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Psychosocial Context of Refugees with a Focus on Stressful Life Situations in the Czech Republic
Předotová, Andrea ; Cimrmannová, Tereza (advisor) ; Mitáš, Václav (referee)
This diploma thesis, entitled "The Psychosocial Context of Refugees with a Focus on Stressful Life Situations in the Czech Republic" is focused on the experiences of lifes refugees in the Czech Republic which could be said to induce stress. The opening chapter deals with the basic terminology relating to the problems of refugees. I also describe the current situation of refugees in the Czech Republic. The main part of this diploma thesis is description of the stressful life situations of refugees throughout the migration process. Migration is divided into individuals phases, from the time prior to escaping, to first contact with a new country, to stay in asylum centers, then to processing in asylum procedure and adaptation to the Czech Republic. This chapter also includes fragments of a case study featuring a family from Afghanistan. The next chapter deals with the problems of integration into Czech society. The conclusion of this paper focuses on the specifics of social work with refugees, the role of the social worker, and the problems faced by the system of refugee assistance.
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The phenomenon of corruption in Russia
Trukhan, Eduard ; Džbánková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Soukupová, Jana (referee)
This thesis examines corruption in economic terms and in terms of social impact on Russian society. This is a very serious problem for the Russian economy - corruption here reaches epic proportions. The main goal of this thesis is to develop effective proposals for fighting against corruption in Russia. The central hypothesis is the following assertion: the main reason of corruption existence in Russia are unsuccessful Nikita Khrushchev's reforms in state management. The paper is based on a literature review, correlation analysis, forecasting and comparison. The thesis is based on previous analysis of the development of corruption in the country, the current situation and also on the experience from other countries. These analyses are used for making suggestions for the removal of the negative state.
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The VA: A Political Solution to a Societal Problem
Henceroth, Nathan William ; Raška, Francis (advisor) ; Hrishabh, Sandilya (referee)
Thesis Abstract The thesis of this project is that the United States' Department of Veteran Affairs, the VA, is a political creation, since its foundations were not charitable, economic, faith-based, ethnic, etc. Its foundation was purely on the political wherewithal and expediency that the Federal Government in Washington, DC felt during the interwar years, and the threat to American society that many WWI veterans posed as a result of their being angry at not receiving advanced payments on their bonuses. This is the central thesis, albeit nuanced, that pre determined whether the VA had any chance at succeeding at its goals. Secondarily, this paper outlines why the VA has been able to become the relative success that it has been. With regards to the starting point at which many veterans enter into the VA health care system, the results have been nothing less than a minor miracle. This aspect is analyzed and outlined within the body of the paper, and specific examples are given in support. In addition, the VA's health care system is explained, and its organization is presented in the form of maps and charts to expedite the reader's knowledge acquisition. To fully understand the VA's outreach, its organization must be understood. It is important to understand the context in which the VA was created, and the...
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Socializing processes during the child's adaptation in the kindergarten
Šafránková, Tereza ; Koťátková, Soňa (advisor) ; Opravilová, Eva (referee)
The dissertation is concerned with socializing processes of pre-school children around three years of age. The first theoretical part is globally concerned with personality socialization and highlights the significance of socialization in the healthy psychical progression of human beings, as well as the importance of understanding the problems of socialization for the pedagogical profession. This knowledge is specific and generalized in a situational context when the child comes to the kindergarten for the first time and gets slowly untied from the family, developing new relationships outside the family sphere. Socialization in the kindergarten is influenced by many internal and external factors. These factors matter if the child coming to the new kindergarten environment will incorporate to this society without any complications. If any complications appear during the incorporation, internal and external factors also influence the period how long they will last and also they influence the manner how the child will manage them as well. Adaptation programm can facilitate the entrance to the kindergarten for parents and their children. By means of this support programme, alongside the familiar person, children can gradually get acquainted with the new kindergarten environment even before the start of...
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Corruption in Slovakia: The role of non-government organizations in fight against corruption
Böhmová, Dorota ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Smetanková, Daša (referee)
Corruption as a contemporary phenomenon attracts attention of laymen but also experts who are trying to define this notion on the basis of various criterions. The aim of this thesis is to theoretically define corruption as the attendant phenomenon of the current society and to analyze methods of its solution. The studied country is Slovak republic which as a post-communist country shows some specifics. There are many proposed ways how to solve the problem of corruption however this thesis concerns itself primarily with the role of non-government organizations and their ability to actually influence political acts concerned with restricting of corruption possibilities. The intense cooperation among these non-government organizations and especially their cooperation with the government is crucial in order to be able to influence the political agenda. Therefore this thesis deals with this non-government organizations -- government relationship as well.
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Identity of the greek minority and its transnational activities in the CR
Hluchá, Zuzana ; Janská, Eva (advisor) ; Seidlová, Markéta (referee)
The main content of this Thesis is to assess the situation of the Greek minority in the territory of the Czech Republic in the context of its arrival, settlement and integration to the major society. The aim is to assess the current situation of the minority and its transnational activities. The Greek minority in our country is numerically stable and fully integrated into the main society. The typical feature of minority is the identification with other members of minority trough their organizations and also through the internal identification with the country of their origin (namely Greece), by the traditional culture, history, cuisine and language. The Thesis is divided into eight parts that are relevant to understanding the problems of Greek minority in our country in the context of involuntary emigration from war torn Greece in the 1950's. The methods used in this thesis were the secondary analyses and the field research (the questionnaire survey). The simple statistical methods were used to gain final result. Key worlds: Greek minority, migration, identity, transnational, diaspora.
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Implementation of managing and controlling system in public governance
Krutská, Sylvie ; Vondráček, Jan (advisor) ; Poduška, Bohuslav (referee)
The current legislation that regulates internal managing and controlling system in administrative bodies of the public governance lags behind in the implementation of international experiences and standards for excersing the internal audits. This fact causes many reactions in the general public and also in the professional society. Alarming news about corruption and wasteful use of the public sources are just the token of the problem. The goal of this thesis is to define and analyze the process of implementing the managing and controlling system and subsequently to create a plan for a successful implementation of the effective managing and controlling system in the public governance. In the theoretical part are characteristics and goals of the managing and controlling system, legislative framework and description of components for the managing and controlling system, that are based on international experiences and practice. In the analytical part is the analyze of the particular elements from the managing and controlling system and finally in the practical part is the proposal of implementation managing and controlling system and also the proposal of directive for the internal control, which is supposed to simplify the practical use in the public governance. There is a draft of the assessment of Internal Control System Effectiveness in the practical part of this thesis.
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Difficulty of blind man in medical institution
Dvořáková, Bohdana ; Kutnohorská, Jana (advisor) ; Machalová, Iva (referee) ; Pečenková, Jaroslava (referee)
The Bachelor thesis deals with the issue of special needs of blind people in medical institutions. It draws attention to the necessity of a greater degree of cooperation of multidisciplinary teams in treating the blind. The thesis deals with various types 85 of architectural barriers that make it practically impossible for the handicapped to orientate themselves and it tries to explain how to eliminate them. It argues that theoretical and practical training of medical staff is necessary in order to avoid cases of blind people being disadvantaged in our mostly sighted society. The basis of the thesis is formed by qualitative research with seven blind respondents. The method of semi-structured interview was used here and the respondents were carefully chosen. The main criterion was the acceptation of the handicap and experience with medical staff in hospitals. An issue was examined, why do these people, who lead normal lives (work, travel on their own in public transport, communicate with authorities, raise children), have problems to visit medical facilities alone, without company.
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Internet and computer crimes
Janýšková, Zuzana ; Gřivna, Tomáš (advisor) ; Herczeg, Jiří (referee)
INTERNET AND COMPUTER CRIME (SUMMARY) The purpose of this thesis is to provide an introduction to the basic problems of Internet and computer crime (furthermore also "cyber crime"), which is a type of crime that is still relatively new, but fast developing in a similar pace as the information technologies. The thesis contains seven substantial chapters. First chapter is an introduction of this thesis, which focuses on its structure and summary of the content. Second chapter presents the most important concepts and issues concerning Internet and computer crime, describes its special features, such as independence on the physical world, high latency, specifics of cyber criminals in comparison with other criminals, or perception of cyber crime by the society. Third chapter deals with Czech substantial criminal law concerning cyber crime. It mentions both criminal code, which is in force and effect at the date of finishing this thesis, and past criminal code, which was repealed at the end of last year (2009), after almost fifty years of being in effect. Fourth chapter consists of several separate subchapters, each of them concerns one selected type of cyber crime. While selecting the computer crimes for chapter four, the author's aim was to introduce a few types of cyber crime that currently belong to the most...
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