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Coping with stress among pathological gamblers in ambulant treatment
Tauchmanová, Karolína ; Šťastná, Lenka (advisor) ; Vacek, Jaroslav (referee)
AIMS: The aim of this thesis was to find out how pathological gamblers deal with stress situations and which particular coping strategies they use. The assumption based on previous research is that pathological gamblers tend to overuse negative coping strategies instead of positive strategies. METHODS: The research took place within ambulance treatment in the Clinic of Addictology of the General University Hospital in Prague and was realized with group of seven participants. The results were obtained using quantitative and qualitative research methods and the main tools were SOGS, SOC, SVF78 and anamnestic questionnaire which helped to identify the demographic data. RESULTS: The obtained outcomes correspond to previous studies and suggest that participants tend to overuse negative coping strategies such as self-blaming, resignation and perseverance in stressful situations. At the same time, their confidence towards the world is reduced, which means that they perceive the world as messy and incomprehensible. CONCLUSION: The research could be used to engage in professional practice in terms of training appropriate coping strategies that pathological gamblers could apply in stressful situations. In order to verify the outcomes, it would be necessary to carry out a complementary study to include...
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Connection between addictive behavior on the Internet and substance use among university students in the humanities and technical field
Kropáčková, Sabina ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Vondráčková, Petra (referee)
Studies dealing with research about the connection between the addictive behavior on the internet and the use of addictive substance are not a lot and it was never proved their direct connection. The research of this thesis is focused on the research of their the connection. I chose the population of university as a research group, in which I wanted to confirm or refute this connection. Primarily the main reason of this research was to find out the connection between the addictive behavior on the internet and the use of addictive substance, farther also the differences between two different university fields, in which could be expected differences in the exploration of addictive behavior. For the purposes of this research was chosen questionnaire form of data collection, those questionnaires were distributed to the students directly in the classroom. The selection of the research group was randomly selected representatives of the technical and humanities field - they were chosen students of cybernetics and robotics filed of the faculty of electrotechnics of ČVUT, as a typical representative of techincal sphere, and students of psychology field of the faculty of phylosophy of Charles Univesity, which is a typical humanitarian field. The data were recoded into the program IBM SPSS and described by...
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Substance use among students of addictology
Kubičová, Lucie ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Libra, Jiří (referee)
Addictology is a multidisciplinary field of addictive behavior. The theme of my thesis is the effort to find a possible connection between the selection of the given field and the use of addictive substances by the students of addictology or by someone in their immediate vicinity. The final thesis from previous years show that addictology students have a higher prevalence of alcohol consumption than general medicine students and dental students, and that more than half of all students in the Bachelor's cycle study smoking tobacco. The aim of this research study is to determine the extent of addictive behavior among students of addictology and then to compare it with students of other university disciplines. I suppose that the extent of addictive behavior will be higher among students of addictology than students of other university disciplines. The data was obtained through an anonymous electronic questionnaire filled out by 220 students of different schools and subjects. A survey sample of respondents was divided into an experimental group of addictology students and a control group of students of other higher education disciplines. At the statistical level of significance, I have succeeded in verifying the hypothesis that addictology students have a higher degree in their immediate vicinity of a...
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Working with spirituality of addiction services clients from the perspective of professionals
Šormová, Monika ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Dolista, Josef (referee)
Starting-point of this work is the conflict of that spiritual dimension of holistic approach is mentioned in professional literature as an contributing element in preventing and successful treatment of addiction and other diseases. Less mentioned is how sepcifically working with klients spierituality looks like. Therefore, the aim of this study is to describe how addiction service workers perceive spirituality, whether and how they work with this dimension and where they see the benefitst of working with it. The research method was semi-structured interview, which was analysed by the elements od grounded theory - namely the open coding. Then the significant phenomena was sorted by relevance, and put into a broader context. In disscusion there are results compared with findings from the theoretical partof this work. The research has shown, that the addiction service workers sees spirituality as a way on which person is evolving. They are not holding back in working with spirituality, on the contrary, they show respect for the area and the needs associated with it. They are capable and willing to adapt their work with clients to that needs, especially in terms of guiding the client through the procces of realizing that dimensions by themselves. Addiction services workers perceive work with...
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ADHD and cannabinoid use as a form of self-medication
Karchňáková, Zuzana ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Svěcená, Kateřina (referee)
BASIC POSTULATES: It is common the people affected by ADHD consume addictive substances, seeking relief from their sensations of motorical unease and to disturb their rationalising and thinking. Using these substances subjectively improves their abilities, reducing the undesired and unpleasant sensations emanating from the ADHD, possibly even creating enjoyable and desirable moods. The resulting problem is, this self-medication causes troubles in many aspects, detectable only gradually after longer periods of consumption. What starts as an effort to paliate the undesirable symptoms of ADHD and other effects thereof, progressively becomes seeking a solution to harmful consumption of marihuana and, in extreme cases, additiction to cannabinoids. OBJECTIVES: The main objective of this thesis is to find out what is the purpose of the people with ADHD diagnosis in taking cannabis. The focus as put on whether cannabis is used to treat the symptoms of ADHD or not (regardless of the diagnosis). It was also important to map what other addictive substances use if self-medication using cannabis. METHODS: Semi-structured was chosen for the purposes of research. The questionnaires were used from L. Adler ASRS -V1 Adler.1 - Report (Adult ADHD Self Scale). Cannabis Use Disorders Identification Test (CUDIT) from...
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Possibilities of providing harm reduction and therapeutic interventions to cannabis users in drop-in centres and outreach programmes: qualitative analysis of employee opinions in Prague and Central Bohemian Region
Púčiková, Dominika ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Brenza, Jiří (referee)
Introduction:. In 2014, there were 180 thousand problematic users of drugs in the Czech Republic. Action plan of the realisation of National strategy of anti-drug politics in the Czech Republic concentrates on lowering the degree and risk of marijuana usage, while in the first period no specific programs for target group have been realised. In 2015, 2400 marijuana consumers were using low-threshold treatment programs. Topic of cannabis related drug users in drop-in centres and outreach programs appears at the expert meetings, though there is a lack of systematically developed material, which would be include good practice of low- threshold treatment programs for the target group. Aim: Primary aim of thesis is to provide a qualitative analysis of opinions of drop-in centers and outreach programs employees in Prague and Central Bohemian region regarding the possibility of offering harm reduction and therapeutic interventions to cannabis users. Thesis could serve as a summary of good practice of harm reduction services in the Czech Republic and become a material that could help individual services in the formulation of concept, respectively in changing and evaluating the work with cannabis users. Methodology: Data were collected via semi-structured interviews and were subsequently analysed using...
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Gender differences in perception of hagiotherapy in therapeutic process of men and women addiction treatment in the Psychiatric hospital Bohnice
Herešová, Alice ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Remeš, Prokop (referee)
The aim of this study is to analyze gender differences in perception of hagiotherapy in therapeutic process of men and women addiction treatment in the Psychiatric hospital Bohnice. The first part of the thesis is intended to be a theoretical framework for the following practical survey and this part deals with the terms of gender, gender differences in addiction, gender specific addiction and recovery treatment and describes the existential psychotherapy, the group psychotherapy and hagiography as a special form of group existential psychotherapy. The second part of the thesis deals with the research, which contains utterances of 16 respondents who took part in the hagiotherapy in the Psychiatric hospital Bohnice. A method of semi- structured interview was used and the utterances were analyzed in detail in order to reveal gender differences. The method of the open and axial coding were used, particular categories were described and compared. The research part of the thesis confirms that there truly are major gender differences between men and women in treatment, but not in the perception of the hagiotherapy, but in the way they process singular impulses and in the way they are affected by the hagiotherapy. Gender plays a major role in several aspects and the most significant differences can be...
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ADHD and cannabinoid use as a form of self-medication
Karchňáková, Zuzana ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Svěcená, Kateřina (referee)
1 Abstract BASIC POSTULATES: It is common the people affected by ADHD consume addictive substances such as alcohol, marihuana, heroin, sedatives, analgetics, nicotine, caffeine, sugar, cocaine or street-produced amphetamines, seeking relief from their sensations of motorical unease and to disturb their rationalising and thinking (Downs, 2013). Using these substances subjectively improves their abilities, reducing the undesired and unpleasant sensations emanating from the ADHD, possibly even creating enjoyable and desirable moods. The resulting problem is, this self-medication causes troubles in many aspects, detectable only gradually after longer periods of consumption. What starts as an effort to paliate the undesirable symptoms of ADHD and other effects thereof, progressively becomes seeking a solution to harmful consumption of marihuana and, in extreme cases, additiction to cannabinoids (Jensen, 2013). OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this thesis is to analyse adult ADHD, regardless of whether they have been diagnosed, yet with perduring symptoms, and who have never been medicated and now use marihuana as self-medication. The main objective is to determine whether respondents subjectively realise when cannabis helps them to relieve their internal unease and when not. Besides, it is also to learn if we can...
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Monitoring the prevalence and mapping patterns of drug use in adolescence in the present problem drug users: a pilot verification of retrospective method of questioning
Vodička, Richard ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Matoušek, Petr (referee)
Starting point: The use or overuse of cannabis is still considered among the general public to be highly risky mainly for the reason that (apparently) it only precedes the use or it is a form of an entrance gate to the world of use of so called "hard drugs", which are especially stimulants and opiates, injected, therefore again by a very risky way. Regardless the interaction and impact of a wide range of other socioeconomic, personal and other factors, which indisputably also have a determined impact on the fact that a specific person will sometimes in the future tend to (mis-)use addictive substances or not, in this case the existence of much more frequent, accessible and generally tolerated drugs such as tobacco and alcohol including the role they might play is often neglected. This work deals with the investigation of patterns of use of legal and illegal addictive substances during the adolescence of current problem users, the outcoming data is compared with the study conclusions of ESPAD and states possible deductions. Objectives: By means of retrospective investigative method the work should map out the patterns of the use and prevalence of experiencing the selected legal or illegal substances by a current problem 16 year-old user and compare them with the conclusions of the ESPAD study. At...
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