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Role of social worker - challenges and limits of work
Koutná, Jolana ; Vrzáček, Petr (advisor) ; Lejsal, Matěj (referee)
1 Abstract The diploma thesis "The role of a social worker in a psychiatric hospital - challenges and limits of work" deals with the profession of a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. The diploma thesis normally consists of a theoretical and an empirical part. The theoretical part is focused on mental illness, the characteristics of serious mental illness, the profession of a social worker working in a psychiatric hospital, multidisciplinary cooperation, the specifics of working with the mentally ill, the reform of psychiatric care and the organization of inpatient psychiatric care in the Czech Republic. In the empirical part, the qualitative research methodology is described and the data, which are the result of semi-structured interviews with social workers and their clients, are interpreted. At the end of the thesis, the main research question is answered, recommendations for practice and proposals for further research are included. Keywords Social worker, social work, healthcare, psychiatric care, mental illness, psychiatric care reform, the role of social worker, multidisciplinary team
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Framing of mental illness in selected Czech media
Lacinová, Kristýna ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
This thesis focuses on the framing of mental illness in the Czech media. It defines the concept of framing and presents the characteristics, process and effects of framing. Simultaneously, the thesis discusses the concept of mental illness and its categorisation in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). The focus is on the state of mental illness in the Czech Republic. Subsequently, prominent research papers dealing with the framing of mental illness are presented. The aim of the quantitative content analysis of this thesis is to find out how Czech daily newspapers framed mental illness in the years 2018, 2020, 2022. The analysis focuses on which illnesses are mentioned, how the mentally ill are presented, how the media frame the causes and solutions of mental illness, and which sources journalists quote. The results show that stigmatising stories are the most common and that journalists tend to use episodic framing. The most cited illnesses were depression and drug addiction, and very often journalists did not specify the exact diagnosis at all.
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Influence of Social Work on Quality of Life of Clients with Mental Disorders
KVĚCHOVÁ, Pavlína
Presented bachelor thesis concerns itself with the influence of social work on the quality of life of clients with mental illness. In the theoretical part we define key terminology related to the thesis. It is primarily definition of mental illness, preceded by basic terminology of health, illness, mental health and mental illness, and further by definition and explanation of quality of life and related concepts like personal well-being and general satisfaction with life. The goal of this bachelor thesis is to map the influence of specific aspects of social work on the quality of life of clients with mental illness. To reach the goal, quantitative type of research is employed, together with quantitative research strategy. As the method of interviewing and data gathering technique two standardized questionnaires were used, complemented by one personal non-standardized questionnaire in which socio-demographic data and cooperation with experts were secured. Theory testing was done via pivot table using statistical method known as Pair T-test with help of IBM SPSS Statistics programme. The results of this research have confirmed that the influence of social work on the quality of life of clients with mental illness is a significant and important intervention that significantly influences the general level of quality of life. The tested theory is therefore confirmed. The discussion summarizes reached results and compares them with reference books that concern themselves with the topic of influence of social services on the quality of life of a client with mental illness. The end of the thesis mentions what benefit can this work bring and its possible practical application.
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Possibilities of Occupational therapy in sheltered housing for people with mental disability and psychiatric disorders
Hlaváčková, Pavlína ; Pluhaříková-Pomajzlová, Jana (advisor) ; Rodová, Zuzana (referee)
BACHELOR THESIS ABSTRACT Name, Surname: Pavlína Hlaváčková Supervizor: Mgr. Jana Pluhaříková Pomajzlová Title: Possibilities of occupational therapy in sheltered housing for people with mental disability and psychiatric disorders Abstract: The bachelor thesis focuses on the mapping and possibilities of occupational therapy in the social service of sheltered housing for people with mental disabilities and mental illnesses. Such issues of mentally ill or intellectually disabled people are described in detail in the theoretical part. Some problem areas of these groups are presented as well as potential of occupational therapy interventions. The current reform of psychiatric care, which is supposed to bring about an improvement of psychiatric care and deinstitutionalization, is being addressed. Stigmatisation and overlooking by society is also a common theme of people with mental and psychiatric illnesses. Finally, a sheltered housing service is presented, especially for the above- mentioned groups. The practical part deals with the results of a questionnaire survey that was mapping occupational therapy in sheltered housing for people with mental and psychiatric illness in the Czech Republic. On the basis of these results, the studied literature and the acquired practice, a proposal of possibilities for...
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Ways of recovery in the context of Recovery approach
PETRŽÍLKOVÁ, Hana
The point of my final work is to introduce a social worker in multidisciplinary team, who works on the fundamental of Recovery way, like a way which is aimed on the picking responsibility of the client and his/her decision. Then to look for the client´s meaningful life and what part in this process is the part of social worker.The work is divided into four chapters, which try to introduce the mental disease and its difficulty. Next chapters are more aimed in Recovery attitude. Then there is used a CARe method, which comes from the Recovery way and how a social worker works with it. It shows his/her role in the multidisciplinary team, whis is using Recovery way, and how they work with people with mental disease. Finally I use the casuistry and particular ways of clients and the work of social worker, who works with the instruments that support the way back to recovery.
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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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The specifics of emergency medical services care of mental health patients
DUPAL, Jakub
The specifics of emergency medical services with care of mental health patients Abstract The topic of this bachelor thesis is "The specifics of emergency medical services with care of mental health patients." The aim of this bachelor thesis is to map the types of procedures used in this area. We have divided this thesis into several parts. The first part of this thesis is theoretical, we deal with the characteristics of the personality traits of paramedic and related competences, because I consider competences in this area as crucial. In the second part, this thesis deals with the communication which represents fundamental ability of every paramedic. The last third of the theoretical work depicts and defines mental illnesses covered in this thesis. Next part of this bachelor thesis represents a research, we have used following questions to formulate research: VO 1: What are the procedures of a paramedic in contact with a mentally ill person? VO 2: What are the specifics in the work of operator in the medical operation center with a mentally ill person? VO 3: What are the risks in the work of paramedic with mentally ill person? The aim of this bachelor thesis was to deal with the procedure of paramedics and operators in medical operation center in the contact with mentally ill patients, whose state requires immediate emergency medical care provided by Emergency Medical Service. The additional aim of this bachelor thesis was to monitor the potential risks of providing emergency medical care to patients with mental illnesses. The result of our research was to answer the set research questions. The answer to question VO 1 was that there is a set of procedures used in the contact with mentally ill patients, but we cannot use them to all possible states. The answer to VO 2 was similar to VO 1, operators in medical operation center use certain procedures, but it is up to their immediate decision how they deal with the receiving call. The answer to VO 3 was that the risk for paramedic in the work with mentally ill patient is potential emergence of aggression. Another risk is the communication itself. Paramedics have to know their possibilities in dealing with this situation and they have to be aware of their legal boundaries too.
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Peer consultants as part of the community teams in the organization FOKUS Vysočina
KUČEROVÁ, Barbora
The thesis deals with the representation of peer consultants in the community team, spe-cifically in community teams of the organization FOKUS Vysočina. The thesis is divi-ded into three chapters. The first chapter explains terms like: mental health or social work. The chapter also deals with the specifics of social work with people with mental illnesses. The second chapter is an introduction to the organization FOKUS Vysočina and specifically the work of the community teams. The chapter intorduces the target group, working representation, job description and methods of work in this organization. The third chapter explains the concept of peer support. It also focuses on the work of peer consultants in FOKUS Vysočina. The end of this chapter is partially composed of individual stories of peer consultants who work in FOKUS Vysočina. The stories inclu-de a personal view of the peer consultant's topic and its potential influence on the re-covery of clients. The thesis shows that the peer consultant is necessary and very significant for community teams. The statements of the peer consultants do not contradict the results of the studies and the knowledge from literature. It is evident that peer consultants in FOKUS Vysočina can have a very positive effect on the recovery of clients.
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The experience of the art therapist with the creation of clients with mental illness
ŠVECOVÁ, Nikol
This thesis aims to present adolescence, fundamental changes, and troubles typical for this age such as a crisis as self-destruction and suicide attempted. This work is to set out various possibilities of support, treatment, therapy, and diagnostics of these complicated situations. Art Therapy is shown as support tools for adolescents. Two case studies of two clients are represented in the practical part and their Art Therapeutic professional experience.
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