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Ethics in Social Work
POLÁČKOVÁ, Radka
The thesis deal with the theme of death and dying. Above all, it focuses on the ethical issues of palliative care oriented to quality of life for terminal patients. The main goal is to formulate ethical principles of care, reflections on the ethics of care for patients with terminal illnesses and difining ethical problems and dilemmas associated with the process of dying.
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Training and Education of Volunteers in the Home Hospice "Cesta domů" - the Homecoming
Matochová, Jana ; Haškovcová, Helena (advisor) ; Váňová, Věra (referee)
The issue of death and dying affects everyone, it is not easy and yet a natural part of everyone's life. Hospice care offers help and support a dying man and his close on the last trip "home". This thesis describes the possibilities of a preparatory course for the volunteers who play an irreplaceable role in hospice care. The practical part describes the specific example from the conditions of the Czech home hospice - The Home Coming, which is being commented on the ground of literature and my personal experience. The outcome of the research is the feedback for the management of the home hospice - The Home Coming, including recommendations for changes of the preparatory course.
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Youth and the Fear of Death
Halamásek, Šimon ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Kotík, Michal (referee)
This thesis focuses on death, fearing of death and the way youth is perceived by western society as a preferred era in the life of an individual. It defines youth as a sociodemographic category and examines the problematic role of youth in modern society. It offers an insight into historical perspectives on death, fear of it and how these perspectives have changed. It examines Plato's theory of reincarnation, medieval Christianity's stance towards death, Hume's critical view of whether a soul actually exists and Heidegger's perception of death as an authentic way to end one's life. The thesis emphasizes the fear of death in modern society and the absence of relevant thanatological literature that would approach death in modern society as a complex phenomenon. It notices the ambivalent attitude towards youth in the history of modern society and pinpoints the peculiar position of youth the 20th century. It includes both the rise of the so- called death awareness movement in the second half of 20th century, as well as the hospice movement, that slowly brings brings back the original and private meaning of death into society. This thesis also examines whether the current modern society is in fact death- denying. At its very end, the thesis ponders about the possible future of death as a phenomenon in the modern...
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The Phenomena of Death in a Social Worker's Job
Šurková, Diana ; Krahulcová, Beáta (advisor) ; Stretti, Sylvie (referee)
The death of a loved one is currently a very common topic, and it is important for a social worker to keep it in mind. This thesis is called "The Phenomena of Death in a Social Worker's Job". The theoretical part was made by using analysed relevant literature, chosen by snowballing sampling. This thesis is divided into three chapters. The first two chapters focus on the theory and definition of death, anticipation and sudden death, suicide, mourning and options to help the survivors. The third chapter contains the practical part, with research data, including charts and graphical interpretation. The goal of this empiric research is to use semi-structured online surveys to answer the main research question: "How do students of the second year of postgraduate study of major SACH at HTF UK feel about their readiness to handle death of their clients and confrontation with survivors during their work?" I was trying to find out whether students at our faculty are considering this topic and how they feel about it. The research shows that students do not feel prepared to encounter these topics during their work. The most important part of the thesis I consider a subchapter, which contains interviews with social workers who have already encountered deaths and survivors during their work. I am using these...
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The Contemporary Legislative Scope of Palliative Care in EU Countries
PLOCKOVÁ, Jana
Palliative care is new multidisciplinary field that aims towards development and continuity of the end-of-life care and it has undergone a relatively short evolution in the Czech Republic. The Bachelor work concerns care of patients with serious life-threatening disease. It describes development of palliative care and conducts a survey of economic end legislative background that impacts its integration into the health and social system. It provides comprehensive insight into needs of terminally ill patients and outlines alternatives of their solution. The final qualifying work is theoretical, and its aim is to cover the care specifics in the Czech Republic and in selected countries of the EU. It subjects areas that are related to development and quality of the palliative care, i.e. educating of physician, nurses and other professionals, legislation and funding.
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Awareness of pupils from selected high schools about issue of dying
Procházková, Tereza ; Hanušová, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Zvírotský, Michal (referee)
The thesis deals with the subject of dying and death and focuses on secondary school students' awareness of this issue. The theoretical part of the thesis describes stages of dying, the needs of a dying person and their emotional state. Furthermore, it distinguishes between dying at home and dying in a health care institution. In the following chapters, the thesis focuses on palliative care, the process of grieving, funeral rites and the issue of euthanasia. The method of the theory was reading of literature that specializes in the issue. The practical part of the thesis compares data from questionnaires given to secondary school students on the topic of death and dying. The research shows that the students' awareness of the issue is considerably low - 84% respondents did not know what the term "palliative care" meant, 88% respondents did not know what the term "hospice" meant and 74% respondents were not familiar with the term "euthanasia". The research has found that there is a need to broaden the secondary school students' knowledge on the topic of dying. KEYWORDS thanatology, dying, death, euthanasia, palliative care
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Korean Funeral Rituals: Traditions and Transformations
Pospíšilová, Jana ; Zemánek, Marek (advisor) ; Löwensteinová, Miriam (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to explore the funeral rites in Korea with concentration on rites changes in the 20. and 21. century. The first chapter focuses on the ritual and rites of passage generally, whereas the second chapter reflects funeral rites from the view of religious traditions, like Shamanism, Buddhism and Confucianism. The third chapter observes the introduction of Christianity in Korea, Korean social modernization and its influence on contemporary Korean funeral services.
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Youth and the Fear of Death
Halamásek, Šimon ; Balon, Jan (advisor) ; Kotík, Michal (referee)
This thesis focuses on death, fearing of death and the way youth is perceived by western society as a preferred era in the life of an individual. It defines youth as a sociodemographic category and examines the problematic role of youth in modern society. It offers an insight into historical perspectives on death, fear of it and how these perspectives have changed. It examines Plato's theory of reincarnation, medieval Christianity's stance towards death, Hume's critical view of whether a soul actually exists and Heidegger's perception of death as an authentic way to end one's life. The thesis emphasizes the fear of death in modern society and the absence of relevant thanatological literature that would approach death in modern society as a complex phenomenon. It notices the ambivalent attitude towards youth in the history of modern society and pinpoints the peculiar position of youth the 20th century. It includes both the rise of the so- called death awareness movement in the second half of 20th century, as well as the hospice movement, that slowly brings brings back the original and private meaning of death into society. This thesis also examines whether the current modern society is in fact death- denying. At its very end, the thesis ponders about the possible future of death as a phenomenon in the modern...
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Dilemmas in thanatology in the 21st century
Řáhová, Anna ; Krahulcová, Beáta (advisor) ; Cimrmannová, Tereza (referee)
Dilemmas in thanatology in the 21st century In the thesis "Dilemmas in thanatology in the 21st century" I focused on the definition of the contradictory questions about the end of human life. I found that most of the respondents of different age groups, who were involved in the care process and responded to the questionnaire, are acquainted with the issue of thanatology. They assess this issue as emotionally challenging, difficult and professionally untreated. In addition, I investigated the needs of helping professions in the issue of communication barriers in the topic of death and dying. I came to the conclusion that communication on this subject is displaced, missing training and there is a lack of the literature on this topic. Due to the unrepresentativeness of the survey I assess the result obtained only as the orientation indicator according to the issue under the investigation. This result rather opens up further contradictory questions in the thanatology.
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Nursing role in providing care to dying patients at retirement homes
STAŇKOVÁ, Petra
The aim of this thesis is to describe a nurses role in providing care to dying clients at retirement homes. In connection with this goal, were set out five Research questions, which are: What are the specifics of nursing care for a dying client at retirement home? What are the specific needs of a dying client at retirement home? What are the specifics of communication with a dying client at retirement home? How do the nurse ant the family of a dying client cooperate? What is the approach of nurses to the care of the client at retirement home? The empirical part of this bachelor thesis was elaborated by the method of qualitative Research survey, which was realized by the technique od a semi-structured interview. The interview consisted of 24 questions, supplemented in some cases by additional questions. The interview was divided into 6 parts identification, specifics of care, dying client's needs, communication with a dying client, cooperate with the family and nurses approach. Interview were overwritten and processes by open-coding, pencilpaper technique. The research group consisted of nurses working at the time at retirement homes. This bachelor thesis was written in a certain way, to bring basic overview of the nursing role in providing care to dying clients at retirement homes. Based on the findings, supplemented by the knowledge of experts in the fields of thanatology and paliative care, will be create a handbook for nurses ant other staff caring for dying clients at retirement homes.
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