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The Lifelong Learning of the Social Workers in the Non Governmental Organizations
HRUBEŠOVÁ, Nikola
The diploma thesis focuses on the topic of lifelong learning of social workers who work in non-governmental non-profit organizations. The aim of this work was to find out what possibilities social workers have with a completed master's degree in the field of lifelong learning. The second important goal was to find out what the social workforce needs for lifelong learning and whether their needs are taken into account in the provision of education. Lifelong learning is an integral part of social work and it is important to take into account the needs of social workers. To achieve these goals, quantitative research was used, which was carried out with the help of a questionnaire survey, which asked a total of 28 questions, some of which were optional. A total of 61 social workers who work in a non-governmental non-profit organization and have a master's degree were contacted. As part of this quantitative research, research was conducted focused only on the South Bohemian Region, where non-governmental non-profit organizations and social workers working in them were found within the register of social service providers. A total of 36 social workers responded to the questionnaire, with the questionnaires being sent twice because unfortunately, the return was very low in the first wave. The data that were subsequently obtained from the questionnaire survey were processed both in Microsoft Excel, but also in R software. From the conducted research it is possible to conclude that social workers are satisfied with the courses offer by their employer. This shows that needs of social workers are both satisfied and motivated. Respondents stated that they regularly receive course offers from their employer. This I consider very important and perspective. This proves that the continuous education of social worker is not happening only because it is required by the government but it is happening because private non-profit organisations support it on their own. Concerning the organization in my data sample I can conclude that the needs of their social workers are taken into account.
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Current conception of the self-defence groups in Czech Republik.
BŘINKOVÁ, Eva
The bachelor's thesis deals with the issue of self-defense of adults with intellectual disabilities. Its aim is to find out the attitude of social service providers working with a group of adults with intellectual disabilities in the Czech Republic towards self-defense groups. The work is divided into two main parts - theoretical and practical. The first chapter in the theoretical part is focused on the definition of the concept of intellectual disability together with the classification and rights of persons with intellectual disabilities. The second chapter provides a definition of the concept of self-defense, its history and types of self-defense groups. The practical part of the thesis defines the set goal of the bachelor's thesis and hypotheses are set. The chosen procedure for the research survey is also described. A questionnaire survey method was used to collect the necessary data. The research group consists of respondents in the position of a manager at social service providers working with a group of adults with intellectual disabilities. Based on the information obtained, the current attitudes of social service providers in the Czech Republic towards self-advocacy groups are ascertained. In the last chapter of the empirical part of the bachelor's thesis, all the results of the questionnaire survey are summarized and the established hypotheses are evaluated.
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Social work clients with hearing disorders
Sittová, Denisa ; Krahulcová, Beáta (advisor) ; Ondrušová, Jiřina (referee)
In my thesis I deal with the specifics of social work with clients with hearing defects. The purpose of my work was to find out what experiences the students of Czech schools have with people with hearing impairments and how they orient themselves in this issue. This thesis is divided into two main parts: Theoretical and Practical. The theoretical part of my work is divided into twelve chapters, which are focused on surdopaedia, hearing impairment, diagnostics, hearing screening, education and last but not least communication, compensatory aids and specifics of social work. In the practical part I used the questionnaire to find out basic information from students from the Hussite Theological Faculty. I was wondering if there are students at the faculty who are interested in this issue and whether they would like to work with people with hearing impairment in the future.
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Involving users of social services in the community planning process in Karlovy Vary Region
Pisár, Robert ; Tollarová, Blanka (advisor) ; Růžička, Michal (referee)
This Master's thesis deals with the description of the current state of community planning of social services and the mid-term planning of development of social services in the Karlovy Vary region. At the same time, the thesis reflects the historical content which led to the use of the community planning method in The Czech Republic. In the thesis, the author uses examples from abroad and from The Czech Republic that show specific problems especially encountered by organizers planning social services. The author bases his research on his analysis of interviews held with planning coordinators in the Karlovy Vary region. From the coordinators viewpoint, they describe structure and course of social service planning processes in the region. The author also examines the role of users invited into the planning of social services, how planning organizers communicate with those users, and how all representatives evaluate the plan's results. An additional information source regading social services planning dealt with publicly available resources, particularly websites of individual cities and their regions. The objectives of using this sources were to describe the planning of social services in the Karlovy Vary region and to determine its main active players. In conclusion, the author summarizes the...
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Improving awareness of social service providers about the best ways of behavior when an emergency
KOVÁČ, David
The aim of the thesis was "To assess the current state of awareness of the personnel of the social services providers in the field of extraordinary events, to assess the effectiveness of the implemented training program". Based on the stated objective, then, to verify 2 established hypotheses. Hypothesis No. 1, ´Awareness of social service provider staff on the recommended behaviour manners during extraordinary events does not reach 80% of correct response success´ , and Hypothesis No. 2, ´Social service provider staff education leads to an improvement in the current situation of behaviour manners during extraordinary events´. To fulfill this aim, a research survey was created, which I personally carried out in 4 social service providers, fulfilling the following criteria: the social service provider had to provide a ´stay´ form, handicapped individuals had to stay there´, and the place had to be located in the region of South Bohemia. The results were being evaluated via graphics processed in Microsoft Excel Word 2007 programme. To evaluate Hypothesis No. 2 I created an educative material in an e-learning form, containing 5 thematic areas: protection of population, fire, floods, chemical substances, and radio-active substances. I introduced this educative material to the social service provider staff, and subsequently I carried out a second round of interview survey. In the results of this work I was comparing the staff´s responses before the implemented educative programme, and after. The results of my research work have proven that the less staff takes part in education on protection of population, the less individuals are introduced to the recommended manners of behaviour during extraordinary events. The educative programme has brought valuable information for the social service provider staff. An improvement was missing in certain responses, but in my opinion, this is due to an extremely expert or thematic area of questions. The educative programme has brought valuable information for the social service provider staff. A significant improvement was noticed in the second round of questionnaire survey after implementing the educative programme. An improvement was missing in certain responses, but in my opinion, this is due to an extremely expert or thematic area of questions.
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Act No. 108/2006 Coll., on social services and bureaucratization of the activities of NGOs
Kádner, Filip ; Šťovíčková Jantulová, Magdaléna (advisor) ; Deverová, Lenka (referee)
Act No. 108/2006 Coll., on social services and bureaucratization of the activities of NGOs This thesis deals with the Social Services Act (No. 108/2006 Coll.) in the context of the bureaucratization of the activities of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that are providers of social services. The first order of business is to answer the question whether the law contains elements of the bureaucracy, which the law establishes in the activities of social services providers. A second related objective is to determine whether NGO consider the elements of bureaucracy contained in the Act on Social Services as the main obstacles for the way they operate and whether in connection with their introduction observe within their organization typical dysfunctions associated with the process of bureaucratization. Theoretical background and set of research tools are based on R.H. Hall's research in the field of dimensional analysis of elements present in the structure of bureaucratic organizations. As a research method to achieve the first objective is used quantitative content analysis. The results of the analysis confirm that the Social Services Act contains elements that bureaucratise activities of social services providers. As a research method to achieve the second objective of the thesis is a quantitative...
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The issue of evacuation of people with disabilities
KOVÁČ, David
The aim of social services is the creation of conditions for satisfying people's basic needs, through support and assistance in dealing with the care of disabled people. The feeling of home creates a personal relationship. It is not just about facilities or a roof over one's head, but especially about kind and friendly staff of social facilities. The theme of the thesis is focused on the issue of evacuation of disabled persons in selected facilities. For this purpose, the research part of the work is dedicated to facilities providing social services in the South Bohemian Region, where there are staying people with different kinds and degrees of disability for most of the day time. These facilities include: homes for the elderly, special regime homes, homes for people with disabilities, respite care, weekly care centers, sheltered housing and social rehabilitation. Disabled people, in case of evacuation, are dependent on the help of others, in particular nursing staff, and on the activities of the Integrated Rescue System (IRS). This places high demands on the readiness of social facilities and personnel itself in terms of evacuation. The thesis deals with the readiness of the aforementioned social facilities for emergencies, with special emphasis on the evacuation of users living in these facilities. In the theoretical part, the issues of evacuation and ways of its division are discussed in several respects, i.e. in terms of duration, the selected solution, the method of implementation, measure extent and in terms of choice of people and in terms of danger to people. Because attention of the thesis is focused on the buildings in which persons with disabilities are grouped, building evacuation as such was described in more detail in the thesis. A substantial, and even to a considerable extent extensive, chapter talks about a description of social care services, of which I chose only those that have the form of buildings where disabled people stay. Then I chose those devices that provide residential form, because there arises an obligation to care for the person entrusted, and therefore the need for a response to emergence of an extraordinary event, which is in many cases inherently linked with implementing evacuation. Defined criteria for the selection of providers of social services (residential form of social services and the type of social services) corresponded to a total of 66 social facilities in the South Bohemian Region. For the purposes of the subsequent questionnaire it was interviewed 33 of them, chosen randomly, while the survey itself was attended by 30 facilities. For the sake of compact perspective of the problem it was necessary to define disability according to the Act no. 108/2006 Coll., on social services. According to this act, a disability is divided into visual, auditory, physical, mental and combined disability. Specifically, but not exhaustively, they are described in chapter 2. The aim of the thesis was to evaluate the readiness of selected social services of the region for evacuation. For this purpose, an extensive survey was carried out in selected facilities in the region. For the actual investigation, two questionnaires were created. One was intended for managers or responsible leaders of these facilities and contained 16 questions. The second was intended for staff and included 26 questions. It was divided into three blocks. The first block contained five questions that provide information about the respondent. The second block contained 16 questions, which reported on the knowledge of personnel in the area of evacuation, health and safety at work, fire protection and emergencies that may arise in the structure of the facility or its surroundings. The third block contains five questions, which focus on self-evaluation of the one interviewed. Results of the survey were, for the purpose of clarity, evaluated as graphs including their interpretation.
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With mental disabilities in institutional Sexual problems of clients facilities
PATEROVÁ, Michaela
Sexuality of persons with mental disability has represented a social taboo until recent times. Issues related to this topic attracted my attention so much, that I decided to obtain further information through my bachelor thesis. Bachelor thesis contains theoretical part and practical part. The theoretical part contains three chapters. In the first chapter, I explore mental disabilities. In this chapter, I also focused on etiology and causes of mental disability. In the next chapter, I focused on dealing with the term the individual with mental retardation. The term disability is described there, and it is understood as a term covering the area of functional disorders, activities and participations of specific individual. In the next section I introduce sexual issues of persons with mental disability. First topic is the education and awareness for persons with mental disabilities. In addition, I dealt with sexual abuse of persons with mental disability. Sexuality is closely linked with partner relationships, which I also mention in my thesis. In conclusion of the theoretical part I dealt with parenthood and possibilities of protection against conception. The practical part of the bachelor thesis consists of the data collection while using qualitative research techniques with the method of unstandardized in-depth interviews. The basic complex was created by parameters of the enshrined theory, when not all parameters were used according to its comprehensiveness. I set the basic research complex according to positions of the staff of the Social Service Center in Jindřichův Hradec. Two research questions were raised. Whether the staff perceives sexual life of persons with mental disability as suitable and whether the information of the professional staff about sexual life of persons with mental disability are sufficient. On the basis of the research it was found that the professional staff has sufficient amount of information, but the sexual education and training in the institution does not take place at all. Interviews showed that employees do not feel being sufficiently competent in matters of sexual education and awareness. The interviews further revealed that the employees agree with partnerships of persons with mental disability. From the interviews it was also found that they agree with the use of contraception in case that the client starts living sexual life with her partner. In addition, I found out that the majority of respondents rather do not agree with the parenthood of persons with mental disability. Regarding the issue of sexual abuse of persons with mental disability, I found out during the interview that this problem was once solved in the institution. Employees aware that these people are an easy victim, but at the same time they do not undertake any prevention in the form of sexual education. These findings show that it would be appropriate to encourage establishing the protocol, in which there would be enshrined sexual issues of users of social services provided by this institution. The protocol could also serve to the purpose of prevention of sexual abuse. Professional training focused on communication between the staff and the user in the field of sexual education would be also appropriate.
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF VOLUNTEERING AMONG THE SOCIAL SERVICE PROVIDERS IN THE REGION ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE
POŠVÁŘOVÁ, Michaela
This bachelor thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. In the theoretical part, the terms related to volunteering, European year of volunteering 2011 and the methodology of work with volunteers are defined. Social services, their providers and volunteering in social services are also characterized. In practical part, the objective, hypothesis, research methods and research results are described. To get the information needed quantitative research was chosen, data collection was done using the method of inquiry, the technique of questionnaire. The research aggregate was formed by the providers of social services in the district of České Budějovice.In the region of České Budějovice are 47 providers of which 30 responded to a questionnaire. This bachelor work showed us, that the institutions in a professional procedure are going the right way, however, in the coordination part, there are gaps.
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The social net in Cesky Krumlov region.
VALACH, Pavel
My thesis deals with the social services law. This work is focuses on the survey of social services for Cesky Krumlov region. It is further engaged in social service availibility of Cesky Krumlov region. Next it deals with possibilities of social service providers in the region.
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