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Animal Assisted Activities and Animal Assisted Therapy with a Dog (Canine Therapy) in Special Pedagogy
BRÁZDOVÁ, Pavla
This bachelor thesis is focused on canistherapy and dog-assisted activities and therapies, specifically in the field of special pedagogy. The aim of this work is to map the possibilities and limits of dog-assisted activities and therapies in educational facilities from the point of view of special pedagogues. Through the research questions it was discovered how dog-assisted activities and therapies in educational facilities took place from the point of view of special pedagogues and what their experience with these activities and therapies were. The thesis is divided into two parts theoretical and practical. In the theoretical part, readers are informed about the present state in this field. It consists of three sections. In the first section, fundamental terms of canistherapy are defined. It deals with its historical development, its methods and forms, and with the specification of a canistherapeutic team. The second section is focused on special pedagogy, its division and types of facilities. The third section connects canistherapy with special pedagogy. It focuses on disabled children as on canistherapy clients. The practical part is formed by the research. The qualitative research method the interviewing method was used in the research. The research group was composed of special pedagogues or educators from special schools or educational facilities in South Bohemia. The respondents were interviewed in a semi-structured interview. It was structured on the basis of the research questions of the bachelor thesis and targets set in advance. The research shows that canistherapeutic methods AAA and AAT are used in special schools and educational facilities, usually in a visiting form, both group and individual. The canistherapeutic experience of special pedagogues and educators is positive. The benefits of canistherapy are diversification of education, children stimulation, relaxation, improved motor activity and communication skills, and improved self-confidence. The disadvantage of canistherapy is a small number of canistherapeutic teams.
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Specifics of supervision of volunteer programmes in health-social area
BRÁZDOVÁ, Pavla
Although the benefits of supervision are known nowadays, it is still not applied in a number of fields. This concerns even such occupations where direct work with clients is the basis of work or voluntary activity (e.g. health care, school education and even some organisations providing services of social care etc.). This thesis first informs about supervision in general, i.e. about its history, objectives, functions and division. Further, it deals with the person of the supervisor, the supervised person, and their relationship. The theoretical part is finished with information on social services, volunteering and supervision of volunteer programmes in the field of medical and social care. In comparison with the supervision of providers of social services, this volunteer supervision should be different, and this difference should consist in its voluntary, not obligatory, character. This diploma thesis aims at describing specific features of supervision of volunteer programmes in the field of medical and social care. A partial objective is to find differences between providing and receiving supervisions in volunteer programmes and supervisions of organisations providing social services. The research was both quantitative and qualitative, included method of questioning, semi-standardised questionnaire and a guided interview. There were three hypotheses set in the thesis, two of which were confirmed and one disproved. Further, on the basis of her results, the author defines the specific character of the supervision of volunteer programmes. The author regards as the most important finding the fact that volunteers take part in supervision voluntarily and with pleasure, view it as beneficial a natural part of their volunteer activity. This is also the most essential difference between the volunteer supervision and the supervision provided by social services, where over 50 per cent of staffs view supervision as an obligatory part of their occupation, and a much higher percentage of the staffs in comparison with volunteers say that they do not regard supervision as a benefit for themselves. The author sees the applicability of this thesis in publishing her results in professional journals or in publishing on the web pages of the National Volunteer Centre, because so far almost nothing has been published on this subject.
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Drug Abuse and Crime of Youngsters
BRÁZDOVÁ, Pavla
Nowadays this pathological phenomenon is widely spread. Despite the tendencies of repressing it, drug abuse is presented in the society, youngers including. Crime appears in association with drug abuse. The youngters undergo many significant changes connected with the age and they do not always cope with it successfully. They are predisposed to admitting a risky way of life and so they can become drug addicted quite easily. This work informs readers about the most common drugs used by the younsters, brings the characteristics of the drugs and the adolescents as a specific group together with the imminent danger and refers to kinds of drug crime as well as to its prevention. The aim of the work is to clarify the causes of the crime done by the younsters who use intoxicants and psychotropics. The author focused on family background of the young people, the kinds of drugs they use and their personal lives. All the findings were interpreted on the basis of similar features. A qualitative method, based on expert opinion of fifteen people observed, was used. In this particular case, the method was focused mainly on the family life, e.i. the background the child comes from. It resulted into the hypothesis that the young people come from one-parent or problem families where parent/s do not manage the upbringing sufficiently. The next part was centred on the criminal acts especially their kinds which are linked to the drug abuse. Followed from conclusion there are two main kinds of crime. Firstly keeping and producing drugs and secondly property crime the purpose of which is to raise money on drugs. As for the private lives of the young people, several interesting facts have resulted from the survey. The most important and surprising one is that the young drug users, who commit crime, cannot preserve long-term partner and labour relations.
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Analysis of development of the city of Jihlava
Brázdová, Pavla ; Louda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kadeřábková, Jaroslava (referee)
Hlavním tématem této diplomové práce jsou rozvojové politiky statutárního města Jihlavy v letech 1998 - 2008. Analýza je založena na následujících dokumentech - Strategický plán ekonomického vývoje města Jihlavy, Programové prohlášení Rady města Jihlavy a Integrovaný plán rozvoje statutárního města Jihlavy. Práce se člení na čtyři kapitoly zabývající se historií města, složením jeho vedení ve třech volebních obdobích, samotnými rozvojovými dokumenty a analýzou rozvojových politik.
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