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Late-Life Bereavement
DĚDOVÁ, Marta
This thesis is focused on senior citizens and their abillity of dealing with a loss of close relatives. In the theoretical part of the thesis I deal with evolutionary period of the elderly and its signs and process, that go in hand with phases and objectives of bereavement process. Also I mention its forms, uncomplicated and complicated bereavement process. Factors that affect them and reactions that can occur. Subsequently, I link together old-age and bereavement process and I mention the features, that manifest. In the end of the theoretical part I mention a ways of consultancy for the bereaved. In the practical part I present a research, that compare the knowledge from the theoretical part and its results. The research is carried out by narrative analysis, methodology is the interview with a respondent, who lost her father 2 years ago. Her bereavement process is recorded. The conclusion of this part and the thesis leads to the realization that theoretical knowledge agrees only partially with the results of research.
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Women's experience with miscarriage in the first trimester of pregnancy
Lišková, Tereza ; Presslerová, Pavla (advisor) ; Dymešová, Gabriela (referee)
The aim of the thesis was to map the experiences of women with spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) in the first trimester of pregnancy. The data for the empirical part of the qualitative design was obtained through an electronic document in which the informants answered open- ended questions by writing. The research sample consisted of 17 informants who had experienced spontaneous abortion in the first trimester of their wanted pregnancy and had not yet had any children. The data collected were analysed using qualitative methods and the women's experiences were described and interpreted using grounded theory. Women's experiences were explored in several areas: experiencing abortion, loss and grief, needs, sharing, social environment reactions, and protective factors. Women's experiences of spontaneous abortion included mainly shock, sadness, fear, anger, guilt and feelings of failure. Many women experienced miscarriage as the death of their baby and grieved for it. Women needed to be treated with empathy and respect by those close to them and by health professionals. In particular, they perceived reactions and advice downplaying the significance of their loss as negative. The opportunity to share their experience with the wider community was very important to some women, while others shared their...
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Verification of the usability of the Bereavement Needs Assessment Tool
Kardaus, Miroslav ; Šiška, Jan (advisor) ; Mlčková, Marie (referee)
In this study we are verifying aplicability of the tool BNAT for the target group of people with severe, multiple disability and autism in social residential facilities. Next we comment the tool. The research has been conducted by means of interviewing primary care workers. Based on the results of qualitative analysis of interviews we had commented BNAT tool and suggested adjustments, leading towards usability in residential facility conditions, considering target group. The contribution of the study is based on verifying of practicality of the tool that is mapping the needs of users in the moment of loss. The significance is foremost for workers who lead individuals with intellectual disability through the loss of the loved one.
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Bereavement in people with developmental disabilities
Štaffová, Kristýna ; Šiška, Jan (advisor) ; Němec, Zbyněk (referee)
Title: Bereavement in people with developmental disabilities Author: Kristýna Štaffová Department: Department of Special Education Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Jan Šiška, Ph.D. Abstract This thesis is devoted to the topic of mourning of people with developmental disabilities. In this paper we focus on the positive influence of the grieving process before it starts, that means, how can we inform an individual with developmental disabilities in a sensitive way about an illness or a death of his beloved. In the introduction we describe bases which are characteristic for people with developmental disabilities and which are useful to consider when communicating bad news. Subsequent chapters are devoted to describing the preparation and process of telling bad news to people with developmental disabilities. The thesis is supplemented by practical examples for better representation of the discussed topic. The conclusion is dedicated to description of the grieving process of 3 persons with developmental disabilities. Key Words person with developmental disabilities, dying, death, grieving, grief, grieving process, bereavement, loss, bad news
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The Palliative Care of Dying People with Intellectual Disabilities in Sheltered Housing
Hušnerová, Lucie ; Cimrmannová, Tereza (advisor) ; Stretti, Sylvie (referee)
My diploma thesis is called The Palliative Care of Dying People with Intellectual Disabilities in Sheltered Housing. The purpose of the text is to create an overview study of palliative care about dying people with mental disabilities. The reason why I have decided to focus on such a relevant issue is a wide shortage of information in Czech Republic compared to other countries. People with mental disabilities nowadays tend to live longer and the question of palliative care for them is crucial. My thesis is divided into six main sections. In the first section I talk about the ethics dilemma of palliative care. By ethics dilemma I mean problems that are needed to be dealt with in palliative care. One of them is the decision if it is adequate to die in an institution or in a home environment. In this section for instance it is described if it is necessarily to tell the truth the patients about their health conditions. The text is also referring to the medical advances comparing to quality of life of dying people. I also describe what the quality of life means to people and how to reach the highest level of quality of life in palliative care. In the second part of my thesis I describe the social, health and other services which are suitable for dying people and their relatives. Most of the named...
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The Phenomenon of Death and Mourning in the Context of Intellectual Disability: Grief Support Group Project
Janyšková, Kristýna ; Šiška, Jan (advisor) ; Franiok, Petr (referee) ; Hádková, Kateřina (referee)
This doctoral dissertation's topic is mourning in people with intellectual disabilities who have lost a loved one. The research focuses mainly on the loss of parents, but also includes the loss of other people, such as grandparents. By loss we mean death, but the results of the work can also be used for losses of a different nature. The aim of this work is to understand grief in people with intellectual disabilities and to suggest appropriate ways to support their grieving process, with emphasis on grief support groups. As part of the research, we set up and implemented 2 support groups for grieving people with intellectual disabilities, each lasting at least 2 months and meeting once a week. At the very beginning of our research, we carried out one support group of the same length as a pilot study. The pilot study was first evaluated and the proposal of the support group according to the original foreign script was modified to better meet the needs of Czech citizens with intellectual disabilities. After the pilot study, we enriched the research with a questionnaire test of our own design, capturing a possible change in process of mourning in people involved in our support groups. We presented the questionnaire test to the participants before the start of the support groups and immediately after...
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Development of adolescent identity in selected novels by John Green
Tomanová, Michaela ; Topolovská, Tereza (advisor) ; Chalupský, Petr (referee)
The American YA novelist John Green frequently centres his books on characters that have been struck by the death of somebody close to them, by a traumatic event, or suffer from debilitating illness. Since adolescence is an important and impressionable period of life during which one's identity is firmly established for the first time, such experiences inevitably have a lasting impact on the person and their sense of self. This diploma thesis analyses how the teenage heroes in two selected works by Green - The Fault in Our Stars (2012) and Looking for Alaska (2005) - construe their identity when simultaneously facing death and/or trauma. The analysis takes as its foundation the theories of (inter)subjectivity and of the Other by literary critics Robyn McCallum and Karen Coats, respectively, and is complemented by the outline of psychological development from James E. Marcia. Interpersonal relationships are at the crux of a stable adult identity, and are essential for successful integration into wider society. If these are missing, the individual is marginalised as a threat to others, possibly dying as a consequence of their status. KEY WORDS John Green, young-adult literature, adolescence, maturation, identity, the Other, death, grief, terminal illness, The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska
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The Art forms inspirating for ethical dealing with lost of child.
HENKENOVÁ, Stanislava
Beginning of my bachelor thesis describes if arts, artworks and experience given from art have some utility for a better dealing with loss of child. It was important to point out how big the differences and gaps are between our modern society and history which perceived death differently, we can say like part of the life but the course of time and expansion of consumer way of life caused that the perception of death rapidly changed and nowadays we take the death like a terrifying part of our lives. In these days people more and more divert the focus from the death issue because this time just rejects this thought. Today's society is completely alienated to the death issue and when people come in contact with it, their reactions are usually negative and the inconceivability of this situation in which they found themselves is present. That's why I was also interested in the view of adult and child. And the difference was clearly considerable. This refers to clause by intellectual disposition of child and adult one already disposing with life experience. I was also curious about how black culture, totally different from our own, is aware of the death and all trauma around it. During my internship in South Africa I was curious about their traditions, customs and rituals which they made during the grief and also which feelings are included in this trauma and how the society perceive that family. Because of this reason I further took an interest in what kind of impact the religion, culture and education has towards the attitude to the death. Of course we can find the familiar features for both cultures but moreover there are differences. The three mentionned elements have a big impact to the perception of the death. I was also focused on which possibilities has our society for parents who are traumated by this hard life situation. With regard to my field of study I was further curious about which role can play social worker in this area and also whether he or she can be useful to bereaved family.
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The bereavement and grief during childhood and adolescence
KOVÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to survey the memories of college students who experienced the bereavement and grief during their childhood and adolescence by using a qualitative approach. Following study is designed to gather information of each participant's unique experience and attitude. The retrospective design also allows to identify the singularities in their understanding of it's impact to their current life. The theoretical part is focused on description of the main topics and related theories. I am especially focused on attitude of our society to the topic of death. I describe the development of child understanding of the concept of death. I also refer to current grief theories which are agreed upon by professionals mentioned the topic of Childhood Traumatic Grief. There are also noticed some intervention techniques and therapy methods which can help during the process. The empirical part is based on specification of the research applying semi-structured interviews. This investigation consists of six case studies, which are based on individual interviews with six volunteers. As expected, the findings from this study can demonstrate how varied the bereavement proces is for children.
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Social work with children terminally ill parents in hospice care.
NĚMEČKOVÁ, Michaela
This work is dealing with children and adolescents, who are going through a loss of their parent. It describes how the multidisciplinary team of home hospice care works approach this focus group. My work explains how death is perceived by children and adolescents, understanding of which is instrumental in handling communication with individuals suffering from the trauma of loss. We need to understand family as a unit where everyone influence each other. Therefore I point out the importance of open communication in the family which is the basis for strong life-long relationships and also helps coping with loss better. This work is enriched by interviews with home hospice care social workers and their hands-on experience working with children going through the loss of their parent.
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