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The Elderly and Spirituality: Spiritual Needs in Daily Life
SUCHOMELOVÁ, Věra
The currenly growing preference for "active aging" aims to promote the longest possible physical and mental vitality. Caring for the spiritual development and spiritual needs of older people is usually thought to be a private matter, or an area within the competence of churches, and related to traditionally religious older people. With regard to the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual unity of the person, it is evident that spirituality ? and spiritual needs as its expression ? belong in the life of every individual, though it is primarily an individual experience linked to a particular personality and life history. Through spirituality they seek to answer questions relating to the purpose and pursuit of life, to higher values, to the processing of suffering and evil, and to some questions having eschatological character. This dissertation defines spirituality's everyday place on the path to a good life in old age. The empirical part of the dissertation is a qualitative study called Spiritual Needs in the Daily Life of the Elderly in Southern Bohemia. The first part shows the development of religiosity or spirituality of two dozen South Bohemians over seventy-five years, focusing on the period of early religious socialization, stages of working life under the rule of Communism, and the present form of religiosity or spirituality. The second part presents a possible typology of their fundamental spiritual needs: dignity, sense of continuity in ones life story, hope, faith and love. On the basis of these findings, recommendations are then put forward for pastoral, social, and geragogical practices.
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Spirituality in the Treatment of Drug Addictions
ZAHRADNÍKOVÁ, Kateřina
The thesis deals with the spirituality of a drug addiction therapy. The first chapter classifies drugs and characterizes drug addictions and their therapies. To clear up the context and point of view, the second chapter explains the meaning of spirituality in relation to its development. First, it intorduces the ancient spirituality, based on heatheninsmas, a meaning of Sanctity in relation to our ethnic origin. Further on, it pictures the Christian spirituality with its practical aspects. Next, the spirituality is viewed through psychology with the central idea of the sense of life. This part highlights diverse views of various authors which are put to one common context. Furthermore, the second chapter describes the connections between spirituality, drug addictions and therapeutic methods using spiritual aspects which appear to be useful in the therapy of drug addictions.
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Psychological facet of pastoral care
LOJÍKOVÁ, Pavlína
The thesis describes pastoral care from the perspective of psychology; more precisely, it examines the psychological facet of the pastoral care. The theoretical part describes the pastoral care as a help to a human in the context of faith. Next, psychological intervention is described in the form of psychotherapy, psychological counseling, crisis intervention and psychodiagnostics. Some views of the relationship and connection between the pastoral work and the psychology follow and after that, some psychological means used or usable in the pastoral care are proposed. The key research question is how the pastor reflects his pastoral work. Using depth interviews, data from five professional pastors of different Christian denominations were acquired. Using grounded theory method, a three-phase model, which captures the possible course of the pastoral care, was created. The existence and working of God is taken into account. In the pastoral care, more practical topics than spiritual ones are dealt with, and besides spiritual factors, human factors also help the people in the pastoral care. It was found that psychological elements occur in the pastoral care, but its goals are different from the psychological intervention.
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Tabor Family centre position
SOVADINOVÁ, Marie
My bachelor work ``Tabor Family centre position{\crq}q deals with the social and pastoral view on families and opportunities to help and uphold families via family supporting activities. It analyses foundation and development of ``The Tabor family centre{\crq}q, its position (scope), opportunities and further orientation and also potential interest of habitants in family supporting activities. Via questionnaire research analyses and is dealing with opportunities of ``The Tabor family centre{\crq}q activities.
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The Spiritual Care in Hospitals in the South Bohemia region
HRUBÁ, Jitka
Spiritual Care in Hospitals in the South Bohemian Region In contemporary holistic perspective, we see man as an integrated unity existing and functioning in four dimensions. These are biological, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions. All these spheres create a whole; they are inseparable and they influence each other. Therefore, caring for the ill can be characterized as a combination of these aspects {--} taking care of his biological needs, assistance in his social needs, identification and fulfilling of his psychological needs and help in meeting his spiritual needs. Spiritual needs are inherent in man{\crq}s nature and so it would be erroneous to suppose that they are present and pronounced only in people who are believers. The intensity of the urge to satisfy these needs changes during life. Research done on this topic has revealed that this kind of need intensifies in old age and illness. In some countries, it is already common that hospitals employ spiritual workers or hospital chaplains. In the Czech Republic, there has been a discussion going on regarding the introduction of the hospital chaplain function and several hospitals have one already. The goal of this work is to present an overview of the offer and ways of providing spiritual care in the individual hospitals in the South Bohemian region and to find out whether the offer of spiritual care in these hospitals corresponds with the needs and interest of the patients. The work should also find out what kind of spiritual assistance the patients are interested in {--} whether they would welcome if the hospitals employed their own chaplains or if regular visit of a clergyman suffice, and also, who should perform the role of the hospital chaplain {--} whether a clergyman or a qualified layman. The hypotheses will be verified through a quantitative research. To find out the intensity and kind of interest of patients in satisfying their spiritual needs and to ascertain the level of their satisfaction with offered services, a method of questionning will be used. The research will be conducted through a standardized questionnaire and a guided interview with patients who are unable to fill it in. Possible ways of satisfying spiritual needs will be assessed by the method of questionning through guided interviews with head nurses in the individual hospitals in the South Bohemian region.
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Pastoral Care of the Noe Community
PLAVCOVÁ, Hana
The work describes pastoral care activities of the Noe Community, analyses these activites from the pastoral and theological points of view, and recommends steps which could be taken to deepen the effects of such pastoral care. The aim of the pastoral care of the Noe Community is to inspire people with whom the community works to start searching for salvation. The tree basic ways of realizing such a goal are supported by the community: offering free time activities and personality-formation courses, personal guiding and offering helping interviews, and organizing activities for the whole village community. The target group which the pastoral care is aimed at are youth and young adults, both believers and non-believers. The basic theological principle from which the whole pastoral care stems is the principle of inculturation. It serves as a starting point for four criteria of the youth pastoral care {--} searching and finding the common language, practising an individual approach to each person, offering specific spirituality, and personal and subject-matter offer. These are the criteria for evaluation of the pastoral care activities of the Noe Community.
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Pastoral Care in Prisons and the Following Spiritual Care for the Released
PEŠEK, Pavel
The thesis deals with the standard of spiritual care provided in prisons and stockades in the Czech Republic, and pastoral care in the St. Peter´s Asylum House in Záblatí. The theoretical part defines concepts of Christianity and pastoral care and it is focused on prisons in the Czech Republic and spiritual care that is provided in there. There is described and explained the concept of spiritual care in prisons. It examines the complicated situations of released prisoners. The practical part includes the research methodology, characteristics of the examined sample and description of research method. Questionnaire investigation was used for gaining information from prison chaplains. Semi-structured inverviews were used for gaining information from respondents. Data processing resulted into the final summary. The aim of the whole thesis is to find out a positive influence of pastoral care on people who found themselves in oppressive life situations.
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Young People´s Motivation for Working in Diocesan Centre of Young´s Life in Connection with Expectancy of Church
HRONOVÁ, Kateřina
The study deals with young people in the age of young adulthood and their motivation for working in Diocesan centres of young's life. The study describes these centres, where team of young people and priest lives. They participate on pastoral care of czech youth. It charts establishment and role of this houses. It describes spiritual and material aspect of Diocesan centres of young's life. Furthermore the work investigates the positive motives which affect on decision to enter a team and work there. According to this, the study deals with position of youth in the church in Czech republic and also in the whole church and describes the main stream of pastoral care in Czech republic, which is leaded by Czech bishops' conference.
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Needs of dying people in Štrasburk Hospice
MIKŠOVÁ, Libuše
The title of the bachalor{\crq}s thesis is: The needs of dying people in Štrasburk Hospice. It deals with the issue of how to accommodate needs of dying people. A dying human being has needs of various kinds: biological, psychological, social and spiritual. Palliative care in hospices is characterised by the fact it provides the client, i.e. the dying man/woman, with complex treatment which is focused on satisfying all of the said needs. The goal of such care is to accomplish the best possible quality of life in clients and their families. The theoretical part dwells on palliative care and palliative medicine, history of hospices, the status quo in palliative care in hospices around the Czech Republic, and particular details of the care provided in hospices. Later, it explains in detail the terms of suffering, pain, dying, and death. It takes a perspective of human needs and subsequently the needs of dying man, it includes a detailed summary of individual needs. Futher on, it discusses the issues of tellin people the truth, how tu attend the dying people, and pastoral care/counselling. The research part of the thesis is based on the qualitative survey using the methods of questioning and technique of non-standardized, semi-controlled interview. Another additional method introduced in the research was involved observation. The research group contained 9 clients of the Štrasburk Hospice. The objective was to monitor the fulfilment of a holistic approach to hospice clients and to find out which of their needs are saturated only thanks to hospice care and, while dying, which needs are considered most important by the clients. The outcome of the survey showed that the hospice provides a complex care which includes meeting the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of the clients. Fulfilment of the spiritual needs could be improved in some aspects. It was also concluded that among the needs saturated only thanks to the hospice care, sufficient privacy ended first as the most valued service provided, staff attitude was the second most valued quality, and better surroundings ended third. The most essential needs from clients` perspective are: not to be left alone, stay close to their families and friends, not to suffer from pain.
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Helping hand in crossing over
LASCHOVÁ, Daniela
The thesis deals with palliative and hospice care. The thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. In the theoretical part there are provided with basic information about palliative care, it describes aspects of palliative care in terms of spiritual, social, psychological and physical. There are also recorded information on facilities that provide palliative care, their characteristic, mission and goals. The thesis is also reported on problems of dying, suffering and death. The work also records a pastoral and social care about dying seniors, a description of a multidisciplinary team of hospice care. The practikal part of the thesis is reported on a detection rate of awareness of palliative and hospice care at the clients of caritas Týn nad Vltavou. Next the research found out the respondents opinion of dignified dying in a domestic care
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