ex-user to work with addicted clients, but also the opportunities of his education and anchoring the work of ex-user in the Standards of services for drug users and pathological players. As the goal of the practical part I set myself to describe how the ex-user's own experiences with addiction and its treatment participate when working with clients. Besides this main objective I am also dealing with ex-user's motivation for his work, the potential risks, the impact of education on the work of ex-users and also the relationship between ex- user and his colleagues. To answer the research questions I used a semi-structured interview. To analyze the text I used the techniques of text colouring and encoding, allowing the final analysis,...
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Awareness of clients of selected K-centre of addiction treatment options
Filipovská, Marie ; Váchová, Alena (advisor) ; Kovaříková, Miroslava (referee)
This bachelor thesis named Awareness of clients of selected K-centre of addiction treatment options in theoretical part deals with a phenomenon of drug addiction. It describes the definition of pathological addiction, models of dependence, types of drugs and treatment options in the Czech Republic. The research part seeks to answer the research goals and assumptions of respondents of selected K-centre. The main aim of the research part is to find out specific information about clients of selected K-centre and to explore their drug experiences. Sub-goals tend to indentify a socio- demographic data about clients of K-centre and their awareness of treatment options of drug abuse. The last sub-goal tries to find out information about clients drug dependence treatment. For a data collection was used a structured questionnaire which contained 10 closed or semi-closed questions. The questionnaire survey was carried out within one working week in selected contact centre in Prague. There were collected answers from 24 respondents (16 men and 8 women). The research survey shows that awareness of clients of selected K-centre of addiction treatment options is very high. It was also found that the majority of respondents is treating or was treated for their addiction dependence (except treatment in K-centre)....
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Working with a family in the process of addiction treatment within therapeutic community
Bucharová, Lenka ; Šotolová, Eva (advisor) ; Mlčková, Marie (referee)
Use of mind-altering substances may result in an array of adverse, especially health and social, consequences for drug users as well as for their close persons. Help to solve mentioned problems provide various types of drug services. The vast majority of drug services in past did not take into account the fact that relatives might suffer due to drug use of their family member too and thus they also might need specific professional help. The aim of this work is to capture and describe the process of therapy with regard to the perception and experience of the close persons of clients of therapeutic community. In order to adequately understand the situations, we must first determine what elements constitute them. The work is based on a qualitative approach and research group consists of close persons of clients of the therapeutic community WHITE LIGHT I. The results show that it is possible, based on the analysis of data, to define each stage of the therapeutic process from the perspective of family members and name them according to chronology and important characteristic. The inclusion of persons close to drug users into treatment process contributes significantly to improvement of their lives and relationships quality. Findings bring into practise the ideas for therapeutic teams and help to improve...
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Role of glutamatergic transmission in mechanisms of addiction to morphine.
Moutelíková, Karolína ; Hejnová, Lucie (advisor) ; Červená, Kateřina (referee)
Drugs are used by mankind since ancient times. One group of these substances are opioids. Opioids have antinociceptive effects and can induce euphoria and relaxation as well. A chronic usage of opioids can lead to a development of drug addiction and phenomens like tolerance and sensitization. One of the most used opioids in medicine is morphine. Morphine is isolated from opium of poppy (Papaver somniferum). Direct effect of morphine is mediated via activation of μ- opioid receptors and their signal cascade. It was implicated that the usage of morphine affects other neurotransmmiter systems in the brain and these neurotransmmiter systems play a signifikant role in the development of addiction and other phenomena. One of these systems is an important excitatory brain system - glutamergic system. This bacherol thesis focuses on interrelationship between opioid and glutamatergic systems during addiction.There were described changes in a composition of glutame ionotropic receptors and changes in their expression as well as in expression of metabotropic glutamate receptors. These changes differ in various parts of the brain and in diverse stages of addiction on morphine too. In spite of all diferences, the results of studies indicate that glutamatergic receptors play a significant role in the development...
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Needs of people addicted to drugs to keep succesfull abstinence in aftercare
Eliášová, Barbora ; Havránková, Olga (advisor) ; Večerka, Kazimír (referee)
The topic Needs of people addicted to drugs and alcohol to maintain succesful abstinence in aftercare was chosen. Aftercare is an important part of addiction treatment, but often overlooked and unused. The aim is to clarify the needs of abstinent persons addicted to alcohol and other non-alcohol drugs and their subsequent comparison. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part deals with the development of addiction, its diagnosis, description of drugs and treatments options. Chapters dealing with treatment are thoroughly discussed because of the individual usage during the treatment of addiction. Aftecare of addicted people and problems with relapse take place in this part of work. The second part deals with research focused on identifying the needs of addicted people to drugs and alcohol to maintain successful abstinence and their subsequent comparison. Clarifying of these needs can serve as a recommendation to other abstaining people or as a support to services in the system of aftercare to successful abstinence nowadays. KEYWORDS Addiction, addictive substances, drug addiction treatment, abstinence, relapse, aftercare for drug and alcohol rehab
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Process of treatment in therapeutic community WHITE LIGHT I. from clients perspective
Zim, Martin ; Radimecký, Josef (advisor) ; Reichelová, Lenka (referee)
In the thesis I focused on a process of residential treatment in a therapeutic community. Such a process is mostly divided into four stages in all therapeutic communities in the CR where different needs and tasks are required from clients. The procedure in the treatment process is evaluated by the group as well as by staff. The fulfillment of criteria in each phase is a condition needed for shifting the clients in the treatment process towards successful completion of treatment. These phases are clearly defined by therapists and clients are acquainted with them through the operating manual. The aim of the thesis is to describe the process of treatment and common elements with regard to how it is perceived and experienced by the clients during the treatment in the therapeutic community WHITE LIGHT I. Using methods of prospective study helps to describe the process of treatment and then divide it according to the common elements into ,,phases" as they are perceived by the clients themselves, and compare them with formally stated phases of treatment in the TC. The thesis is based on a qualitative approach. Data collection was conducted through prospective monitoring, ie. a different method from the previous research, which was focused retrospectively. In addition, the research used other sources of...
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Occupational therapy application in addiction treatment
Urbancová, Jana ; Šotolová, Eva (advisor) ; Mlčková, Marie (referee)
The Bachelor thesis: "Occupational therapy application in addition treatment" deals with medium-therm institucional treatment of dependants. The work contains justification of occupational therapy application in addition treatment. The theoretical part is devided to the two points. The part which deals with the addiction defines the main attributes of addiction, cause of addiction and addiction kinds. It defines in the organization of care for persons with addiction the treatment program for this target group with an emphasis on medium-term inpatient treatment, mentions phase of this treatment, concepts such as detoxification, dual diagnosis and combined therapy. It sets occupational therapy as part of treatment for people with addiction. The theoretical part is defined occupational therapy, defined its objectives, target groups, forms, techniques and describes the formation of the occupational therapy programme. The practical part is to specify the treatment of people with addiction at a particular facility with emphasis to the use of occupational therapy in this treatment. The practical part is the occupational therapy program for the target group, which focuses on developing skills in planning leisure time, developing social relationships, communication, coping skills, abilities patience,...
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