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Application and Verification of a Self-defence Program for Patients in a Psychiatric Hospital
Vopátek, Jan ; Čadová, Libuše (advisor) ; Stich, Jaroslav (referee)
Title: Application and Verification of a Self-defence Program for Patients in a Psychiatric Hospital Objectives: The aim of this thesis is application of a self-defence program, created in a bachelor thesis, during an addiction treatment in Červený Dvůr, a psychiatric hospital. The thesis surveys the suitability of the educational program during addiction treatment, verification of acquired motoric skills and its possible integration in patients' free time, recommendation of the exercise to friends, and last but not least it surveys a possible interest in the program in other psychiatric hospitals. Methods: There are several methods used in the thesis. Content analysis is used for working with literature, interview is used in the conversation held with the department head and the custodian. Observation is used for watching the participants doing the exercise. Comparing is used for evaluation of the final outputs. Opinion poll is used for finding the asset of the educational program. Basic statistic methods are used for evaluating the answers in the opinion polls. Results: The suitability of the program was confirmed by two department heads in two psychiatric hospitals which are focused on addiction treatment. An interest in follow-up self-defence or martial arts exercise was found out in the...
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Perception of personal experience with smoking cessation in relationship to the therapy of primary addiction: qualitative reseach among clients of therapeutic communities
Sovová, Adéla ; Radimecký, Josef (advisor) ; Štěpánková, Lenka (referee)
BACKGROUND - This thesis works on the assumption that one's own experience with smoking cessation along with the habit-breaking patterns that one gains from this experience, might have a positive influence on addiction treatment. It is assumed that these patterns help client with the overall treatment, the relapse prevention, motivation issues and continued abstinence. AIMS - The aim of this thesis is to investigate the effect of smoking cessation experience and the role it plays in the therapeutic community. I also focused my research on the clients' perception of the tobacco using in relation to their health, life and complete abstinence concept. METHODS - Both current smokers and ex-smokers as well as clients of two therapeutic communities were subjected to qualitative analysis. Purposive sampling method was used to select the respondents for semi-structured interview. Content analysis and partly interpretative phenomenological analysis were used to process the collected data. RESULTS - Based on the research, respondents perceive smoking negatively in relation to their health. They are aware of the tobacco dependence potential, however they do not include the issue into complete abstinence. The assumption that respondents utilize their smoking cessation experience in addiction treatment was in...
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Differences in eating habits and frequency of food received by clients of therapeutic communities before and after the initiation of treatment of addiction
Köhlerová, Martina ; Čablová, Lenka (advisor) ; Slabá, Šárka (referee)
This thesis focuses on the eating habits of drug users. The aim of the study is to compare changes in eating habits among clients in therapeutic communities before entering into treatment with the subsequent state of eating habits in the first month of treatment and in the third month of treatment. Data were obtained in therapeutic communities completing food frequency questionnaires, which monitor the weight of clients and consumption of major food groups - grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy products, meat, eggs, legumes, sweets and tea. Questionnaires were administered immediately after entering treatment, to obtain retrospective information on eating habits before treatment. Clients completed the questionnaire after the first and third months of addiction treatment. Based on the analysis data obtained from the questionnaires, it was found that the average weight among treatment clients grows. Larger increases were recorded for the clients, women by an average of 2 points on a scale of BMI. The data show that consumption of commodities, cereals, fruit, dairy products and sweets among the periods before treatment, in the first month of treatment and in the third month of treatment decreased. Increased consumption was observed in commodity vegetables and tea. In the group of food meat, eggs and...
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Role of glutamatergic transmission in mechanisms of addiction to morphine.
Moutelíková, Karolína ; Hejnová, Lucie (advisor) ; Červená, Kateřina (referee)
Drugs are used by mankind since ancient times. One group of these substances are opioids. Opioids have antinociceptive effects and can induce euphoria and relaxation as well. A chronic usage of opioids can lead to a development of drug addiction and phenomens like tolerance and sensitization. One of the most used opioids in medicine is morphine. Morphine is isolated from opium of poppy (Papaver somniferum). Direct effect of morphine is mediated via activation of μ- opioid receptors and their signal cascade. It was implicated that the usage of morphine affects other neurotransmmiter systems in the brain and these neurotransmmiter systems play a signifikant role in the development of addiction and other phenomena. One of these systems is an important excitatory brain system - glutamergic system. This bacherol thesis focuses on interrelationship between opioid and glutamatergic systems during addiction.There were described changes in a composition of glutame ionotropic receptors and changes in their expression as well as in expression of metabotropic glutamate receptors. These changes differ in various parts of the brain and in diverse stages of addiction on morphine too. In spite of all diferences, the results of studies indicate that glutamatergic receptors play a significant role in the development...
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Awareness of clients of selected K-centre of addiction treatment options
Filipovská, Marie ; Váchová, Alena (advisor) ; Kovaříková, Miroslava (referee)
This bachelor thesis named Awareness of clients of selected K-centre of addiction treatment options in theoretical part deals with a phenomenon of drug addiction. It describes the definition of pathological addiction, models of dependence, types of drugs and treatment options in the Czech Republic. The research part seeks to answer the research goals and assumptions of respondents of selected K-centre. The main aim of the research part is to find out specific information about clients of selected K-centre and to explore their drug experiences. Sub-goals tend to indentify a socio- demographic data about clients of K-centre and their awareness of treatment options of drug abuse. The last sub-goal tries to find out information about clients drug dependence treatment. For a data collection was used a structured questionnaire which contained 10 closed or semi-closed questions. The questionnaire survey was carried out within one working week in selected contact centre in Prague. There were collected answers from 24 respondents (16 men and 8 women). The research survey shows that awareness of clients of selected K-centre of addiction treatment options is very high. It was also found that the majority of respondents is treating or was treated for their addiction dependence (except treatment in K-centre)....
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Spirituality of professionals in addictology inpatient services: a questionnaire survey
Zemina, Jiří ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Zachová, Kateřina (referee)
Background: For dealing with addiction, bio-psycho-socio-spiritual paradigm which is the main subject of this paper. The first three topics are mostly concerned about research rather than spirituality theme itself. The majority are focusing particularly on feeling spirituality of the researched clients Aims: The main aim was to map spirituality of workers that are supporting residual addiction treatment, which could bring new findings with possible implementation to bring spirituality to practice. Aims: The main focus of the paper is to describe spirituality of residual addiction treatment workers. Methods: For data gathering, Prague spirituality questionnaire was used, where individual approach to spirituality can be assessed. The questionnaire consists of social and demographic questions combined with personal spirituality position together with its impact. There were 49 respondents consisting of residual addiction treatment workers. Results: The outcome describes differences between individual professions of which nurses are the group with biggest impact of spirituality while addictologists on the opposite site. Analysis further reflects link between spirituality and age of the respondents, which is clearly higher with increasing age. On top of that, men clearly feel drugs as a source of...
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Use of Equine Facilitated Activities and Therapies (hippo-rehabilitation) in Addiction Treatment in a Psychiatric Hospital
Bartoňová, Michaela ; Kalina, Kamil (advisor) ; Svěcená, Kateřina (referee)
Background: The diploma thesis deals with the method of equine facilitated psychiatry and psychology and its use in the treatment of addictions. The theoretical part is the starting point of the whole work. It presents the basic methods of treatment used, the method of Equine facilitated activities and therapies itself and its inclusion in traditional methods of addiction treatment. The research part is based on qualitative data collection. Aims: The aim of the diploma thesis is to describe the use of equine facilitated activities and therapies in residential addiction treatment. Find out how patients and therapists evaluate this method, what areas of life are affected by equine facilitated activities and therapies and how it fits into current treatment methods. Data: The research group consists of eight patients from the addiction treatment department at a psychiatric hospital who met the selection criteria. And two therapists who work with the method of equine facilitated psychiatry and psychology in addicted clients / patients and met the selection criteria. Methods: The chosen type of research was process evaluation. Patients were focused on the focus using a semi-structured interview and a semi-structured interview on the therapists. Results and Conclusion: Research has shown that horses have...
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Mindfulness based relapse prevention
Bentley, Anna-Alexandra ; Čiberová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Gabrhelík, Roman (referee)
This bachelor thesis summarizes the current state of knowledge in the field of mindfulness-based relapse prevention. Over the last few decades, mindfulness has become part of several psychotherapeutic programs and has shown promising results in the treatment of a wide range of chronic diseases, including addiction. The starting point for writing this work is the absence of a document that would summarize the current state of knowledge in this field and the possibility of applying a relapse prevention program based on mindfulness in the Czech Republic. In the first part of the work, we briefly deal with cognitive-behavioral therapy and its relationship to the issue of addiction. Subsequently, we present the theory of relapse prevention according to Marlatt and Gordon, which is the most commonly used treatment intervention so far. The main part of the work is a description of the 8-week manualized program Mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP) and a proposal for the implementation of this program in the system of care for addicts in the Czech Republic. The partial goals of the work are to describe the proposed psychological mechanisms of action. Methods of source analysis and semi-structured interviews were used to meet the objectives of the work. The result of the work is a survey that provides...
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