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Quality of life families mentally disabled persons
ABESKOVÁ, Žaneta
We usually view a family as small social group, with its basic characteristics to be mutual co-operation of all of its individual members. They are inter-connected by a variety of relations. As each member of a family is an individual and original personality, even the created family makes an individual, original and unrepeatable social organism. This applies to each different family {--} even to families with a handicapped child. This is to say, coexistence in one or another family has the same basic characteristics. When talking of life quality of people, we may have in mind different extent of perception of a man. It is possible to talk about life quality of an individual man as well as life quality of several people, e.g. life quality in a family. The aim of the graduation thesis was to find out the life quality of families living with an individual with slight mental disorder (IQ 50-60). To find out their difference from families without any mentally handicapped individual. All of that using the PedsQL questionnaire, which is a sufficient criterion for the problems fixation. Information needed for the graduation thesis processing was obtained on the basis of specialised material studies. Quantity research was performed to map the families life quality. Data collection was performed using the questioning method {--} the questionnaire method. The questionnaire designed by James Walter Varni Ph.D. was distributed to two groups {--} families with a slightly mentally handicapped individual (IQ 50-69) and families with children, without any mentally handicapped individual. The questionnaire contained 8 areas, in which the individual families could encounter any problem. The aim of the graduation thesis was fulfilled and the research confirmed the hypothesis that life quality of a family with slightly mentally handicapped individual with his/her intelligence quotient in the range of 50-60 points, differs from life quality of a family without any mentally handicapped individual. Some questions of the questionnaire provably demonstrated lower quality of life in families living with a slightly mentally handicapped individual.
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Investigation and Valuation of Families´ Functionality
ABESKOVÁ, Žaneta
This bachelor{\crq}s work is intended to focus on family, its functionality and values thereof. The work is aimed at assessing the validity and utility of the questionnaire according to the model created by Dunovsky that was designed to research into ways of family functionality. The theoretical part is trying to give us a closer look at and define the term ``family{\crqq}, and it primarily concerns with its key functions, especially those related to biological reproduction, economic function of the family, emotional and social-behavioral function, and their disorders thereof. It also demonstrates the historical development of the family, showing how the customary family structure had been gradually changing over the time, through which it was created; from the essentially monogamous family, resting on significant patriarchal controls, till its current modern family structures and forms of coexistence. The theoretical part also includes a description of building individual family relations and the significance of parental cohabitation for each child{\crq}s well-being. Due consideration has also been given to current problems that are affecting today{\crq}s Czech family. The practical part is then focused on the assessment, measured by the diagnostic Family Functionality Questionnaire by Dunovsky, which was performed in 25 families in the village of Velke Mezirici. The qualitative research method of questioning and the structured written questionnaire technique were employed with the aim of proving its validity and utility even nowadays, and thus trying to either confirm or refute the stipulated hypothesis that the Functionality Questionnaire by Dunovsky from 80´s needs to be updated. Obviously performing the goal of the work and confirming this hypothesis are sufficiently deep to provide the result of the research.
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