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Spirituality and people with learning disabilities - searching for the meaning of life
Štromerová, Markéta ; Mužáková, Monika (advisor) ; Durdilová, Lucie (referee)
The Master thesis here presented opens the theme of spirituality and its role in the lives of people with learning disabilities. Its subtitle "searching for meaning of life" shows that the term spirituality contains a variety of different possibilities which lead to the feeling of fulfilment, satisfaction, joy etc. Feelings which last not only for a moment, but stay present despite the disabilities the everyday life may bring. The community of l'Arche represents one of the places where the life of people with learning disabilities together with people without this type of handicap is possible and where they all can perceive the uniqueness and enrichment of their common life. Moreover, this lived experience very often answers the question for the meaning of life. The aim of this Master thesis is to discover the specificity or "the spirit" of the community of l'Arche, mainly by the words of its members with learning disabilities. For this reason, a participatory research has been chosen as a research method.
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Spirituality and people with learning disabilities - searching for the meaning of life
Štromerová, Markéta ; Mužáková, Monika (advisor) ; Durdilová, Lucie (referee)
The Master thesis here presented opens the theme of spirituality and its role in the lives of people with learning disabilities. Its subtitle "searching for meaning of life" shows that the term spirituality contains a variety of different possibilities which lead to the feeling of fulfilment, satisfaction, joy etc. Feelings which last not only for a moment, but stay present despite the disabilities the everyday life may bring. The community of l'Arche represents one of the places where the life of people with learning disabilities together with people without this type of handicap is possible and where they all can perceive the uniqueness and enrichment of their common life. Moreover, this lived experience very often answers the question for the meaning of life. The aim of this Master thesis is to discover the specificity or "the spirit" of the community of l'Arche, mainly by the words of its members with learning disabilities. For this reason, a participatory research has been chosen as a research method.
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Perception of dying, death and demise in the relationship of a person with learning disability
Štromerová, Markéta ; Zemková, Jaroslava (referee) ; Šiška, Jan (advisor)
Bachelor thesis concentrates on the issue of dying and death and its perception in the society. It specifically aims to emphasise its importance in relation to people with learning disabilities. General assumption is that these people could lack the possibilities to learn about usual events linked with the end of a human life. Therefore, they may completely depend on the decisions of the intact environment. However, a study was realised by the author of this thesis in two different residential living placements for people with learning disabilities in order to compare the assumption mentioned with the reality. Meanwhile, suggestions of possible intervention led by mental health professionals as well as several ideas for further research in this field are presented as the second important point of the Bachelor thesis.
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