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Burnout syndrome among secondary school teachers
KLIMEŠOVÁ, Michaela
Annotation This diploma thesis deals with the issue of burnout syndrome among high school teachers. The introductory theoretical part characterizes terms burnout and stress which is closely connected with burnout. This thesis also focuses on reasons of burnout, its phases, risk factors and prevention. Following part focuses on the teaching profession in connection with burnout. In the practical part there are analyzed data acquired from questionnaires. The aim was to find out to what extent teachers feel signs of burnout in four levels (cognitive, affective, physical and social) from the point of view of gender and the length of experience.
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Stress Evaluation, Coping and Reduction
Hacajová, Karolína ; Marsinová, Daniela (referee) ; Franková, Emilie (advisor)
The Master´s thesis “Stress evaluation, coping and reduction” is dealing with a topic of work-related stress, which is very common at working places of many companies nowadays. The theoretical part is focused on definition of basic concepts of stress and common techniques of coping and reduction of stress. The practical part provides a measurement of certain level of work-related stress in Henkel Slovensko, spol. s r.o. company based on questionnaire survey. The conclusion of the thesis contains the recommendations focused on reduction of certain stress factors´ impact and precaution of formation of work-related stress.
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Burnout syndrome among employees of the company THOME Lighting
Opltová, Daniela ; Kašparová, Eva (advisor) ; Ticháková, Zuzana (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the employee burnout syndrome at the production department of the company THOME Lighting. The substance of the thesis is the determination of, whether the employees are at risk for the burnout syndrome, or if they already have it. The theoretical part deals with the description of the syndrome, its symptoms, risk factors, individual phases, prevention and treatment. Further, the practical part summarizes the research solutions. For the research I chose the questionnaire method of Beverly A. Potter, known as BPQ questionnaire. After detailed evaluation of the questionnaires, the hypotheses, that explore if the burnout syndrome has context with sex, age or the exposure time in the company, are evaluated. Hereafter, the awareness of the employees about the burnout syndrome is examined.
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Needs to increase the psychological competencies of employees of the IZS, the design of educational activities.
VAŠÁTKOVÁ, Klára
This bachelor thesis focuses on the need to increase the psychological skills of integrated rescue system workers and then to the proposal of educational activities. The first part concerns the competence theory; there is a description and definition of competence and its classification and division. Next section deals with the mechanisms of psychological adaptation to stressful situations which employees of IRS may experience. Another section is focused on mental functioning in stressful situations and at different steps as all above phases of activation, stages of coping with mental stress and consequential phase. In the subsection about police stress is mentioned psychological stress in the investigation of violent crime, especially with extreme corpses, death of a child or death under tragic circumstances. Attention is also paid to the psychological result of firearm use, police work-related stress and coping with stress in police practice. Mental health workers of IRS describes the resistance of integrated rescue system workers to stressful situations, also protect the mental health of these workers and, ultimately, burnout syndrome. The work also provides a simple overview of psychological care intended for IRS workers and effective means for the prevention of post-traumatic stress symptoms in people working in the IRS. The main options to prevent the crisis intervention - professional method of working with people in a situation they experienced from their perspective as stressful or threatening. Another option is supervision - counseling method that helps workers in their professional development, aims to increase their professionalism. A separate sub-chapter focuses on communication with people and its rules. Principles of dealing with mentally disturbed individuals, principles of dealing with victims of crime, also dealing with a suicide, a communication with the elderly, the principle of communicating bad news and communication with aggressors are elaborated in detail. The last subchapter of the theoretical part concerns the crisis communication, communication with affected persons and the specifics of crisis communication in the security forces - the Police of Czech Republic, Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic and Emergency Medical Services. The research part begins with chapter objectives of the thesis, which sets out the three main goals. The first goal is to characterize the educational system of the Police of the Czech Republic - basic training and the possibility of subsequent training. It includes a mention about the Code of Ethics of the Police of the Czech Republic, which is a standard for all police officers. The next purpose is to characterize the educational system of the Italian police, which is divided into three modules - security and defense, weapons and their legitimate use, transport and traffic regulations. The education of police officers in Italy comprises special modules, which are further divided into five sub-modules - communication between the police officer and a citizen or group of citizens, the process of communication, nonverbal communication, communication problems and the management of anxiety and stress. The final objective is the design of educational activities, which was created based on the comparison of educational systems Police and Italy. The first focuses on communication - communication training complex situations using model situations and training of reading nonverbal communication. The second proposal concerns the increase in the education of police officers in the field of ethnic differences between people living in the Czech Republic.The last proposal is the education of police officers in sign language - the basic features for initial communication and understandings with hearing impaired people. These designs can be used for the practice of police training.
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Burn-out syndrome focusing on officers in charge of children and youth in risk
MANDÁTOVÁ, Kateřina
The Bachelor's thesis concentrates on burnout syndrome among counsellors for children and youth. The aim of the thesis was to determine whether counsellors for children and youth feel at risk of burnout, whether they are informed about burnout and how they try to prevent it. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on a brief introduction to counsellors' job and definition of burnout. This part particularly deals with specifics of counsellors' work with at-risk youth and preventing burnout. The research was carried out using a qualitative research strategy which consisted of two methods survey and semi-structured interview. The data were analyzed by a clustering method. The research group consisted of eight counsellors for children and youth selected according to their availability. The following research question was used to map the above-mentioned issue: Are counsellors for children and youth at risk of burnout? The results have shown that the majority of counsellors for children and youth feel at risk of burnout syndrome, particularly because of the stress factors at work. The most common stress factors named by the respondents included excessive amount of administration tasks and documentation, too many clients per one employee, careless attitude of clients or inadequate feeling of recognition and support from superiors as well as colleagues. Supervision can be used at all respondents' workplaces as an effective tool in preventing burnout, but it was often assessed as unsatisfactory. Currently, the burnout syndrome is often discussed especially among the helping professions, which also include counsellors for children and youth. Despite this fact, it is advisable to further explore this issue. To sum up, the thesis describes specific reasons why counsellors for children and youth are at risk of burnout syndrome. Next, it asks whether counsellors take adequate preventative measures against burnout and closely concentrates on supervision in the workplace. The thesis can serve as a basis for further research and the results can be used at the institutions where counsellors for children and youth work.
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Issue of death and dying through eyes of workers in hospice facilities
PLIČŽKOVÁ, Iva
The theoretical part of the bachelor thesis describes the basic theme of death and dying in order to support the practical part as best as possible. The first chapter covers the topic of death and dying in general. Besides the basic definitions it contains the phases of dying according to Kübler-Ross, the topic of suffering in human life and the taboo of death. An inseparable part of the thesis is an excursion into the history of the perception of death. The end of the first chapter deals with the current state of dying in the Czech Republic. The second chapter deals with palliative care and the hospice movement. The chapter provides a basic division, mission and goals, and of course the topic of euthanasia is also mentioned here. The last chapter briefly describes the burnout syndrome among helping professions including hospice workers. The practical part begins by defining the goal of this thesis. The goal of this thesis is as follows: To map the opinions and attitudes of helping workers in hospices in context to their perception of death suffering and the factors that influence them. To achieve this goal four research questions have been established and subsequently answered during the research. Because of the nature of the thesis the qualitative research method has been chosen. Both individual and group semi-structured interviews have been chosen as the methods for gathering data. The communicational partners for the research were 11 hospice workers from the Jihočeský and Vysočina regions. Three areas emerged from the interviews: The reason for choosing this thesis in the palliative area; the perception of death, dying and suffering, and the prevention of the burnout syndrome. The reasons why somebody would choose to work in a hospice are very varied. The mentioned reasons included the experience of losing a loved one, coincidences when looking for work or transfers from hospital workers. As a clear positive the respondents mentioned a great difference between the quality of service offered by hospices against the quality offered by hospitals. In regards to the respondents opinions on death, most of the respondents consider death as a natural part of life, the possibility of an afterlife has however also been mentioned. A death of a young person or a child is a notable stress factor for all of the respondents. The most complicated area was the purpose of suffering where the respondents gave no clear answer. In regards to euthanasia the majority of the respondents were against legalizing it, mostly because of the quality and expanding palliative care. Another topic covered by the interviews was the presence of the child when someone is dying, the taboo of death or the influence of religion on working in this field. The last part of the practical part dealt with the strategies the workers in palliative care use to deal with work related stress and how do they prevent being burnout. Teambuilding had a positive feedback. The individual methods of preventing burnout then included nature, culture, talking to friends and especially strictly separating personal life and work.
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The Burnout syndrome among members of the Fire Brigade of the Czech Republic
Tvrdková, Denisa ; Hubinková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Beňo, Miloslav (referee)
This theoretical-empirical thesis discusses an issue of burnout among members of Fire Rescue Service of the Czech republic. The focus of theoretical part is given to the burnout syndrome, it's definition, risk factors, possible causes, it's gradual phases and diagnostic and measuring methods of the burnout syndrome. Further, the theses deals with possibilities of treatment of a burnout and preventive actions that could be taken on both sites of each employee and the organization. This is followed by a closer acquaintance of the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech republic, it's history, mission and basic competences. Afterwards, a profession of professional firefighter is described. Possible causes and preventive measures against the burnout syndrome at the Fire Brigade are examined. In the empirical part of this thesis the burnout syndrome among members of Fire Rescue Service of the Czech republic is investigated through questionnaires and personal interviews. At this point the thesis focuses on outbound firefighters and operational technicians with the aim to detect possible differences in incidences between those two groups and possible causes of the burnout syndrome among them. Further the aim is to assess the efficiency of the Psychological Services of the Fire Brigade and its preventive measures taken against work-related stress and burnout.
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Stressogenic Factors in a Health-Care Facility
Fridrichovská, Iveta ; Lešetický, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kandilaki, Daniela (referee)
This thesis deals with work-related stress and stressors of medical staff, doctors and nurses. The aim is to expound this issue and to determine the level of stressors influencing the medical staff in given hospitals. As first in the theoretical section, the characteristics and specifics of medical profession are described, thereafter personality traits supposed for this profession. The second chapter describes stress, which medical staff is burdened with, and concrete typical stressors as well. The third chapter concerns burnout syndrome, which is a possible consequence of long-acting stress. The fourth and last chapter is devoted to the prevention and coping of stress and burnout. The practical section presents the evaluation of the survey concerning effect of stressors on the medical staff of four selected hospitals. According to the ascertained results are outlined measures for improving the situation and preventing acting stressors.
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Risk and prevention of the burnout syndrome during a work career
Petrecká, Veronika ; Jarošová, Eva (advisor) ; Hochel, Matej (referee)
This dissertation identifies factors causing the burnout syndrome, which occur especially in the area of work career. It discusses risks that cause the burnout syndrome and the possibilities of its prevention. The theoretical part analyses particular aspects of burnout and describes career as a significant part of human life. The second part of the dissertation evaluates research that was conducted in a chosen organisation. Findings regarding a stress prevention programme are discussed in the second part, as well as the topic of how ready participants are to use the gained knowledge in real life. The paper also assesses how employees and their supervisors evaluate the stress prevention programme. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyse the effectiveness of the stress prevention programme and its impacts. Some suggestions of possible improvements within the programme are also mentioned.
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Burnout syndrome among students of the Faculty of Business Administration (FBA) at the University of Economics, Prague
Řehková, Lenka ; Kašparová, Eva (advisor) ; Hochel, Matej (referee)
The main essence of this Master's thesis is to examine students of the Faculty of Business Administration (FBA) at the University of Economics, Prague and then determine whether students are at risk of burnout or already suffering from it. The theoretical part deals with the explanation of the terms - particularly burnout syndrome, its risk factors, symptoms and stages. Then there is the section dedicated to the prevention and treatment of burnout syndrome. Also noteworthy is the comparison of relations between burnout syndrome and stress, depression, and time management. The next chapter is about the characteristics of people who may be at risk of burnout, and a description of professions, which are most affected by burnout. The end of this part is about the University of Economics, Prague, the Faculty of Business Administration and its students. The theoretical part is followed by the practical part, which is based on questionnaire survey, which shows whether students of the Faculty of Business Administration (FBA) at the University of Economics, Prague are at risk of burnout syndrome or already suffering from it. After evaluation of the questionnaires and evaluate hypotheses at the end of the work a few recommendations for students.
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