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Psychosocial working load of nurses and social workers. Quantitative survey.
STEHLÍKOVÁ, Kateřina
I deal with problems of psychosocial working load of nurses and social workers in this final bachelor thesis. As usual the bachelor thesis is divided into a theoretical part and practical one. In the theoretical part I focused on a loading characteristic, on its types, on individual load situations. Furthermore some notions are described here such as working load, psychosocial load. I did not forget to apply herself to a nursing concept, nurse profession and as well to a social work characteristic and social worker profession. In the practical part I focused on a rate deduction of psychosocial working load and on identification of causes of psychosocial working load of nurses and social workers. A questioning method by the help of a non-standardized questionnaire was used to detect set targets. I have made up the questionnaire on the basis of my own experience and personal assumptions. The group of questioned people was formed by nurses and social workers from South Moravian Region, district Znojmo. The results have been arranged into a diagram. The research has proved that in both professions it is possible to identify the rate and causes of psychosocial working load. By choosing of this theme I wanted to pint out to psychosocial working load which nurses and social workers are daily accompanied by. This work has brought me a lot of information and thinking about these problems. I hope that it will also benefit nurses, social workers and as well their supervisors. Thinking about these problems could lead many people to a solution or even elimination of some issues connected with this given theme.
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Care for the terminally ill people in a home environment
VACHOVÁ, Marie
Bachelors work is conceived in a theoretical and practical scope. Theoretical part of my bachelors work is partially dedicated to utilization of hospice and palliative care, and care for the terminally ill in a home environment. Part of my work is committed to the role of social worker, and his/her support for home care providers. The research part is based on interviews with relatives, who provided hospice care at home. Interviews with them are used to analyze motivation for such decisions. In this part are also included the results evaluation, discussion and conclusion. Bachelors work is supplemented by attachments.
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Personal qualification of workers in the social professions
HORUTOVÁ, Andrea
The work concerus personal presumptions of social workers. Theoretical part characterizes the personality generally and the personality of social workers. It explains terms such as prejudice, stereotype, presumption. Then it describes forming of the personality and cooperation between client and the worker. The practical part contains seven dialogues carried out with respondents (female social workers) from different parts of social services. Next it contains responds on research questions which are objectinely compiled in tables.
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The care allowance within the Benešov region.
NOVOTNÁ, Soňa
The bachelor thesis is engaged in the care allowance within the Benešov region. The aim is to introduce the care allowance issue to the reader since its beginning, mention the history and explain the continuous development in the period of January 2007 - February 2010. The bachelor thesis includes theoretical part, practical part and appendices. The care allowance and its legal regulation are defined in the theoretical concept. Other chapters explain the care allowance recipient and his/her needs, care allowance proceedings, social investigation issue, work of medical advisory service and control of the care allowance{\crq}s use. A chapter defining the issue of municipalities and social workers of the chosen municipal office is also a part of the theoretical part. The issue of clients using care allowance with regard to casuistry is introduced in the practical concept of this bachelor thesis. Appendices contain instances of final reports of conducted social investigations, summary of acts considered in the social investigation of an adolescent applicant, records of control of the care allowance use, Benešov{\crq}s municipal office statistical data on care allowance.
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Identification of handicaps of mentally disabled person in the age of adolescence and early adulthood carried out by a social worker
ŠESTÁK, Jan
If a social service shall reach its goal as a targeted and individual one it must respond to real needs of the mentally disabled individual. Social workers are active participants in integration processes of mentally disabled people. What role does the social worker play in the integration process? In what items and how can he assist the mentally disabled person in accomplishing his/her social role in corresponding and worthy way? What tools and skills does he need for it? The dissertation thesis tries to work with those questions and to discuss them in more details. An attempt is made to outline theoretic and practical grounds and possibilities for activities of the social worker in the process of integration of mentally disabled people into the common society. Motivated by an effort to understand activities of the social worker comprehensibly and unambiguously, a concept of three-level periodic operation was defined as ``Identification {--} Support {--} Opportunity``. The goal of the research is to form an evaluation scale (of the ``Identification`` tool) that could help the social worker in identification of substantial handicaps but also in recognition of advantages of mentally disabled individuals, and to plan focusing of provided social services on individual and effective incorporation of a mentally disabled person into his/her common life or to remove obstacles hindering from his/her incorporation. Usability and functionality of the evaluation tool entitled ``3P {--} Profil Potřebné Podpory`` (the Support Intensity Profile) were tested in a real environment. 20 users of social services and employees of protected workshops were included in a research set of studied persons with mild and moderate mental retardation in the age from 19 to 46 years.
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Adaptation process of clients in senior home G - centrum Tábor
PĚCHOTOVÁ, Blanka
The objective of this work is to reveal the human attitude to overcoming difficulties and map the problems brought about by their inclusion to the senior home.The qualitative research was used in the work.The basic technique applied was a standardised interview with respondents during which closed and semiclosed questions were asked, and the technique of semi-standardised interview with the social workers. The research results have shown that seniors associate their entrance to a social institute with the expectation to receive assistance in managing difficult siotuations in their lives.As their capabilities decrease,they seek safety,company,the provision of care and security in its availability.
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Stress factors in the job of social worker
KLEJMOVÁ, Jaroslava
The bachelor thesis deals theoretically and practically with the aspects concerning stressogenic factors in the profession of social workers working in non-profit sector. Stress is described as civilization illness attacking us in our everyday life. The goal of this work is to identify the subjectively perceived stress factors affecting the social worker working in non-profit sphere. The bachelor thesis is focused particularly on the specification of negative stress, i.e. distress. The introductory part of the work deals with the issue of stress in general, with its terminology, displays, stress reactions and strategies of stress mastering in general. After this general theoretic part, the work focuses on the central area, i.e. on the particularities of stress in social worker profession and on the general context of social worker profession unifying a number of factors that can affect social worker's activity. So the goal of the work is not ascertaining how stressogenic factors affect social worker's activity in general; it would exceed the possibilities of the work. The goal of this work is only uncover a bit of the stressogenic factors affecting social workers at performing their profession. Partial intention of the research consists in ascertaining what coping strategies social workers use when mastering specific stressogenic situations, as well as in uncovering what reasons could lead social workers to the decision of leaving their profession. Qualitative research was selected to ascertain those goals. The method of semi-structured interview with open-ended questions was used for data collection. The group of respondents consisted of social workers working in the following non-profit organizations: Auritus Tábor, CheironT Tábor, Fokus Tábor, Kaňka Sezimovo Ústí 2. Eleven interviews were made in total.The research demonstrated that social worker profession is very demanding, laying great demands on social worker{\crq}s personality, and that high level of social worker{\crq}s engagement is needed. I specified a number of stressors related to the performance of this profession in my work.
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Involuntary Client in Social Work
VÍŠKOVÁ, Michaela
The objective of my work is to survey what kinds of social work tools motivate, from the view of a social worker, an involuntary client to change his/her current situation and start working with a social worker. In the theoretical part of my diploma work I first deal with general topics, I focus on the typology of clients and relation and communication with clients. Within the section that is dedicated to the involuntary client solely I deal with the characteristics of such a client and ethical dilemmas in respect of the relation to this client. Furthermore, I present some recommendations for work with an involuntary client and I concentrate more on motivating the client. The chapter that deals with specific features of social work with addictive substances users, as one of the groups of involuntary clients, forms an extensive part of the theoretical part. In order to achieve the set objective, I have chosen a combination of quantitative and qualitative research. The data have been collected by means of anonymous questionnaires and non-standardized dialogues with 144 social workers in the Vysočina Region. Within the research I study the experience of social workers with work with involuntary clientele, further I focus on methods and techniques used at work with involuntary clients and on theoretical bases of this work as well. The survey also aims to determine the diversity in the approach of social workers in respect of voluntary and involuntary clientele. Following the evaluation of the survey outputs it can be said that a majority of social workers meet involuntary clients at their work. However, not all the workers consider the use of a specific approach to such clients important. A possible improvement in this respect may, in my opinion, be brought by educational courses that focus on the issues of involuntary clientele. Supervision plays an irreplaceable role here, too. The results of my diploma work may be used for the needs of further research, teaching and in order to enhance the knowledge of the issues of involuntary clientele.
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Psychosocial load at work of nurses and social workers
KUŘÁTKOVÁ, Lucie
The Thesis deals with the questions of psychosocial load at work for nurses and social workers. The Thesis is divided into two sections. The theoretical part deals with definitions of terms like caring professions, load and stress, then load at work and psychosocial load. There is also a brief characteristic of the professions of a nurse and a social worker. The aim of the empiric part was to find out on a selected sample of respondents (i.e. nurses and social workers) how the respondents perceive the character of their psychosocial load at work and whether they are at risk of burnout syndrome, to find out whether nurses or social workers perceive the psychosocial load more intensely and whether there is a difference in the risk of burnout syndrome between them. A quantitative questioning method and questionnaire technique were applied on data collection and processing in the research part of the Thesis. An anonymous questionnaire was used for the investigation. The questionnaire preparation was based on a questionnaire provided by my thesis guide. The original questionnaire was more extensive and was only designed for nurses, which was why I had to select suitable items and add some special items applicable on nurses as well as social workers. The questionnaire consisted mainly of closed questions where the respondents chose from five answers the one best corresponding with their own opinion. I set 3 hypotheses before starting the research itself. The questionnaire answers were processed both, manually by means of the stroke method and by a statistic programme SPSS. Segment and bar graphs in Microsoft Office Excel were used for graphical interpretation of the results. After evaluation of the questionnaire research results I found out that the previously set hypothesis H1 suggesting that nurses and social workers perceive various elements of their psychosocial load differently, was confirmed, hypothesis H2 suggesting that nurses are more loaded by the work with patients/clients than social workers was not confirmed, and hypothesis H3 suggesting that nurses are at higher risk of burnout syndrome than social workers was confirmed. The results of my thesis may serve to inform general public as well as professionals on the problems in question. They may also serve as a possible incentive for managerial staff to pay higher attention to the problems of psychosocial load at work among caring professions at individual medical care facilities. The results may also serve as a base for further studies and research in the field.
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A Social Worker in a Mobile Hospice (A Position of a Social Worker in a Multispecialty Team
NOVÁKOVÁ, Markéta
This dissertation deals with a question of dying, accompanying and a service of incurable patients in all forms of hospice treatment only marginally. I am mainly focusing on a homecare service as well as on the role of a social worker there. The first part is about a principle of hospice, accompanying and palliative care. It is describing several forms of hospice service including ethic problems. The next part is telling about begining of social work as a part of paliative medicine and describing a contexture between these two branches A question of voluntary work is also mentioned there. The third part is dealing about multispecialty team and a contexture among particular professional occupations, including social worker and his role, his position in the team, activities, competences, knowledge and abilities etc. The fourth part of this essay is about social work in a mobile hospice and about the importace of taking care of oneself as a burn-out prevention. The last, (fifth, sixth, seventh) parts introduce operative part , where I am trying to introduce information achieved through descriptive metod of interwiev with particular members of the multispecialty team and with the concrete mobile hospice social worker.
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