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ADHD and cannabinoid use as a form of self-medication
Karchňáková, Zuzana ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Svěcená, Kateřina (referee)
BASIC POSTULATES: It is common the people affected by ADHD consume addictive substances, seeking relief from their sensations of motorical unease and to disturb their rationalising and thinking. Using these substances subjectively improves their abilities, reducing the undesired and unpleasant sensations emanating from the ADHD, possibly even creating enjoyable and desirable moods. The resulting problem is, this self-medication causes troubles in many aspects, detectable only gradually after longer periods of consumption. What starts as an effort to paliate the undesirable symptoms of ADHD and other effects thereof, progressively becomes seeking a solution to harmful consumption of marihuana and, in extreme cases, additiction to cannabinoids. OBJECTIVES: The main objective of this thesis is to find out what is the purpose of the people with ADHD diagnosis in taking cannabis. The focus as put on whether cannabis is used to treat the symptoms of ADHD or not (regardless of the diagnosis). It was also important to map what other addictive substances use if self-medication using cannabis. METHODS: Semi-structured was chosen for the purposes of research. The questionnaires were used from L. Adler ASRS -V1 Adler.1 - Report (Adult ADHD Self Scale). Cannabis Use Disorders Identification Test (CUDIT) from...
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ADHD and cannabinoid use as a form of self-medication
Karchňáková, Zuzana ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Svěcená, Kateřina (referee)
1 Abstract BASIC POSTULATES: It is common the people affected by ADHD consume addictive substances such as alcohol, marihuana, heroin, sedatives, analgetics, nicotine, caffeine, sugar, cocaine or street-produced amphetamines, seeking relief from their sensations of motorical unease and to disturb their rationalising and thinking (Downs, 2013). Using these substances subjectively improves their abilities, reducing the undesired and unpleasant sensations emanating from the ADHD, possibly even creating enjoyable and desirable moods. The resulting problem is, this self-medication causes troubles in many aspects, detectable only gradually after longer periods of consumption. What starts as an effort to paliate the undesirable symptoms of ADHD and other effects thereof, progressively becomes seeking a solution to harmful consumption of marihuana and, in extreme cases, additiction to cannabinoids (Jensen, 2013). OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this thesis is to analyse adult ADHD, regardless of whether they have been diagnosed, yet with perduring symptoms, and who have never been medicated and now use marihuana as self-medication. The main objective is to determine whether respondents subjectively realise when cannabis helps them to relieve their internal unease and when not. Besides, it is also to learn if we can...
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Moral disengagement and bullying of school children
Karchňáková, Zuzana ; Janošová, Pavlína (advisor) ; Vágnerová, Marie (referee)
My bachelor degree thesis deals with situations of moral disengagement and bully in gaming school-age children. The thesis describes an individual's moral evolution. The core of my focus is the character of aggressor, aggression it self and theory of ego-defensive mechanisms. Practical chapters of my thesis interpret a research conducted among the 4th- and 6th-year pupils of elementary schools. The aim of the research was to determine whether questions based on the moral disengagement theory vary among respondents with experience of bullying and whether the difference in responses depends on the age and sex of the respondents. Keywords Moral disengagement, bullying, aggression, aggressor, respondents, moral, exponent
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