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The paper introduces psychotherapeutic experience with alcohol addicted homeless clients. The focus of the article is motivation of a client from time perspective, i.e. a development of early, continuous, and final motivation of a client to change one's life style after an intervention of the centre in Havírov. The author describes pitfalls of such motivation and refers to case studies of various clients. Readers can observe specifics of work with addicted clients without homes via symptoms of individual addiction development. The paper shows influences on clients' motivation as well as specific features of the cooperation between a therapist and a client. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper brings research findings concerning the "concentration of attention" as one of the basic preconditions for successful work with "Advanced automated command and control systems" (PASVŘ) in the environment of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic. The main aim of the research was to determine the level of attention and concentration differences among the future users PASVŘ in the context of selected mental states before and after stress. The research sample consisted of 170 respondents - students of military branches of University of Defense. The research came to interesting results. In the situation immediately after the stress occurred an increase in the number of solved problems and also in their accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents an overview of the basic principles of motivation of human behaviour from a multidisciplinary perspective. It particularly highlights the overlapping fields of psychology and physiology. The authors try to systematize insights into the prevailing theory of motivation in psychological disciplines and provide some possible explanation of recent complicated situation in this area. The paper further attempts to facilitate orientation in this complex issue. However, due to the complexity of the issue of motivation theory, it primarily focuses on finding a unified approach but does not aspire to offer a complete review. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]