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The risks of suicidal behavior among adolescents:diagnostic, interventional and preventive option
Nekolná, Hana ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Loneková, Katarína (referee)
The diploma thesis "Risks of suicidal behavior among adolescents: Diagnostic, intervention and preventive options" deals with suicidality and suicidal behavior among adolescents in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the basic terms of this topic, various approaches and understanding of this issue in the past and in the present. This work also deals with the forms, methods and motives of suicidal behavior. Furthermore it describes the age of adolescence as an independent evolutionary period in the life of man and analyses the risks of this life era. The theoretical part also contains a description of the epidemiology of this phenomenon and possible diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive approaches to suicidal behavior. The empirical part of this thesis describes the research in which the goal was to determine the connection of the increase of suicidal risk and the basic dimension of the personality (using the Freiburg's Personality Inventory), social support (by the Perceived Social Support Scale) and life engagement (through the Life Engagement Test). The research sample contained 99 respondents from the last years of one of Prague's grammar school and two of Prague's vocational schools. The results of this research confirmed the connection between a lowered suicidal...
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Quality of Life, Satisfaction with Life, Social Self-efficacy and People after Acquired Brain Injury.
Lišková, Kateřina ; Šivicová, Gabriela (advisor) ; Kebza, Vladimír (referee)
This thesis is focused on quality of life theme, satisfaction with life topic and social self- efficacy subject, with emphasizing of the acquired brain injury context and specific and unique brain injury consequences. Thesis is based on theoretical fundament of all mentioned concepts, but mainly there are actual quantitative data and results of quality of life, satisfaction with life and social self-efficacy and other-efficacy in the framework of acquired brain injury research sample in Czech Republic. Not only description of quality of different life parts subjective perception, but also search of possible relationships strength between quality of life and social efficacy has been probed. All of these has been used in application of lots of standardized and also new questionnaire and methods. Keywords: acquired brain injury, quality of life, satisfaction with life, social self-efficacy, social other- efficacy
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Analysis of a cultural organisation attendance and marketing methods for its enhancement on example of branch library Praha-Ďáblice
Kebza, Vladimír ; Johnova, Radka (advisor) ; Šušáková, Zdeňka (referee)
The thesis deals with marketing in the field of cultural organizations, more specifically, of public libraries. The thesis's theoretical part first defines the basic concepts which are related to the mentioned topic. The objective of the thesis is to suggest precise steps which would lead to enhance the usage or the attendance of the branch library Městská knihovna Praha - Ďáblice. This is achieved in the practical part of the thesis, namely by an exploration of the library's marketing tools including its environment, then by an analysis of an unpublished document that was worked out by the library, dealing with some specific information related to all branches' usage, and after all, by evaluating an orientational research that was realized by an virtual questionnaire. Keywords Library, attendance, usage, marketing, Ďáblice
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Coping strategies in chronic pain: actualization and restandardisation of the DCB3 inventory
Brožek, Tomáš ; Kebza, Vladimír (referee) ; Niederlová, Markéta (referee)
An actualised and restandardized method for assessment of positive coping in chronic pain is presented. The coping with pain inventory (DCB 3) consists of three scales: Defiance (8 items, Cronbach's α = 0,89), Determination (5, 0,81) and Acceptance (5, 0,78). Relitability and validity was examined on the sample of 120 patients of the Military rehabilitation facility Slapy (60 Male, 60 Female, mean age 54,1, SD 12), suffering from longtime or chronic pain. The validity criteria were inventories of the Pain center in the Teaching hospital in Motol. All scales were standardised. Key words: Fear of pain, coping with pain, positive coping with pain inventory, positive emotions, chronic pain
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Consciousness and unconsciousness. Theoretical analysis
Skála, Pavel ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Uhlář, Pavel (referee)
This theoretical study is looking into consciousness, unconsciousness and concepts that are associated with it. It also goes back to the historical approach to these two terms, yet it points out the terminological obstacles that are inseparably connected with them. Both constructs are being discussed from an integrated perspective therefore neither mapping of the neurobiology of consciousness nor the summary of the major approaches to the philosophical mind-body problem, is left out of consideration. The unconsciousness research methods are divided according to the predominant focus into experimental and clinical. The study also covers an analysis as well as a review of significant theoretical approaches to consciousness and unconsciousness. These theoretical concepts were classified based on distinction of relevant scientific disciplines that are used to describe the problems in question. Neurobiological, psychological and philosophical theories were later categorized according to this method. The final conclusion brings a complex overview of these topics previously dealt with in the study. It attempts to integrate the findings into a comprehensive framework and to deal with some general issues that indicate possibilities and limits of the theoretical and practical research into both phenomena....
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Mindfulness and mindfulness-based treatment approaches
Žitník, Jiří ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Šípek, Jiří (referee)
Theoretical section focuses on the concept of mindfulness, its historical background, variety of theoretical approaches and definitions of mindfulness. On this basis I provide own definition of mindfulness. Then, I present an overview of the features and characteristics of mindfulness, its applications in clinical environment, mindfulness-based approaches, effective therapeutic factors, and also its use with specific mental disorders. I also address neural correlates of mindfulness, developmental aspects of mindfulness and overview of measurement methods. Empirical section consists of standardization of Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire for the Czech population and verification of its factor model. Further I monitored the relation of mindfulness to chosen demographic variables. Results showed modestly significant correlation with age and education, and independence of sex and overall mindfulness score. In four subscales of the questionnaire, however, sexes differed. The hypothesis that mindfulness is related to profession was also confirmed. Highest mindfulness scores were reached by helping professions, especially psychotherapists, lowest scores were reached by technical professions. Next, results confirmed the hypothesis about relation between mindfulness and life satisfaction (cognitive...
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The concept of life events and their impact on the health of individual
Šonová, Barbora ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Loneková, Katarína (referee)
The first part of the thesis is focused on the theoretical presentation of the life events concept and their influence on the health of man. After introductory definition of the focal idea of the thesis and brief description of the historical development of the life events research the author proceeds to the list of /psychic and somatic illnesses that are most frequently connected with the occurence of life changes. The theoretical part of the thesis also deals with the factors on both an individual's and living environment side that may modify the perception of life events and their impact on the human health to a great extent. Furthermore the mechanisms of the influence of stress situations cannot be omitted. In a separate chapter the thesis deals with key methodological aspects of the research in the field of observation and in the end it covers other related themes that deserve to be noticed but could not be included in the theoretical part because of its limited scope. Last chapter briefly presents critical comments on discussed topic. In the empirical part of the thesis the author presents her own research that have been done at the sample of 258 respondents of the Finnish nationality. Using the set of questionnaires, the relationship between the life event occurence and health changes has been...
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Systematic Review of Researches Trstiny Movement and Body Techniques in the Treatement of Eating Disorders
Adámková Ségard, Milena ; Hátlová, Běla (advisor) ; Hošek, Václav (referee) ; Kebza, Vladimír (referee)
Title: Systematic Review of Researches Testing Movement and Body Techniques in the Treatment of Eating Disorders. Goal: The goal of this research is to organize the knowledge of past therapeutic researches and cross- connect this knowledge gained through experiments for the benefit of daily psychotherapeutic work and future researches. Methods: The design of the study follows the design of Systematic Review, which carries the highest evidence in the hierarchy of scientific evidence, and which offers the strongest knowledge for practical use. In this research were included studies testing Movement and Body Techniques on samples of patients with Eating Disorders and which were published in English till the year 2008. Results: This research confirms that for the treatment of eating disorders, therapies using body and movement oriented techniques have been used, tested and published since 1970. By the end of the year 2008 there are 41 published researches in the English language. The evidence-based quality of the researches in this field is very good. In 59% of the studies, the strength of the evidence reaches the third of four levels of scientific evidence. The studies included in the review, show that the treatments under discussion have positive effects in the healing of eating disorders. The study also...
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How the psychotherapists experince and cope with a failure in psychotherapy.
Jakubů, Jiří ; Srnec, Jan (advisor) ; Kebza, Vladimír (referee) ; Kožnar, Jan (referee)
Abstract. This study aims at examining how psychotherapists experience and cope with failure in their therapeutic practice. We have designed a questionnaire on coping with failure and by employing the ESK existential scale we explored the set of 100 psychoterapists, consisting of 55 females and 45 males, in total 48 psychologists, 29 physicians and 23 workers in helping professions, all between 25 - 64 years of age, of various psychoterapeutic approaches. We have focused on all 3 aspects of coping - emotional, cognitive and practicalbehavioral. At the same time we have examined situations that therapists perceive as a failure, significant failures they have experienced, and what helped them tocope with them and whether their beliefs, conviction or values help them in coping with emotional and mental stress, caused by failure. Our findings correspond to few papers on this issue, that is dropouts, therapists' feeling, stress and failure. Failure is an important emotional stress at the psychotherapist's practice. Typical failures are client' s suicide, dropout, retirement from therapy, as well as deterioration of bodily symptoms, social relations and relations to oneself during the therapy. This perceived therapists' failure tends to be connected with intense negative feelings of anger, anxiety, sorrow, guilt,...
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Burnout syndrome - diagnostic possibilities (comparative study)
Vlachovská, Barbora ; Kebza, Vladimír (advisor) ; Niederlová, Markéta (referee)
The theoretical part deals with key issues of burnout - a definition, phase of syndrome, diagnostic classification, prevention, and mainly deals with the description of the methods by which the level of burnout is detected. Now probably the most common diagnostic tools are the MBI (Maslach Burnout Inventory) and its derivatives (eg. MBI-General Survey), but there are many other methods, such as developed by Israeli and European psychologists (BoTeLis, OLBI, CBI, MBS, etc.). The goal is to assemble a relatively complete overview of these diagnostic tools.In the empirical part, is to verify the psychometric properties of Czech version of the selected methods on a set of population, describe and analyze their characteristics.
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