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The mentally ill person and his life in society
FIALKOVÁ, Kateřina
This thesis deals with a mentally ill person and his life in the society. Its aim is to characterize the difficulties of a mentally ill person (whether due to the manifestations of the disease itself or stigmatization) and the role of a social worker. It's dealing with the definition of mental illness and with the issue of stigmatization in various areas of life within the society such as family and friends, work life, media, and so on. A social worker is often an important part of the life of the mentally ill, that's why there is also a chapter dedicated to his role and activities. The target group of mentally ill stands between social and health care and therefore the topics of community care and reform of psychiatric care appear in this thesis. Part of the work includes interviews with the ill, which should complement the work with a real view of their lives, thus contributing to the stated goal.
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Stigmatization of mentally ill from the depression and anxiety patients' point of view
Štěpánková, Tereza ; Horák, Vít (advisor) ; Kabele, Jiří (referee)
The thesis is a study of mentally ill patients with depression and anxiety and their view on stigmatization in contemporary czech society. The thesis introduces the problematice in the context of current political precautions and research including comparison with abroad studies. It points out the current state of psychiatric care in the Czech republic and destigmatizing activities which aim to change this state. Based on ten interviews with patients with diagnosed depression or anxiety, the thesis shows that the stigmatization in case of these patients is not seen in such nature, as defined by literature. The participants experience large scale of negative reactions, however many of them do not meet definitions of stigmatizing attitudes. Their experience with stigma is different in different parts of their life, partly based on whether the people close to them have a previous experience with mental illness or not. The fear of stigmatization is present more often than the stigmatization itself. The participants point out the low awareness of the public considering the stigmatization of mental illness, however they do not participate in destigmatizing activities in any way. Interesting finding was fear of establishing a family, presented by some of the female participants and very frequent use of...
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Ethical dimension of stigma and discrimination of people with psychotic disease and impact of social work at its alleviation.
KŘISTKOVÁ, Lucie
The thesis deals with the problem of discrimination and stigmatization of people with a psychotic illness, its ethical as well as legal dimension and the specificity of social work with this target group. The thesis consists of five chapters. In chapter I. I briefly define health and illness in general and the specifics of mental health and mental disorders. In chapter II. I describe psychotic illness in general i.e. formation, symptoms and manifestation, treatment and I also shortly introduce particular types of psychotic illnesses. In chapter III. I specialize in the application of ethics in social work and in ethical and legal problems in psychiatry. Chapter IV. deals with the specifics of discrimination and stigmatization of people with a psychotic illness. I present the most frequent areas in which discrimination occurs, consequences which are caused by discrimination and stigmatization, activities leading to their moderation and legal standards that are supposed to aim at the prevention of discrimination and ensure the protection of rights for mentally ill people. I ethically reflect these issues. Chapter IV. is concerned with the specifics of social work with people suffering from a psychotic illness. I describe how to work with such a target group, I introduce methods of social work helping clients with a psychotic illness to function socially, to integrate into the society and reduce the impact of stigmatization and discrimination.
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Guardianship in the Czech Republic
Dušková, Karina ; Krahulcová, Beáta (advisor) ; Válková, Monika (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with guardianship for people with mental illness. The tehoretical part is divided into six chapters, where the concept of mental disorder is defined within various documents. Furthermore the process of stigmatization, both from the family and the health care professionals, is also discussed here as self - esteem as a serious consequence of society's access to mental illness. The student also mentioned the process of providing psychiatric care, outlined the reform of psychatric care as a significant milestone in health care. A greta part of the theory consits od a complete description of a guardianship and self - administration. The last chapter focuses on social work with people with mental illnesss. The practical part aims to find out how the guardianship system for people with mental disorders works and how custodians loom at guardianship. The student used qualitative surveys ans semi - structured interviews. Using open encoding , several categories were identified and then responded to the main research question.
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Social acceptability of smoking and unintended consequences of tobacco control in the Czech Republic
Pešková, Olga ; Nekola, Martin (advisor) ; Tušková, Eva (referee)
The diploma thesis "Social acceptability of smoking and unintended consequences of tobacco control in the Czech Republic" offers an understanding of the question whether the smokers in the Czech Republic are stigmatized in connection with denormalization strategies, whether and how public policies contribute to them and what their unintended negative consequences on the health of citizens in various forms. Research from a semi-structured in- depth interview with smokers revealed that they perceive that smoking is neither normal nor modern. While there was no stigmatization among respondents, as demonstrated abroad, some elements suggesting stigmatization were present. Some smokers feel that they are negatively perceived by the neighborhood, as manifested by their relatives, as well as negative verbal and nonverbal expressions from the wider environment. The negative consequences of stigmatization in respondents to this research, unlike foreign experiences, did not show up in the social and health spheres and did not imply a significant change in cigarette consumption of a given smoker. The influence of public policies on stigmatization of smokers has also not significantly materialized in this research.
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Denormalisation of smoking and stigmatization of smokers in the Czech republic
Varyš, Martin ; Nekola, Martin (advisor) ; Hejzlarová, Eva (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with process of denormalization of smoking and possible unintended, negative consequences as stigmatization of smokers. The phenomenon of denormalization of smoking is common for health policy of the vast majority of Western a European states, included Czech republic, over the last decades. It monitors, among other things, reducing the social acceptability of smoking and reducing the number of smokers. In my work, I first examine the process, impacts and tools of these strategies, and then present the theory of stigmatization of smokers, which resonates in recent years in a professional discussion abroad. This theory presents the potential risks associated with creating an atmosphere of social unacceptability of smoking that can lead to a loss of effectiveness of similar measures and a marked deterioration in the life situation of smokers. Qualitative reasearch on a group of 15 respondents examines the perception of social atmposhere in the aproach to smoking, the perception of adopted policy measures and experience with reactions of others, from the point of view of smokers. By analyzing the data then I look for possible negative consequences in the form of stigmatization symptoms of smokers. To recognize them, apart from the supposed concept of stigmatization, the symptoms that...
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The Lighthouse (field work)
Horáková, Klára ; Kolářová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Ezzeddine, Petra (referee)
This work focuses on ethnographical research carried out in "Dům světla" (House of Light), which is an asylum house for HIV positive people. The aim of this work was to find out whether the employees and volunteers of this asylum house are affected by the stigmatization which is connected to AIDS disease and how they, in case of need, cope with it. Contemporary, concepts of "risk" groups and "risk" behaviour, shame, fear or "difference" are connected to this topic. That is why another aim of this thesis was to find out how volunteers perceive their work in Dům světla, what meanings it has to them and how they interpret this activity. For answering these questions I made a two-year lasting participative observation as volunteer there and carried out informal and in-depth interviews. In context of this thesis I also focused on shorter analysis of preventive materials published by The Czech AIDS Help Society to learn the concepts used by the organization itself.
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