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Eating disorders in females
TESKOVÁ, Veronika Michaela
The thesis focuses on the issue of anorexia nervosa and multifactorial influences on the development and course of this disorder in women. Anorexia nervosa is a serious mental illness that is influenced by many factors such as social, familial and psychological. The analysis of these factors is crucial for a deeper understanding of this disorder and a prerequisite for designing adequate comprehensive treatment. This thesis analyses each of these factors and presents therapeutic approaches to anorexia nervosa and ways of treating it. The research is based on semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions with female respondents suffering from anorexia nervosa.
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Love as a part of a helping relationship in social work
PALOCHOVÁ, Markéta
The diploma thesis deals with the question of the compatibility of love and professional relationship between a social worker and a client with mental illness. It also explores the possible benefits, but also the potential risks that love can bring to the professional relationship. It distinguishes between different types of love and explores their possible application in social work with the target group. Love and the professional helping relationship between the social worker and the client, not only with mental illness, are complementary. The benefit of including aspects of love in the professional relationship can be the strengthening of mutual trust, which brings a positive effect in the process of achieving the goals of social work. The thesis is theoretical.
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Role of social worker - challenges and limits of work
Koutná, Jolana ; Vrzáček, Petr (advisor) ; Lejsal, Matěj (referee)
1 Abstract The diploma thesis "The role of a social worker in a psychiatric hospital - challenges and limits of work" deals with the profession of a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. The diploma thesis normally consists of a theoretical and an empirical part. The theoretical part is focused on mental illness, the characteristics of serious mental illness, the profession of a social worker working in a psychiatric hospital, multidisciplinary cooperation, the specifics of working with the mentally ill, the reform of psychiatric care and the organization of inpatient psychiatric care in the Czech Republic. In the empirical part, the qualitative research methodology is described and the data, which are the result of semi-structured interviews with social workers and their clients, are interpreted. At the end of the thesis, the main research question is answered, recommendations for practice and proposals for further research are included. Keywords Social worker, social work, healthcare, psychiatric care, mental illness, psychiatric care reform, the role of social worker, multidisciplinary team
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Framing of mental illness in selected Czech media
Lacinová, Kristýna ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
This thesis focuses on the framing of mental illness in the Czech media. It defines the concept of framing and presents the characteristics, process and effects of framing. Simultaneously, the thesis discusses the concept of mental illness and its categorisation in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). The focus is on the state of mental illness in the Czech Republic. Subsequently, prominent research papers dealing with the framing of mental illness are presented. The aim of the quantitative content analysis of this thesis is to find out how Czech daily newspapers framed mental illness in the years 2018, 2020, 2022. The analysis focuses on which illnesses are mentioned, how the mentally ill are presented, how the media frame the causes and solutions of mental illness, and which sources journalists quote. The results show that stigmatising stories are the most common and that journalists tend to use episodic framing. The most cited illnesses were depression and drug addiction, and very often journalists did not specify the exact diagnosis at all.
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Weight development in obese patients with mental illness
Starý, Kilián ; Kalinová, Nelly (advisor) ; Žůrková, Pavla (referee)
Introduction: Obesity and mental illness are serious health issues whose worldwide prevalence has been increasing in recent years. In particular, depression and anxiety can impair the capacity of obese patients to reduce weight, which is a necessary step in reducing the risk of life-threatening complications of obesity. Objectives: The main objective of this study was to investigate the effect of baseline mental illness on weight development. For this purpose, a group of obese patients with either depression or anxious- depressive syndrome was selected. Relative change in weight over a 1-year period was selected as the main variable for comparison. One secondary objective was to compare outcomes in patients with psychiatric comorbidity by diagnosis. The second one was to assess the interaction between mental illness and female sex as predictors of poor weight loss outcomes. Methods: Data was collected in the Obesitology centre at the III. internal clinic - endocrinology and metabolism, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague. The research group (n=27) was selected from patients who underwent reduction hospitalisation between 2014 and 2021. The same was true for the control group (n=27) of obese patients without a psychiatric diagnosis. For all patients,...
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Influence of Social Work on Quality of Life of Clients with Mental Disorders
KVĚCHOVÁ, Pavlína
Presented bachelor thesis concerns itself with the influence of social work on the quality of life of clients with mental illness. In the theoretical part we define key terminology related to the thesis. It is primarily definition of mental illness, preceded by basic terminology of health, illness, mental health and mental illness, and further by definition and explanation of quality of life and related concepts like personal well-being and general satisfaction with life. The goal of this bachelor thesis is to map the influence of specific aspects of social work on the quality of life of clients with mental illness. To reach the goal, quantitative type of research is employed, together with quantitative research strategy. As the method of interviewing and data gathering technique two standardized questionnaires were used, complemented by one personal non-standardized questionnaire in which socio-demographic data and cooperation with experts were secured. Theory testing was done via pivot table using statistical method known as Pair T-test with help of IBM SPSS Statistics programme. The results of this research have confirmed that the influence of social work on the quality of life of clients with mental illness is a significant and important intervention that significantly influences the general level of quality of life. The tested theory is therefore confirmed. The discussion summarizes reached results and compares them with reference books that concern themselves with the topic of influence of social services on the quality of life of a client with mental illness. The end of the thesis mentions what benefit can this work bring and its possible practical application.
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Possibilities of Occupational therapy in sheltered housing for people with mental disability and psychiatric disorders
Hlaváčková, Pavlína ; Pluhaříková-Pomajzlová, Jana (advisor) ; Rodová, Zuzana (referee)
BACHELOR THESIS ABSTRACT Name, Surname: Pavlína Hlaváčková Supervizor: Mgr. Jana Pluhaříková Pomajzlová Title: Possibilities of occupational therapy in sheltered housing for people with mental disability and psychiatric disorders Abstract: The bachelor thesis focuses on the mapping and possibilities of occupational therapy in the social service of sheltered housing for people with mental disabilities and mental illnesses. Such issues of mentally ill or intellectually disabled people are described in detail in the theoretical part. Some problem areas of these groups are presented as well as potential of occupational therapy interventions. The current reform of psychiatric care, which is supposed to bring about an improvement of psychiatric care and deinstitutionalization, is being addressed. Stigmatisation and overlooking by society is also a common theme of people with mental and psychiatric illnesses. Finally, a sheltered housing service is presented, especially for the above- mentioned groups. The practical part deals with the results of a questionnaire survey that was mapping occupational therapy in sheltered housing for people with mental and psychiatric illness in the Czech Republic. On the basis of these results, the studied literature and the acquired practice, a proposal of possibilities for...
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Use of the queistionnaire The stress coping style (SVF 78) in military
LAURINOVÁ, Eliška
The bachelor thesis deals with stress management in the military environment. The bachelor thesis mentions various concepts that contribute to the resilience of the individual. I have used a quantitative study for my research that aims to compare soldiers with the norms of the standardized questionnaire SVF-78 in selected subscales and compare two research sets of soldiers, different ages, and determine whether the length of service shares the rate of use of positive strategy.
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Respect to human dignity as a baseline of the quality of social work with people with mental illness
PODLIPNÁ, Martina
The thesis deals with the quality of mental health care, key aspect of which is the respect of human dignity. The first part characterizes the ethical and legal basis of human dignity. Further, it summarizes the ethical principles regarding human dignity formulated in codes of ethics of the particular professions represented in a multidisciplinary team providing services to people with mental illness. The next part describes selected approaches to this target group - the medical and rehabilitation models of treatment in particular. After that, the recovery approach is introduced. Recovery from mental illness is approached as a psychological process, in which people strive for a dignified life. This process has four fluid stages - hope, empowerment, self-responsibility and having a meaningful role in life. The final part discusses the contributions and difficulties of recovery approach in connection with dignity of people with mental illness. This approach fulfils the fundamental requirement of quality of social work, which is the respect to human dignity. The potential difficulties do not come from the principles of the recovery approach, but from its possible wrong implementation.
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