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The position of community Alcoholics Anonymous in addiction services system: Experience and attitudes of AA members in Prague
Břoušková, Barbora ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Gabrhelík, Roman (referee)
Alcoholics Anonymous is the largest and best-known self-help organization. In the Czech Republic, neither its position nor its number and characteristics of its members are known yet. Therefore it is necessary to learn more about them. There is a supervised therapy, as well as AA. Is it possible to find a connection between these "different" approaches to alcohol addiction therapy? The theoretical part contains a description of alcohol addiction, information about the system of medical care for alcoholics and information on the current situation in the Czech Republic. The most important information is described in the chapter on Alcoholics Anonymous fellowship. The main research objective is to describe the characteristics, behavior and motivation of all AA groups in Prague and possibly find out which place can AA hold in the system of addictology services. In accordance with the objective five research questions were specified. Data were collected through a questionnaire and subsequently analyzed using mathematical and statistical techniques with the help of IBM SPSS Statistics 20 software. The questionnaire was composed of 19 questions. Respondents were nominated by a total group selection. The survey covers all groups of Alcoholics Anonymous based in Prague. The research sample consisted of 34...
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The process of addiction treatment in the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous
Němcová, Lucie ; Grygar, Jakub (advisor) ; Hájek, Martin (referee)
This thesis concerns an alternative approach to the alcohol-addiction treatment within the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous and highlights the importance of self-help groups in the contemporary society. This worldwide biggest self-help group uses sociologically important processes to achieve a new way of life connected with sobriety. I have studied these processes through the participant observation. Alcoholics Anonymous influences its members through its specific culture which reflects in group rituals, high level of group affiliation, spirituality and co-constructed community story, which bears the member's knowledge. This thesis looks on the transition to identity of the sober alcoholic and the new way of living according to Twelve-Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous through the perspective of drift model of conversion, transition rituals or principles used in the narrative therapy. Within these processes there occurs radical reconstruction of perceptual, cognitive and behavioral schemes which influence the meanings in the interpretation of everyday life and consecutively change the identity of the individual and his social action. These changes of the individual are strengthened by the group members and then gradually spread out of the group boundaries too.
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Impacts of alcohol addiction in the relation to spirituality of addicted persons - questionnaire survey
Sobková, Marta ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Barták, Miroslav (referee)
INTRODUCTION - The bachelor thesis deals with the relationship between negative effects of alcohol addiction on a person's life and his/her individual spirituality. OBJECTIVE - The main aim of the thesis is to find the relationship between impacts of alcohol addiciton in different areas of life and the individual's spirituality. Another objective was to clarify the differences in spirituality and other characteristics of Alcoholic Anonymous (AA) members and clients of professional addictology services. PARTICIPANTS - 98 respondents participating in the questionnaire survey were members of the AA groups in various regions of the Czech Republic and clients or patients of six addictology health or social care services. METHOD - The research was conducted through an anonymous questionnaire survey, in both paper and online form. The questionnaire was based on the Motivational questionnaire of MUDr. Karel Nespor and Pražský spirituality questionnaire (the Prague Questionnaire of Spirituality, PQS 36). The data were processed in Excel and the IBM SPSS Statistics. The results were subjected to correlation analysis, and other methods of statistical testing (Pearson Chi-quadrtate independence test, t-test, z-test). RESULTS - The main findings include a statistically significant relationship between the...
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Selfhelping groups in the Czech Republic - analysis of actual state
WASSERBAUEROVÁ, Klára
The Bachelor Thesis is concerning the theme of Self-help groups in the Czech Republic - the analysis of the current situation. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practice unit. The theoretical unit describes the concept of self-helping, history of self-help groups, the characteristics and principles. There are further determined the specification of the target group, the work of the social worker and the description of the importance of the group. There are characterized the self-help groups from the perspective of psychotherapy in the second half of the theoretical unit, especially in the chapter Therapeutic factors of the self-help groups. The practice unit is divided into two research files. The first research file is concerning quantitative strategy in the form of interviews with clients. Based on those interviews there was made SWOT analysis, which was principal for fulfilling the goals of the thesis. The second research group was carried out as quantitative strategy in other words by collecting data using internet sources. The collection of data was necessary to answer research questions. The first research question was: "What kinds of self-help groups are available for individual target groups in the Czech Republic?" The second research question was: "Are there any of self-help groups absent for some of target group clients?" The both research questions were successfully answered due to investigation which also demonstrated what the current situation of self-help groups in the Czech Republic is present. Searching for the information and the data related to research questions resulted in subdividing self-help groups into those which are managed professionally or based on level system, and those that belong under a specific institution or are managed individually. Also from this reason there are the self-help groups in the Czech Republic subdivided according to regions, activities, method of management and competency. The goal of the bachelor thesis is to analyze the availability of self-help groups. This goal was achieved by the performed research. The analysis demonstrated that the availability of the self help groups in the Czech Republic is increasing but the Czech Republic's position is obviously a bit behind the western countries with some work ahead of us to be done in the future.
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Annotated Czech Translation: The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous; The Atlantic, 2015
Secká, Lucie ; Mraček, David (advisor) ; Šťastná, Zuzana (referee)
In my bachelor thesis, I translate a story from English into Czech. It is called The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous and was written by Gabrielle Glaser. The story was published in 2015. Its main subject is the inefficiency of Alcoholics Anonymous in the USA. The text presents more modern and effective ways of treatment. The thesis consists of two parts - translation and commentary - which consist of analysing the original text and typology of translation problems and shifts. In the first part, I translate selected parts of the story. In the proces, I focus on the main functions of the text and preserve the dominant function of the original. I try to convey the message in such a way which would be understandable for the receiver. I also aim at writing a text which would allow the reader to clearly grasp the concept. The second part is theoretical. I write up a fictitious translation assignment. I comment on the stylistics of the original and, consequently, analyse the internal and external factors of the original text according to Christiane Nord examining the lexis, syntax and pragmatics of the original. I present a translation strategy which I follow in my translation. I put forward the more serious and interesting translation problems and shifts and their solution. I analyse them according...
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Supply and the importance of self-groups in the Czech Republic with a focus on Prague
Hrušková, Eliška ; Havránková, Olga (advisor) ; Vojtíšek, Petr (referee)
Self-help groups are an interesting phenomenon and they could serve as a significant complement to the social services. Nevertheless they don't attract much attention in the Czech republic. In the theoretical part this thesis is trying to describe in detail how the self-help groups work, how they can complement social services and what are their risks and limitations. In the practical part a research was conducted in order to understand and map the situation of Czech self-help groups. This research was based on the internet search engine and registry of social services providers. The goal of the research was to map the self-help groups in the Czech republic in relation to geographical and typological allocation. The outcome of the research is a directory of active self-help groups that should serve both social workers and potencial clients of the self-help groups.
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The position of community Alcoholics Anonymous in addiction services system: Experience and attitudes of AA members in Prague
Břoušková, Barbora ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Gabrhelík, Roman (referee)
Alcoholics Anonymous is the largest and best-known self-help organization. In the Czech Republic, neither its position nor its number and characteristics of its members are known yet. Therefore it is necessary to learn more about them. There is a supervised therapy, as well as AA. Is it possible to find a connection between these "different" approaches to alcohol addiction therapy? The theoretical part contains a description of alcohol addiction, information about the system of medical care for alcoholics and information on the current situation in the Czech Republic. The most important information is described in the chapter on Alcoholics Anonymous fellowship. The main research objective is to describe the characteristics, behavior and motivation of all AA groups in Prague and possibly find out which place can AA hold in the system of addictology services. In accordance with the objective five research questions were specified. Data were collected through a questionnaire and subsequently analyzed using mathematical and statistical techniques with the help of IBM SPSS Statistics 20 software. The questionnaire was composed of 19 questions. Respondents were nominated by a total group selection. The survey covers all groups of Alcoholics Anonymous based in Prague. The research sample consisted of 34...
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The process of addiction treatment in the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous
Němcová, Lucie ; Grygar, Jakub (advisor) ; Hájek, Martin (referee)
This thesis concerns an alternative approach to the alcohol-addiction treatment within the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous and highlights the importance of self-help groups in the contemporary society. This worldwide biggest self-help group uses sociologically important processes to achieve a new way of life connected with sobriety. I have studied these processes through the participant observation. Alcoholics Anonymous influences its members through its specific culture which reflects in group rituals, high level of group affiliation, spirituality and co-constructed community story, which bears the member's knowledge. This thesis looks on the transition to identity of the sober alcoholic and the new way of living according to Twelve-Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous through the perspective of drift model of conversion, transition rituals or principles used in the narrative therapy. Within these processes there occurs radical reconstruction of perceptual, cognitive and behavioral schemes which influence the meanings in the interpretation of everyday life and consecutively change the identity of the individual and his social action. These changes of the individual are strengthened by the group members and then gradually spread out of the group boundaries too.
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