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Social and psychological counselling given to imprisoned substance abusers via video calls
Meňhert, Mária ; Hradcová, Dana (advisor) ; Šoltésová, Denisa (referee)
1 Abstract The spring 2020 Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in the Czech Republic brought many challenges and new opportunities for (not only) social services. This also applies to services working with clients in prisons. The entry bans for external subjects onto prison premises made personal consultations with clients impossible. The staff of these services have connected with their clients remotely via video calls. This use of technology created a new tool for providing social and psychological counselling - video consultations. The aim of this thesis is to document this experience and to evaluate the suitability of providing video consultations after the cancellation of anti-pandemic measures. This thesis also aims to evaluate the possibility of introducing video consultations as a standard service offered by social services and thus obtain a new tool for working with clients in prisons. The focus of the research question lies on the possibility of establishing a trust-based relationship between the social service worker and the client during video consultations. The sub-questions focus on three bodies that have a direct influence on the video consultations: the social services of non-governmental, non-profit organisations; Prison Service of the Czech Republic; and the convicted person - the client and...

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