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Occupational Therapy Support for Families of Children with Cerebral Palsy
Moulíková, Iveta ; Marková, Olga (advisor) ; Vavříková, Marianna (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with occupational therapy support for families taking care of children with cerebral palsy. The work aims at defining areas where occupational therapists can support these families and also assess how the asset of occupational therapy intervention is viewed by the caregivers themselves. In the theoretical part, cerebral palsy and its most frequent therapies (with accent on occupational therapy) are briefly described. The theoretical part focuses on informal care, the family of the child with cerebral palsy and the consequences that the long-term care brings. The last part of the theoretical part deals with the way how occupational therapists should work with parents who take care of children with cerebral palsy and also introduces the areas where they can do so. Based on the interviews with occupational therapists, the practical part sums up the areas of occupational therapy support for families of children with cerebral palsy and subsequently assesses the support by means of a questionnaire for caregivers. Occupational therapy support for families of children with cerebral palsy is not a common part of practice yet, although occupational therapy can offer the caregivers a lot. The current deficiencies of occupational therapy focused on the support for caregivers that...

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