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The Availability of Social and Consecutive Services for the Homeless in the Klatovy District
Makrlíková, Petra ; Šťastná, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Poláčková, Iva (referee)
The aim of the diploma thesis ,,The Availability of Social and Consecutive Services for the Homeless in the Klatovy District" is to determinate the real availability of services in the Klatovy district and the awareness of people without shelter about the possibilities of assistance. Theoretical part explains the terms exclusion, poverty and homelessness (identification, causes, consequences). The theoretical part in the second chapter discusses the possibilities of social work with people without shelter. There are defined participants who engaged in problems of homelessness at the beginning. The work defines the social services, social benefits and the process of reintegration subsequently. The theoretical part presents some housing models - Housing Ready, Housing First and Social Housing in the end. Practical part is the most important part of the thesis. There is the social demographic analysis of the Klatovy region in the beginning. The main section contains research work. The results of the research indicate that the services are available for people from the Klatovy region more than for other candidates. Currently the majority of the services have sufficient capacity, but their permeability isn't assured. Persons without shelter are not adequately informed, most of the information obtain...
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Growing old needs „good strong story“: perspective of narrative gerontology
Chrz, Vladimír ; Dubovská, Eva ; Poláčková Šolcová, Iva ; Hrabec, Ondřej
Our contribution summarizes a number of studies aimed at resilience and integrity in old age. As a unifying Framework, we use a supposition of narrative gerontology (W.Randall), that the good aging is a creative work and the „story we live by“. Narrative gerontology is a part of a more general approach in social sciences, which assumes, that our experience, thinking, acting or identity are construed narratively. The narrative approach enables the understanding of the fact that resilience or integrity in old age needs „good strong story“. The stories that provide continuity, unity, course, and meaning to our experience, can be studied utilizing various types of narrative analysis. Presented are the results of the research of resilience in old age, where we identified several story genres. These are enabling to live the successful life against various troubles, which are connected with old age.
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What accounts for successful aging? – A dialogical self view
Filip, Miroslav ; Poláčková Šolcová, Iva
From the psychological perspective, older adults who are unsuccessful in aging (experiencing, for instance, depression, low well-being, or low life satisfaction) have been often considered unable to accept their own past including life losses. However, such an explanation may be too trivial. For example, an inability to accept the past may be a natural component of depressive thinking and not a separate variable that accounts for depression. Unsuccessful aging can alternatively be explained by focusing on processes of meaning construction of various aspects of one’s own life. The theory of the dialogical self describes these processes in terms of the development of an internal dialogue. An aging-successful older adult should develop a lifereviewing internal dialogue with adaptive features, such as differentiation or integration of various and often contradictory „I-positions.” Methods: Narrative analyses based on the theory of the dialogical self were applied to Life Story Interviews with 32 older adults (aged from 70 to 93 years). According to the presence of the adaptive features in narratives, various types of life-reviewing internal dialogues were identi-fied. The validity of these types was examined by their scores on the Reminiscence Function Scale (RFS). Respondents who used the respective types were compared in terms of well-being (Mood Adjective Checklist - MAC) and meaningfulness of life (Meaning in Life Questionnaire - MLQ). Results/Discussion: The narrative analysis yielded three types of life-reviewing dialogues according to how they are elaborated and adaptive: differentiated dialogue (low adaptive), progressive dialogue, and integrated dialogue (highly adaptive). The validity of these types was sup-\nported by differences on the RFS: participants with the progressive dialogue reported more frequent reminiscence activities to resolve past conflicts and to reconstruct their identity. As hy-\npothesized, scores indicating successful aging on the scales MAC and MLQ were higher in respondents with the integrated life-reviewing dialogue.
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The Foster Care for Temporary Period From the Point of View of The Foster Parents in South-Moravian Region
Buriánková, Lucie ; Pazlarová, Hana (advisor) ; Poláčková, Iva (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to determine the attitude of the temporary foster caregivers in the South Moravian region towards the institute of temporary foster care, mainly focused on the strong and weak points in relation to the placed children. The theoretical part of the text describes the history of foster care and its current forms. It analyzes the qualities the future foster caregivers must have and their preparation, what happens after the caregivers are entered into evidence and what kind of support is provided to them during their work. It is followed by the determination of the target group of children and the process of the care from the preparation happening prior to placing the child all the way to the child leaving the foster care. The last chapter is devoted to the pros and cons of such arrangement. The practical part provides a qualitative research analysis, using semi-structured interviews with the temporary foster caregivers.
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