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Respect to human dignity as a baseline of the quality of social work with people with mental illness
PODLIPNÁ, Martina
The thesis deals with the quality of mental health care, key aspect of which is the respect of human dignity. The first part characterizes the ethical and legal basis of human dignity. Further, it summarizes the ethical principles regarding human dignity formulated in codes of ethics of the particular professions represented in a multidisciplinary team providing services to people with mental illness. The next part describes selected approaches to this target group - the medical and rehabilitation models of treatment in particular. After that, the recovery approach is introduced. Recovery from mental illness is approached as a psychological process, in which people strive for a dignified life. This process has four fluid stages - hope, empowerment, self-responsibility and having a meaningful role in life. The final part discusses the contributions and difficulties of recovery approach in connection with dignity of people with mental illness. This approach fulfils the fundamental requirement of quality of social work, which is the respect to human dignity. The potential difficulties do not come from the principles of the recovery approach, but from its possible wrong implementation.

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