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Cannabis Users in the Context of Treatment Demand Indicators
Šťastná, L. ; Miovský, Michal
The increase in cannabis consumption in the past decade has created a need for continuous monitoring of risk behaviour indicators and a need for better prediction of this development in relation on the future demand for conselling and treatment interventions. A specific position among these indicators is occupied by the Treatment Demand ů TD, showing the total number of users in treatment for the period in question, and the First Treatment Demand Indicator ů FTD, showing the total number of individuals demending treatment for the first time in their lives for the period in question. In addition to providing a summary of these indicators in the Czech Republic, the authors deal with the secondary analysis of the data collected by means of a qualitative study using the focus-group method. The study focused on the service providers who reported the highest numbers of treatment demands for the year 2002.
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The qualitative approach in modern research of addictions in Czech Republic during 1990s
Miovský, Michal
The development of qualitative approach and methods in research of drug users and drug use was during 1990s very rapid. It is impossible to provide a summary of this approach and methods in the Czech Republic unless we describe wider contexts of development of science in our country in the second half of the last century. Influence of communist ideology on science was obvious in many disciplines. However, the field of humanistic studies suffered the most. Under the communist regime, qualitative approach was not officially discussed in universities, and it was regarded as unscientific. Therefore, apart from a few exceptions, officially published scientific studies that made use of qualitative methodology have only started to appear in 1990s.
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The amotivational syndrome and the description of the lifestyle of heavy cannabis drug users
Gabrhelík, Roman
The so-called "amotivational syndrome" in cannabis users is said to represent changes on behavioural level and in cognitive sytle as a result of long-term, heavy use of cannabis drugs. We give a brief overview of knowledge in the course of study of the amotivational syndrome. The aim of this conference paper is to present basic information about the procedures and methods used during our study on the heavy cannabis users and analysis of their life-style. The means that we do not focus primarily on the results of our study, but we only want to present one way of how to handle this phenomenon with the qualitative research methods.
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Narrative therapy: polyphonic choir
Čermák, Ivo
Narrative therapy is shortly characterised and reasons explaining its existence are mentioned. Psychodynamic, cognitive-constructivist, and social constructionist versions of narrative therapy are introduced. Theoretical sources such as approaches to the life-story and some representations of these three versions are also discussed. It is argued that the individual life-story brings closer different therapeutic approaches. It is concluded that each psychotherapy is a process of the three overlapping phases: Life-story telling, life-story reading and life-story re-telling.
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The psychologist and art: Josef Viewegh´s contribution to the Czech and Slovak psychology
Čermák, Ivo
Work of Josef Viewegh and its contribution to the Czech and Slovak psychology is analysed. J. Viewegh, one of the few Czech psychologists, was inspired by German Geisteswisenschafte psychology. He focused on the art as a source of knowledge about its author. He believed that psychology must be considered as an interdisciplinary branch of knowledge. His researches on diaries and creativity of writers, who commited suicide, support his opinion. He argued that authentic subjective experience is most valid means of understanding the individual. Viewegh´s psyhological analyses of aphorism and his theory of imagination and creativity are also mentioned.
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Some perspectives of qualitative research: software for analysing qualitative data
Heller, Daniel
The author deals with problems of choosing and using software for analysing qualitative data. He mentions the hopes, fears and fantasies connected with new technologies, the ways of using computers in qualitative research, and the reasons for using software for analysing qualitative data. He presents the types of software for analysing qualitative data including some examples. He sums up the recommendations for using software in qualitative research. In the conclusion, the author asks the question of the impact of software on qualitative research and brings some examples in this field.
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Research as narrative reconstruction
Chrz, Vladimír
Contribution represents an attempt to reflect!what we do in narrative research\\". For this aim, narrative pespective, which consists in comprehension of narrative construction as a mode of giving the meaning to experience, is discussed. After this, narrative data(first of all the autobiographical interviews) are specified as a partial, contextual expression of structuring tje experience. Futher, the mthod of narrative research, which consists of reconstructing the making of the meaning by narrative means, is characterized. In frame of this process, researcher attempts to grasp, reveal and acent the structures of giving the meaning to experience as the structures constructed by narrative means. In this theoretical and methodological frame of reference, a set of categories, which can serve as a conceptual schema in the process of narrative reconstruction of meaning, are discussed.
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