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Ethical dimension of stigma and discrimination of people with psychotic disease and impact of social work at its alleviation.
KŘISTKOVÁ, Lucie
The thesis deals with the problem of discrimination and stigmatization of people with a psychotic illness, its ethical as well as legal dimension and the specificity of social work with this target group. The thesis consists of five chapters. In chapter I. I briefly define health and illness in general and the specifics of mental health and mental disorders. In chapter II. I describe psychotic illness in general i.e. formation, symptoms and manifestation, treatment and I also shortly introduce particular types of psychotic illnesses. In chapter III. I specialize in the application of ethics in social work and in ethical and legal problems in psychiatry. Chapter IV. deals with the specifics of discrimination and stigmatization of people with a psychotic illness. I present the most frequent areas in which discrimination occurs, consequences which are caused by discrimination and stigmatization, activities leading to their moderation and legal standards that are supposed to aim at the prevention of discrimination and ensure the protection of rights for mentally ill people. I ethically reflect these issues. Chapter IV. is concerned with the specifics of social work with people suffering from a psychotic illness. I describe how to work with such a target group, I introduce methods of social work helping clients with a psychotic illness to function socially, to integrate into the society and reduce the impact of stigmatization and discrimination.
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Social Works With Clients With Schizophrenia
Hemalová, Nikol ; Krahulcová, Beáta (advisor) ; Ondrušová, Jiřina (referee)
Social Work With Clients With Schizophrenia is a disertation concerninig the problematics of schizophrenia as a serious mental disorder. It presents the most important matters of this disorder, such as how its manifestated, what are its types and how it progreses. It handles the information about how the social work with this focus group is being executed in Czech Republic, what is a psychiatric rehabilitation and how it should be processed, how should social workers approach clients with this disorder and what are the specifcs of social work with those clients. It presents examples of organisations and associations working with this focus group in Czech Republic. The experimental part is a reasearch concerning how clients with schizophrenia percieves life, how the disorder started and continued and mainly how informed those clients are about the possibilities of social services.
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Spirituality and Mental Disorder: The Role of Spirituality in the Lives of People with Experience of Psychosis
Motl, Jiří ; Říčan, Pavel (advisor) ; Smékal, Vladimír (referee) ; Janošová, Pavlína (referee)
D I S E R T A Č N Í P R Á C E Autor: Mgr. Jiří Motl Spiritualita a duševní nemoc Role spirituality v životě lidí se zkušeností s psychotickým onemocněním Spirituality and Mental Disorder: The Role of Spirituality in the Lives of People with Experience of Psychosis Abstract The dissertation investigates the relationship of mental illness and religion. It focuses on the role of spirituality in people with experience of psychosis. In the theoretical part, the problem of drawing the line between pathological and normal spirituality is discussed, stressing the importance of a functional point of view and the need for a dialogic relationship with the ill person. The theoretical part goes on with mapping the potential of spirituality in the recovery process. Spirituality often helps the afflicted to perceive their illness as a meaningful process, making it easier to cope with the illness. At the end of the theoretical part, four alternative or complementary conceptual frameworks are presented. The empirical part consists of a qualitative research of nine subjects (believers with the experience of psychosis). The data collection and analysis is based mainly in the IPA method (interpretative phenomenological analysis). The research aims to map how mental illness affected the subjects' spirituality and vice versa....
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Religious Interpretation of Psychotic Illness. How do Christian orientated patients understand their illness?
Němeček, Filip ; Motl, Jiří (advisor) ; Říčan, Pavel (referee)
This thesis deals with religious interpretations of psychotic illness. In the theoretical part, the psychotic disorder is first briefly defined and several stimulating psychological interpretations are outlined. An overview of the history of the relationship of psychology and religion follows. The next chapter summarizes some religious interpretations of psychosis. The focus of the work is on the research part. It is a psychological qualitative research, which shows how three Christian-oriented mentally ill women with psychotic symptoms interpret their own illness. The case studies are then compared in a separate chapter, entailing a slight generalization of the results. At the end there is a reflection on the limitations of the research.
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The role of cannabinoid system in neurobiology and therapy of psychotic disorders - an experimental study in animal models of psychosis
Nováková, Pavlína ; Páleníček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Šustková, Magdaléna (referee)
Throughout the scientific world the topic of cannabis usage and its link with psychosis seems to be discussed intensively. Considering the fact that the Czech Republic is a country with one of the highest prevalence of cannabis usage in the world it becomes a sensitive issue even in our circumstances. In the theoretical part of the work we attempted to review current knowledge of a link between cannabinoid system, canabis usage and psychosis and to point out possible future therapeutic potential of cannabinoids in the treatment of psychotic diseases. In the practical part of the work we focused on verification of propsychotic features of THC in animal model with particular attention to validation of acute subcutaneous admonistration of this drug as a novel cannabinoid model of psychosis. At the same time we tried to elucidate antipsychotic effect of CBD in this model. We tested these hypotheses in two behavioral tests (open field test, PPI ASR) and electrophysiologically (quantitative EEG). The whole analysis is enriched with pharmacokinetic data from subcutanneous and oral administration of cannabinoids. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Experiencing of schizophrenia and staying atdepartment of psychiatry
Podstavková, Cecílie ; Goldmann, Petr (advisor) ; Soukupová, Tereza (referee)
A theme of this bachelor thesis is a subjective experience of psychosis and stay at department of psychiatry. The aim of this thesis is to provide a view into psychosis from patients' prism as well as an effort to map their experiences in a certain way by searching for common features. A theoretical part of the thesis outlines a concept of psychosis or more precisely mainly a concept of schizophrenia from several points of view - psychiatric, psychological theories of S. Freud and C. G. Jung, socially developmental, cognitive, constructivist and also alternative point of view. It also briefly deals with issues concerning experience with regard to pathology of psychosis and options of its treatment. An empirical part of the thesis which is based on the author's personal research created using a grounded theory describes experiences of five respondents from psychiatric ward and also experiencing of psychosis focusing on a psychotic episode. The questions in the research are also focused on reasons of hospitalization, individuals' understanding of a situation, influence of psychosis on other people, contribution or disfavour of hospitalization or treatment. Keywords: Psychosis, schizophrenia, experiencing, experience, subjectivity, department of psychiatry, hospitalization, treatment.
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Psychotherapeutic approaches to patiens with psychosis
Burianová, Martina ; Soukupová, Tereza (advisor) ; Klusák, Miroslav (referee)
In this study I try to survey experiences of psychotherapists who work with people that are diagnosed with schizophrenia disorder. The goal of this study is to find out what therapeutic factors contribute to effectiveness of such psychotherapy. The study is a detailed description of work experience of four clinical psychologists - therapists. The therapists were chosen in a way to represent variety of psychotherapeutic schools. Data were collected with the use of semistructured interview and then analyzed with the use of Grounded Theory Method. The study shows particular psychotherapeutic factors that are used by individual psychotherapists and how are these factors combined so such combination contributes to the effectiveness of psychotherapy. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The literary statement of mentally ill individuals as a testimony of a fight for normality (its ethical aspect)
VEDRALOVÁ, Aneta
Goal of this bachelor thesis is to describe dominant ethical aspects of a return of a mentally ill person back to normal life and to point out by this the importance of social support in the process of recovery. As a specific of this thesis I consider a fact that my source of data were not just semi-structured interviews but also the content analysis of books written by two women, who have personal experience with psychotic form of illness. To result effective achievement of a main research goal, the thesis is divided into two parts, into theoretical part and into empirical part. The theoretical part is a vast treatise about schizophrenic disease written in a way so the reader would better experience life from the point of view of a mentally ill person. It includes the description of schizophrenia, its possible manifestations, social impacts, treatment or prognosis. In addition to that, a part dedicated to the treatment of schizophrenia describes a type of treatment that is not very often used in the Czech Republic called narrative therapy. Another equally important section of the theoretical part is the treatise about stigma of mental illness and its possible elimination by activities of anti-stigmatizing nature. Theory is then finished by outlining the issue of normality. The empirical part of my bachelor thesis is trying to reach set goal with the help of qualitative strategy. It is happening through the analysis of loose transcription of two semi-structured interviews, but also through the content analysis of two books. One of them is called Ve stínech za zrcadlem aneb o životě s psychózou which was written by Markéta Bednářová, and the other one is called Homo psychoticus written by Markéta Dohnalová. It is clear from the research that mentally ill individual must (besides the disease itself) fight with the negative attitude of society, that treats him discriminatory, while he is trying to get back to his normal functioning. For example, mentally ill people have problems to keep a job, or even to find one that suits their abilities and possibilities. Successful recovery is also sometimes prevented by the treatment of schizophrenia, which is quite a paradox. The ill people are not willing to use medicine with soothing and other undesirable effects which sadly often leads to relapse and repeated hospitalization. Another problem to successful return can also be family. It is important for the ill individual to return back to stable and safe environment which serves as a protection and prevention from possible relapse of the disease. The ill individual is often hindrance to himself. Self-stigmatization goes hand in hand with the loss of self-confidence, with the change of identity and with the consequent stagnation in the label of mental illness. It comes to the internalization of prejudices, which the society holds against people ill with schizophrenia and the ill individual gives up all efforts on his full integration back to the society. In a fight against stigmatization and primarily self-stigmatization, it seems to be effective to reveal one's diagnosis and to talk about it openly. This is what Markéta Bednářová and Markéta Dohnalová, who both believe that writing a book about a fight against their disease is an effective form of autotherapy and also a bridge to mental health, did. This bachelor thesis could arouse further interest about therapy for people ill with schizophrenia through writing of their life story, and it could also serve as an accompanying material while teaching social work with the intention to describe the concepts of stigmatization of mental illness to students. And beside that it can evoke further interest in support of social services which try to ease the return of an ill individual back to the society. And finally, this bachelor theses itself could be a bearer of anti-stigmatizing influence.
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