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Animal Assisted Activity and Therapy in Nursing Home in Pilsen Edge
ŠKARDOVÁ, Kristýna
The bachelor's thesis deals with zootherapy in homes for the elderly in the Pilsen region. It examines the views and opinions of workers providing zootherapy and social workers. The work further examines how zootherapy is performed, what are its benefits and how its users are involved. Zootherapy contributes to improving the mental and physical condition of clients. The bachelor thesis consists of two parts - the practical one and the theoretical one. The theoretical part is devoted to defining important terms related to zootherapy and home for the elderly, it also deals with the history of zootherapy and the description of individual types of zootherapy. The practical part deals with the process itself, the benefits for the user, and the involvement of a social worker in the process. The aim of the bachelor's thesis was to find out how zootherapy is provided in homes for the elderly in the Pilsen region. The partial goal was to find out how users are involved in the process, what is the benefit of providing zootherapy and what kind of zootherapy is most frequently used in homes for the elderly. 1 main research question and 3 secondary research questions were defined to fulfil these aims. A qualitative strategy, concretely a semi-standardized interview technique, was used for the research of the bachelor's thesis. The results were processed by open coding, rewritten, and recorded in schemes via the literal responses of individual information partners. The result of the research is the finding that the most provided type of zootherapy is canistherapy and that feline therapy is provided only in one single case. All respondents evaluate the benefits of therapy positively, clients are actively involved in the therapeutic process. The bachelor's thesis can serve as a source of information about the course and benefits of zootherapy in the Pilsen region.
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The use of canistherapy when working with the class team at the first stage of primary school
VOJÍKOVÁ, Gabriela
In this graduation thesis I am focusing on making and suporting the beginnings of first graders in elementary school thru canisterapy. The aim is to make an education that would support progress and desired interactions in classes. Particular aim of thesis is divided into two parts, first is theoretical part which describes education in elementary schools, classroom climate and term canistherapy. Second part is practical which contains education and resulting evaluation. The results of this thesis may be used by educationalists in elementary schools in their work or by volunteers with therapeutical dogs while coming into classes.
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The Preparation and the Use of Guide and Assistance Dogs
REŠLOVÁ, Dominika
The thesis deals with the preparation and the use of guide and assitence dogs. The first part characterises basic terms based on therapy with animals, three types of auxiliary dogs, the history and the right choice of these dogs, their training, final exam and transport to their clients. In the pratical part, we can find the type of research, the choice of methodology, the process of data pooling, participants of the research a the methods of the research´s structure. In the second part of the bachelor thesis, we canfind the interviews with people who train the guide and assitance dogs and also with people who use help of these dogs. In this bachelor thesis I chose the qualitative research and I used a method called interview.
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Use of Canistherapy in SeneCura SeniorCentrum Písek
ZEMANOVÁ, Tereza
The thesis deals with the use of canistherapy in the senior house SeneCura Písek. The theoretical part characterizes what canistherapy is, what are its forms, methods, techniques and effects and where it is possible to use canistherapy. It also describes the senior's needs and the types of social services they can use, specifically focusing on the SeneCura SeniorCentrum Písek. The practical part deals with the question of what effect the use of canistherapy in a residential form has on clients and how the whole process is perceived by seniors and employees.
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Possibilities to use the Canistherapy and its influence on children in pre-school and school age
ARENBERGEROVÁ, Aneta
This bachelor thesis focuses on the impact of canistherapy on physically handicapped individuals. The first part of the bachelor thesis deals with a brief definition of the term of ´zootherapy´, further it focuses on the definition of canistherapy, its history, its present, and methods. It also defines individual disabilities in children and it deals with a suitable choice of an assistance dog for the effect of canistherapy. The second part includes a qualitative research which, with the help of interviews with canistherapists, gained information on the process of canistherapy for pre-school and school children.
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Accesibility of Canine therapy in Southbohemian Region
VOJTĚCHOVÁ, Kristýna
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to map the availability of canistherapy in the South Bohemian Region and compare canis therapy services according to predetermined criteria. The theoretical part explains the concept of canistherapy and presents the development of canistherapy in the world and in the Czech Republic. It describes the various methods and forms of canistherapy. It introduces the preparation for the practice of canistherapy, which begins with a suitably selected dog, its training and ends with passing the canis therapy exam of the entire canistherapy team. The conclusion of the theoretical part points to the use of canistherapy in special pedagogy for pupils with visual, auditory, mental, physical, combined disabilities, for pupils with epilepsy, autism and ADHD. The aim of the practical part is to introduce individual canis therapy organizations and free canis therapists. At the end, the individual canis therapy facilities are recorded and compared in a table according to the criteria. Questionnaire and interview methods are used to achieve the goal. The result of the bachelor thesis is a comprehensive overview of available canis therapy services in the South Bohemian Region.
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Canistherapy in seniors
Svitáková, Jana ; Ondrušová, Jiřina (advisor) ; Válková, Monika (referee)
The diploma thesis Canistherapy in seniors discusses the utilisation and benefits of canistherapy for elderly clients. The theoretical part of the thesis characterizes the target group of seniors, their needs, issues and types of facilities available to them. Furthermore, the discipline of canistherapy is generically described, as well as its methods, techniques and the role of canistherapy dog in this form of therapy. The practical part of the thesis interprets the data obtained through several research methods which are applied in order to examine the senior age client's perception of canistherapy, explore the availability of canistherapy in retirement homes, map the canistherapy teams target groups and present the retirement homes staff opinions on canistherapy and its effects. The aim of this diploma thesis is to describe canistherapy in relation to elderly care and to specifically depict its methods, ways of its provision, techniques and activities associated with it. An empirical research was thus made to answer the main research question: What are the benefits of canistherapy for seniors?
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Analysis of the canistherapy
Kejřová, Anežka ; Květoňová, Lea (advisor) ; Šumníková, Pavlína (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the use of canistherapy in the special education practise. It records the development, methods, forms and type sof canistherapy, included risks and benefits of this psychoterapeutic method. The research parts maps the relationship between the education of dog handlers and the quality of their fieldwork.
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Canistheraphy (zootherapy) in special education institutions
Kučerová, Libuše ; Jančaříková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Andreska, Jan (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on canistherapy as a possible therapeutic method, which uses the impact of animals on the human health and its use in practice. The thesis aims to verify in practice whether the dispositions of some dog breeds are more suitable for this method. It concentrates on the selection of the right canine regarding its sex, age and character. The theoretical part of the search deals with the forms, methods, concepts and principles of canistherapy. It focuses on its use in Rest Homes and Social Welfare Institutions. One part refers to the selection and preparation of a suitable dog and its use in health and social sphere. Practical part reviews the suitability of various breeds for specific methods of canistherapy. Questionnaire and a monitoring method were used for the purposes of the research. Conclusions were drawn from the analysis of replies to simple uestions and were further processed and converted to general charts. Most of the results comply with the professionals' views, e.g. they suggest the dog breed is not that significant as its character traits or positive approach to people. However, new observation was made concerning the age of dog as it should not be regarded as the determining factor for therapy. It rather depends on the current physical and psychological...
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Use of animal assisted therapy and hippotherapy for children with physical and sensory disabilities and its application
Jiroušková, Alžběta ; Jančaříková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Květoňová, Lea (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to determine the influence of assisted therapy of dogs and horses for people with musculoskeletal disabilities and sensory impairments. The operational objective is to define the status and position of a therapy with the assistance of a dog and a horse in the context of the complex rehabilitation of a client. The theoretical part concentrates on the issues of zootherapy and zooasistance as supportive methods for easing muscle spasms, the development of fine and gross motor skills, development of verbal and nonverbal communication and development of orientation in space. In the research part of the thesis there are used qualitative techniques of data collection (history and observation), all rounded off by grounded theory. By the carried out research there were found positive manifestations in both the social and psychological areas, as well as in the areas of communication and development of fine and gross motor skills of children with disabilities.
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