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Student with depression: the perspective of a close person
Švecová, Helena ; Adámková, Jana (advisor) ; Kučerová, Olga (referee)
This thesis focuses on students with depression and their close persons. The aim of this thesis is to map various aspects of coexistence with a student suffering from depression. It uses the perspective of these close persons, whose support of students with depression is essential. The teoretical part deals with defining the concept of depression using a historical perspective and the perspective of diagnostic manuals. It also focuses on various aspects of depressive illnesses, including their impact on life of the individual. The last chapter of the theoretical part then deals with coping and coping strategies. The empirical part of this paper tries to map different strategies of support for a student with depression, which close people tend to choose. In the case of depression, as a very serious illness, it can also be assumed that the psychological state of these close ones will be affected. Following this assumption, this work also tries to map the coping strategies that close persons use to support their own mental health. A qualitative methodology was chosen to attain the research objectives. A semi-structured interview method was used to obtain data and the subsequent analysis of the text was carried out using open coding. The analysis of the interviews pointed to the subjectively most...
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The experience of parents of children with problem and disordered behavior
Voldřich, Michal ; Viktorová, Ida (advisor) ; Němec, Zbyněk (referee) ; Bílková, Zuzana (referee)
The presented dissertation focuses on the experience of parents of children with problem and disordered behavior. We build on research focused on parenting children with ADHD, with the intention of broadening our view to include the social conflict dimension in children's behavior. In the theoretical part, we examine how the categories of problem and disordered behavior are captured in medical and special pedagogical classifications. Furthermore, we elaborate on research focusing on parental experience. The research itself is based on qualitative methodology, on repeated interviews with the parents of children and their analysis through the methods of grounded theory. We are particularly interested in how the socially conflictual and medicalized dimension of problem behavior enters into experience. KEYWORDS parental experience, problem and disordered behavior, ADHD, qualitative methodology
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Epilepsy impact on quality of life in women
Prudnikova, Elizaveta ; Lustigová, Michala (advisor) ; Špačková, Petra (referee)
This thesis looks into the concept of the quality of life in women with epilepsy from a qualitative perspective. Epilepsy, as is a chronic neurological disease, affects not only everyday activities after the diagnosis, but also has its impact on the women's life regarding employment or family. By adapting the narrative analysis this thesis categorizes the influential factors of this concept into primary and secondary ones. Moreover, it explores in detail the issue of obtaining a driving license, which is one of the specifics of the people with epilepsy in Czechia. Also, it defines the respondents' attitudes toward the societal perception of epilepsy and fears that accompany it. In addition to that, the matter of motherhood and pregnancy for women with epilepsy is explored as one of the influential factors of the quality of life. Lastly, this thesis argues that the qualitative approach is essential for the initial examination of the selected sample for future investigations regarding the concept of the quality of life in epilepsy.
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The reflection of feminism in the Czech public discourse
Papcunová, Kristína ; Lupač, Petr (advisor) ; Dudová, Radka (referee)
The main objective of the present thesis is an effort to understand better how Czech women construct their views on feminism and what factors of Czech distance from feminism are, which is clearly visible in the post-1989 era. The thesis starts with the description of feminism, its development and inner differentiation. Then the author focuses on development and current situation in the Czech Republic, which is specific for its historically contingent connotation. The following section presents the analytical results of the qualitative research. By applying the technique of semi-structured interviews, the author brings up the questions of how Czech women perceive and understand feminism and how do they interpret the current situation of women. One of the main objectives of the empirical part was also to find out whether it is possible to apply Aronson's typology of feminism of the situation in the Czech Republic. Due to the specificity of the Czech environment, the author comes to the conclusion that there can be identified four different approaches to feminism. Within this framework, the analysis of interviews led to identification of several important factors that affect the construction of feminist consciousness among Czech women.
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Qualitative research in psychology: problems and perspectives
Čermák, Ivo
The study is focused on general methodological problems of qualitative research. Some of the relevant theoretical approaches linked with qualitative research are presented: post-modern epistemology, influence of feministic knowledge version of qualitative research in psychology, transpersonal methodology. Validity of qualitatively based findings is articulated as a key problem in qualitative research. Contradiction between qualitative and quantitative methodology in psychology is conceived as false and non-productive way how to understand a human being.
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The amotivational syndrome and the description of the lifestyle of heavy cannabis drug users
Gabrhelík, Roman
The so-called "amotivational syndrome" in cannabis users is said to represent changes on behavioural level and in cognitive sytle as a result of long-term, heavy use of cannabis drugs. We give a brief overview of knowledge in the course of study of the amotivational syndrome. The aim of this conference paper is to present basic information about the procedures and methods used during our study on the heavy cannabis users and analysis of their life-style. The means that we do not focus primarily on the results of our study, but we only want to present one way of how to handle this phenomenon with the qualitative research methods.
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