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Coping with Stress of Parents with Autism Spectrum Disorder Children
BAUEROVÁ, Denisa
The topic of my work is how to manage the long-term challenges for parents with a child suffering from an autistic spectrum disorder. The main aim of my Bachelor's work is to show and chart the possibilities offered to parents in the České Budějovice area as they try to deal with the related stresses and burdens. My aim is also to document the social service institutions and activities available to these parents. Qualitative research was used to fulfill these aims. The chosen research sample for this strategy were the parents with children who have an autistic spectrum disorder, living in the České Budějovice area, or using social services there. Communicative partners were chosen and the snowball sampling technique was used. Data was acquired using direct questioning and structured conversation. The data was then evaluated by open coding and interpretative phenomenal analysis. It is clear from the results that the parents use a support structure whereby they share the burden among family members and friends, and use the help of specialists in psychiatry. They also receive social security payments to consolidate and enhance the economic security of the family. It was also found that half of the parents cooperate with different organizations offering help to children with these needs. Another aspect that was clear from the results was that the families were fully informed about the different institutions and organizations that were available to help people with autistic spectrum disorder, including their families. This has been documented in the theoretical part of this work. The research showed that parents noticed the high occupancy in these institutions for people with PAS problems. Half of them would be really happy to see an increased capacity in these institutions, and to also create other organisations aimed at helping people. This work and its results can be used as an information source for people and institutions who care for, and are interested in, people with autistic spectrum disorders and their families. It could also be used as a general education resource for this area.
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Coping with Stress in Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Brožová, Kateřina ; Horáková Hoskovcová, Simona (advisor) ; Mertin, Václav (referee)
in English: This diploma thesis is focused on parents coping with the burden of having children with autism spectrum disorder. It's goal is to analyze parent's strategy to cope with such burden in relation to taking care of a child with autistic spectrum disorder. Thesis is constructed as an emprical qualitativeresearch which also involves quantitative data. Data were acquired via half - structured interviews with parents of children with autism spectrum disorder.Furthermore, a questionnaire SVF 78 "Strategy of stress management" was used and filled out by the parents. The data were subsequently qualitatively analyzed and interpreted using content analysis. Finally, a comparison to specialized literature was performed. The text of the thesis itself is composed of three parts. First part includes theoretical solutions that are based on both Czech and foreign literature concerned with autism theory and coping with stress of parents bringing up an autistic child. Second part is focusing on the methodology and data analysis procedure. The final third part is dedicated to the interpretation of interviews and discussion results, combined with results of available literature research. The benefit of this diploma thesis is discovery of what helps to parents of autistic children to cope with the stress...
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Coping with Stress in Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Brožová, Kateřina ; Horáková Hoskovcová, Simona (advisor) ; Mertin, Václav (referee)
in English: This diploma thesis is focused on parents coping with the burden of having children with autism spectrum disorder. It's goal is to analyze parent's strategy to cope with such burden in relation to taking care of a child with autistic spectrum disorder. Thesis is constructed as an emprical qualitativeresearch which also involves quantitative data. Data were acquired via half - structured interviews with parents of children with autism spectrum disorder.Furthermore, a questionnaire SVF 78 "Strategy of stress management" was used and filled out by the parents. The data were subsequently qualitatively analyzed and interpreted using content analysis. Finally, a comparison to specialized literature was performed. The text of the thesis itself is composed of three parts. First part includes theoretical solutions that are based on both Czech and foreign literature concerned with autism theory and coping with stress of parents bringing up an autistic child. Second part is focusing on the methodology and data analysis procedure. The final third part is dedicated to the interpretation of interviews and discussion results, combined with results of available literature research. The benefit of this diploma thesis is discovery of what helps to parents of autistic children to cope with the stress...
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Protective factors of primary school pupils and their meanings.
HARAZÍMOVÁ, Nela
The aim of this thesis is mapping the protective factor problems of pupils of the 6th to 9th grades and their meaning. It follows mostly social support, resiliency and self-efficacy as an important protective factors. It also defines protective and risk factors. The thesis focuses on the influence of different protective factors on the life style and well-being of the secondary degree of a primary school in the context of child development, with the emphasis on perception of social support from parents, teachers and classmates, using the standardized research CASSS-CZ.
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Stress related to nurturing children with special needs
TOMÁŠKOVÁ, Zuzana
Birth of a disabled child is always an extraordinary event in our life. A family is facing the situation without a prearranged screenplay. Not only the special needs differ from common children´s needs but also developmental conditions are completely different. Parents can feel disappointed and dependent on the assistance from others.The situation is new and unfamiliar for them and therefore they learn how to improve the approach to their child, themselves or the whole world. The theme ot this thesis is ?How parents manage to bring up the child with special needs..?It should bring authentic information about the situation of parents with a disabled child, statements about their problems and needs. It is based on the qualitative research. I collected data and information through semi-structured interviews with parents who have a child with such a special need. In the theoretical part of the thesis I tried to go from a general explanation to a detailed descriptoin of the topic. In the introductory chapters I deal with the issue of stress and burden coping. The next issue is the family, its function, families with disabled children and last but not least inappropriate educational approaches. The chapter about burden coping is an integral part of this thesis. Here I describe individual phases of accepting a disabled child and mention the topic of a social stigma as well. The fourth chapter is about the possibility how to support such affected families not only from the familly members but also from other friends. The last but one chapter describes the burnout, its symptoms and risk factors. A mother usually stays at home with this child and takes care of him. The disabled child might require full-time care which is very demanding and grueling. That is why the mother could be compromised by the burnout. In the last part I tried to specify problems of the families I interviewed. I describe a spinal muscular atrophy, an epilepsy, a mental retardation and its classification, a motor disability for example poliomyelitis. In the empirical part of the thesis I define research objectives. 1) to find out what is the biggest burden for parents with a disabled child 2) to find out how parents manage to accept this situation 3) to find out what is the biggest support for parents You can find the responses in the part ?Interpretation of research results?. The largest burden for parents with a disabled child is to accept the disability of their child. All the respondents find this period as the most distressing and demanding time in their child care. Surprisingly, the second largest burden of parents is to handle with different specialized institutions which are supposed to help them. The respondents found the biggest help and support in their families, husbands and also by communication with other similar families . According to parents there is a lack of written information about the disability and unsufficient availability of such information in Czech language.
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The hygiene of psychic health and prevention of burning out in assistance profession
HALO, Dagmar
The workdeals with theissue of hygiene ofpsychiche alth and prevention of burning out in the performance oft heassistance profession. The theoretical part defines the rangeof topicsin intervening in the problems which are characteristic of the helping professions, stress, mental hygiene, as well as techniques of copingwith stress and burnout. The practical part is devoted to the realization of mental hygiene program, held in collaboration with workers of Social Service Centre Empathy in České Budějovice. The aimof the program was to assist the participants to acquire the theoretical and practical skills of psychichealth. The program is in detail devoted to the progress and final outcomes.
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