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Drug Prevention among Roma Youth
Hrabcová, Marta ; Sak, Petr (advisor) ; Janošová, Pavlína (referee)
This thesis deals with the drug prevention among Roma youth. It is based on the research among the clients of Children and Youth Centre Teen Challenge Int. I have been working there as a part time worker the last three years. Using the method of in-depth half- structured interviews, I interviewed twelve clients, ages in the range of ten to sixteen years. All of them were members of the Roma minority, which is a group significantly affected by social exclusion and wide range of socially pathological phenomena, including the use of addictive substances. Given this situation, Roma youth appears to be a group highly at-risk of drug addiction. This means that special attention should be paid to this group in selective prevention efforts. Beside this, non-specific prevention is also extremely important. In this paper I tried to show that, as many risk-factors are closely related to the very ethnic specificity of this minority. Its unique cultural features must be taken into account. Non-specific prevention should focus not only on the meaningful use of free time, but it should also seek to strengthen self-confidence, positive features of ethnic identity, ability of planning and postponing satisfaction. Some other important parts of non-specific prevention could consist of efforts to teach how to accept...
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Relationship of Muslim Families Towards Czech School - The Role of Cultural and Religious Specifics in Families from the Middle East
Hrabcová, Marta ; Lorenzová, Jitka (advisor) ; Sedláčková, Daniela (referee)
The thesis Relationships of Muslim Families towards Czech School - The Role of Cultural and Religious Specifics in Families from the Middle East is a theoretical-empirical thesis focused on Muslim immigrant families living in Czech Republic whose children attend common Czech state schools and their perception of the Czech school system. The goal of the thesis is to determine what the relation of Muslim family is and how is influenced by the religious and cultural specifics. The object of the theoretical part is to convey the basic background for understanding the complex situation of the target group. The first chapter shows the families as the participants in the processes of migration and intercultural communication, the next one deals with the role of school as an environment of integration and the last chapter of this part describes essential characteristics of Islam and the Muslim community in Czech Republic. The object of the empirical part is to describe the influence of cultural and religious specifics on the Muslim families' review of experiences with Czech school. Interviews with the selected families and open and axial coding were used as the research method in this thesis. The results of the research are presented in several main sections. Those are: adjustment of the Czech education...
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Drug Prevention among Roma Youth
Hrabcová, Marta ; Sak, Petr (advisor) ; Janošová, Pavlína (referee)
This thesis deals with the drug prevention among Roma youth. It is based on the research among the clients of Children and Youth Centre Teen Challenge Int. I have been working there as a part time worker the last three years. Using the method of in-depth half- structured interviews, I interviewed twelve clients, ages in the range of ten to sixteen years. All of them were members of the Roma minority, which is a group significantly affected by social exclusion and wide range of socially pathological phenomena, including the use of addictive substances. Given this situation, Roma youth appears to be a group highly at-risk of drug addiction. This means that special attention should be paid to this group in selective prevention efforts. Beside this, non-specific prevention is also extremely important. In this paper I tried to show that, as many risk-factors are closely related to the very ethnic specificity of this minority. Its unique cultural features must be taken into account. Non-specific prevention should focus not only on the meaningful use of free time, but it should also seek to strengthen self-confidence, positive features of ethnic identity, ability of planning and postponing satisfaction. Some other important parts of non-specific prevention could consist of efforts to teach how to accept...
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