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Expectations of the Parents from the Provided Social Services in the Kaňka o.p.s. Tábor
BERANOVÁ, Diana
On the field of social services devoted to children with health handicaps and their families there have been recently established lots of new organizations. So it has been becoming more and more up to date topic. The aim of this thesis, named Expectations of parents about the social services provided by Kaňka o.p.s. Tábor, is to find out actual information whether the parents´ expectations identify with providing of these services. Within this thesis there has been defined the following research question: Do the parents´ expectations correspond with the social services provided? The thesis has been divided into the theoretical and empirical part. The theoretical part has been devoted to the sphere of family, the family surroundings which has been the foundation stone of the life of the children with health handicaps. It is also devoted to parents of children with health handicaps in context of social services provided, characteristic of these families according to the law No. 108/2006 about the social services. There has been specified the social service of early care, personal assistance and day care centre offered by the Kaňka o.p.s. Tábor institution. There have been also mentioned particular therapies realized for the children with health handicaps. The therapies seem to be meaningful for these children at least because the children calm down, entertain, relax and develop during them. There have also been mentioned variety of special aids often used during the activities with these children, which make the care easier not only to the families but to all persons taking care of these children. You can also find there some non-profit institutions in the southern Bohemia region, which provide similar services as Kaňka o.p.s. Tábor does. And last but not least the theoretical part is devoted to the term Expectation itself - what do parents expect of the social services mingled with individual planning of social services, thanks to which the particular organization can be better joined in the process of expectations of the social services. The empirical part deals with the institution Kaňka o.p.s. Tábor with respect to the social services provided to the families of children with health handicaps, who attend this institution. There have besides other things been engaged the other services provided by the institution Kaňka o.p.s. That means therapeutic activities, free time activities, rehabilitation integration stays, one-time activities etc. This part has been enriched with the basic case history of individual clients whose families were part of the research. According to these case histories it is more obvious which clients with a health handicap really attend the institution Kaňka o.p.s. In view of the determined aim there was chosen the qualitative research strategy, the method of asking questions, and the technique of half-structured dialogue. The research was realized in the Kaňka o.p.s. Tábor institution and there were involved twenty respondents. For this research there was chosen the method of intentional choice, that means ten parents of children who attend the Kaňka o.p.s. institution and use the social services there and ten parents of children who also attend this institution and not only use the social services, but also the compulsory education. In the thesis there were determined the spheres of questions relating to the given issues of expectation of the social services provided by Kaňka o.p.s. Tábor. During the data processing, systematization and interpretation there was used selective coding within the method of the contents analysis. There were created categories which facilitate the organization and classification of the data. The result of the thesis has shown that in the research there were involved predominantly women in the age from 40 to 50 and most of them were mothers of the children.
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Motivation of Volunteers Performing Canistherapy
BERANOVÁ, Diana
Abstract Voluntarism has recently been a more and more spoken point, and it has been popular with people of various ages in the society. The aim of this thesis: The Motivation of Volunteers Practising Canistherapy, is to find out, why the volunteers engage exactly in canistherapeutical activity and what is their main motivation. The next intention is to find out, in what way the coordinators of a particular programme work with the motivation of the volunteers and how they develop it. Within this thesis there has been defined another research issue: Why the volunteers devote their free time particularly to the canistherapeutical work, and one more partial research issue: What is the way the coordinators work with the motivation of the volunteers. The Bachelor thesis has been divided into a theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part has been completely devoted to the topic of zootherapy, mainly to its historical development. Next it has been devoted to the canistherapy itself, mainly to its participants, forms, techniques and its use in the society. Another part deals with the voluntarism from the point of view of choosing of the suitable volunteers, training of the volunteers, organisations that provide with the voluntarism in the sphere of canistherapy and coordinators of particular programmes including the helpful supervision. Last but not least it the part about motivation, mainly about the motivation of volunteers and its reinforcement.In the practical part there has been used the qualitative research strategy, the method of questioning and the technique of focus group. The selected set N1 has consisted of the volunteers who have practised canistherapy at least for 6 months and the set N2 have been the coordinators of the particular programme. The number of respondents in the set N1 is ten and in the set N2 is five. The data has been processed via the content analysis of dialogues. There have been addressed ten volunteers who have devoted themselves to voluntarism in the sphere of canistherapy for more than six mohths, so they have the necessary experience. The results of the research have shown that mainly women are engaged in canistherapy. The main motivation of the volunteers for practising of the canistherapeutical service is mostly their dog, that they want to devote their free time to, but at the same time, these people want to engage in the sphere of voluntarism to help other people. Another inspiration for the volunteers, have been their friends, who had practised canistherapy before. From the research there also arises that this activity enables some personal benefits, i. e. getting new skills, experiences and information that the volunteers subsequently use and consider them to be very highly-valued. These personal benefits subsequently lead them to the very important motivation. The research also shows that voluntarism has very strongly influenced the life of the volunteers and their sight of the world. Mainly from the point of view of reappraise of their life priorities, they consider mainly health to be really important. They also realize that the free time they invest is used to good purpose. At the same time these respondents want to devote to canistherapy in the future. The thesis can be used as motivation for other potential volunteers, who would like to take part in the process of canistherapy. Thanks to this thesis more privates than so far could be involved into canistherapy and also more organizations that are able to support voluntarism in this sphere. The public can get some more information about this activity and engage more in this sphere. The training canistherapeutical association Hafík, in which the research took place, is going to be provided with this thesis, because they have been interested in it.
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