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Background: Penitentiary care for clients with addictology issues is still an insufficiently discussed topic. Especially if we emphasize that a significant number of clients, ie users of addictive substances (especially illegal ones) have experience in serving a custodial sentence. The fact that more attention needs to be paid to the care of users of illegal addictive substances in prisons was confirmed by the Prison Service of the Czech Republic by creating a position for addictologists in prisons in 2018, following a successful pilot project. Targets: The core of the final work are case studies with the aim of examining the issue of matching needs in individual addictology services offered by Bělušice Prison. Given the prison's limited capacity to provide addictology services, also answer the question of whether the programs and interventions provided are sufficient or whether the possibility of setting up or amending one of the intervention programs could not be considered in the future. Research group: The research method of the case study was used for the clinical part of the final diploma thesis. The method of long-term observation and the study of available documentation were used to obtain information. Reduction and organization of information was used for data analysis, ie content analyzes...

The presented bachelor thesis describes drug addiction and its effect on clients in the therapeutic community of Karlov. This bachelor thesis aims to examine the motivation of said clients to start their treatment provided by the therapeutic community of Karlov. Furthermore, this bachelor thesis also discusses the possibility of the motivation to start the treatment being influenced by the types of drugs used by the clients. Lastly, the overall functioning of the therapeutic community is also described in detail within this thesis. This bachelor thesis is divided into two parts. The theoretical part focuses on various addictive substances and their categorization. The theoretical part also describes the treatment concerning the abuse of such addictive substances, the motivation that leads to treatment and the methods used by social workers. The theoretical part concludes with the description of Karlov's therapeutic community characteristics. The practical part was conducted following the qualitative research strategy, which included the use of semistructured interviews. The sample for the semistructured interviews consists of clients of the Karlov therapeutic community. In the empirical part of the work, it was found that to join the therapeutic community Karlov, even though each client was motivated by various reasons, they began to solve their situation only when they began to lose the last thing that was important to them. Furthermore, it was found that clients began to experience drugs at a very young age and the problems associated with this addiction did not come until many years later, when the drug changed the original scale of life values for all respondents and completely disrupted personal relationships. This bachelor thesis provides insight into the issues associated with addictive substances and their subsequent treatment performed in the Karlov therapeutic community. The results of the research conducted in this bachelor thesis could be used by the Karlov therapeutic community as a basis for an improvement of their current practices.

The aim of this thesis is to describe and to evaluate the importance of group therapy during the treatment of addictions in the process of healing and social functioning of an individual and to identify the risks of group therapy. The theoretical part describes possible causes and personal presuppositions concerning the origin of addictions. It focuses on the importance of influence from one's family and raising, and how they affect addictions, codependency, psychotherapeutic approaches and models of family systems. The theoretical part furthermore characterizes group therapy, its techniques and methods, and specifies the matters, which can accompany the participants. In the practical part are processed data gained from questionnaires of respondents from therapeutical communities and after-treatment centers, who designated each group therapy, according to the perceived benefits and popularity in an ongoing treatment. The point of the research is to evaluate the relevancy of group therapy by addicted persons, to map the relevancy of each group therapy during the resolution of social issues and the acquirance of skills, and to summarize which therapeutical approaches are expected by the clients during their treatment, if they consciously approach the treatment, which factors act as healing, and which risks can accompany the treatment.

Background: The diploma thesis deals with the method of equine facilitated psychiatry and psychology and its use in the treatment of addictions. The theoretical part is the starting point of the whole work. It presents the basic methods of treatment used, the method of Equine facilitated activities and therapies itself and its inclusion in traditional methods of addiction treatment. The research part is based on qualitative data collection. Aims: The aim of the diploma thesis is to describe the use of equine facilitated activities and therapies in residential addiction treatment. Find out how patients and therapists evaluate this method, what areas of life are affected by equine facilitated activities and therapies and how it fits into current treatment methods. Data: The research group consists of eight patients from the addiction treatment department at a psychiatric hospital who met the selection criteria. And two therapists who work with the method of equine facilitated psychiatry and psychology in addicted clients / patients and met the selection criteria. Methods: The chosen type of research was process evaluation. Patients were focused on the focus using a semi-structured interview and a semi-structured interview on the therapists. Results and Conclusion: Research has shown that horses have...

This bachelor thesis is focused on alcohol addiction and describes the system of care available to alcohol addicts in the Czech Republic. The practical part of the thesis describes function of the system in practice and finds out the availability of addictological social services, healthcare services and institutional care before and during epidemy of Covid-19 in the South Bohemian region. Furthermore, the work is devoted to identifying shortcomings in the system and availability of addictological social and health services in the South Bohemian Region for alcohol addicts.

This bachelor thesis summarizes the current state of knowledge in the field of mindfulness-based relapse prevention. Over the last few decades, mindfulness has become part of several psychotherapeutic programs and has shown promising results in the treatment of a wide range of chronic diseases, including addiction. The starting point for writing this work is the absence of a document that would summarize the current state of knowledge in this field and the possibility of applying a relapse prevention program based on mindfulness in the Czech Republic. In the first part of the work, we briefly deal with cognitive-behavioral therapy and its relationship to the issue of addiction. Subsequently, we present the theory of relapse prevention according to Marlatt and Gordon, which is the most commonly used treatment intervention so far. The main part of the work is a description of the 8-week manualized program Mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP) and a proposal for the implementation of this program in the system of care for addicts in the Czech Republic. The partial goals of the work are to describe the proposed psychological mechanisms of action. Methods of source analysis and semi-structured interviews were used to meet the objectives of the work. The result of the work is a survey that provides...

Background: The psychology of behavior change and addictive substance users' motivation to get treatment is a topical issue in addictology. The reasons why patients enter treatment vary; they have different goals, and they differ in the degree to which they are able to reflect these goals. To understand addictive behavior, it is necessary to pay attention to all aspects that determine it, i.e. to recognize the abilities, opportunities and motivations of their behavior and their interaction. The topic of patient motivation at the very beginning of the institutional treatment process of addiction, i.e. when entering detox, was not given enough attention in the Czech Republic, despite the fact that detoxification is in many cases the first, indispensable step in starting medium-term and long-term residential treatment of addiction, and work with motivation is a method of direct work with patients. Aims: To map the motivation for treatment of addiction to addictive substances in patients voluntarily hospitalized at the Detox K20department at the Kosmonosy Psychiatric Hospital. To describe the characteristics of these patients, the differences in their motivation and compare their motivation in terms of socio-demographic data, preferential addictive substances, experience with addiction treatment and...

The topic of my bachelor thesis is Hagiotherapy and its benefits regarded by women who underwent institutional alcohol addiction treatment in Psychiatric hospital Bohnice and who abstain now. Hagiotherapy is a psychotherapeutic method, its name comes from Greek "therapeia" - care, treatment and "hagios" - saint, pure, holy. Hagiotherapy is a form of bibliotherapy which uses Holy Scripture as a mirror. Unlike the speech-based therapy ordinarily used among psychological means it carries a strong expressive context consisting in parallels from chosen biblical stories and the therapy is also based on the therapist himself who uses those stories and appropriate situational rituals. The aim of my thesis is to find the possible benefits of hagiotherapy for alcohol addicted women during their institutional treatment and our aim is to determine whether the women consider the method beneficial and effective in relation to their life in abstinence. In the theoretical part we first clarify some basic terms connected with addiction and its treatment. Then we treat therapeutic methods in alcohol addiction treatment, including hagiotherapy, which makes part of the process of treating alcohol addicted women in Psychiatric hospital Bohnice for a quarter century. The practical part describes the research process....

This thesis focuses on the eating habits of drug users. The aim of the study is to compare changes in eating habits among clients in therapeutic communities before entering into treatment with the subsequent state of eating habits in the first month of treatment and in the third month of treatment. Data were obtained in therapeutic communities completing food frequency questionnaires, which monitor the weight of clients and consumption of major food groups - grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy products, meat, eggs, legumes, sweets and tea. Questionnaires were administered immediately after entering treatment, to obtain retrospective information on eating habits before treatment. Clients completed the questionnaire after the first and third months of addiction treatment. Based on the analysis data obtained from the questionnaires, it was found that the average weight among treatment clients grows. Larger increases were recorded for the clients, women by an average of 2 points on a scale of BMI. The data show that consumption of commodities, cereals, fruit, dairy products and sweets among the periods before treatment, in the first month of treatment and in the third month of treatment decreased. Increased consumption was observed in commodity vegetables and tea. In the group of food meat, eggs and...

BACKGROUND - This thesis works on the assumption that one's own experience with smoking cessation along with the habit-breaking patterns that one gains from this experience, might have a positive influence on addiction treatment. It is assumed that these patterns help client with the overall treatment, the relapse prevention, motivation issues and continued abstinence. AIMS - The aim of this thesis is to investigate the effect of smoking cessation experience and the role it plays in the therapeutic community. I also focused my research on the clients' perception of the tobacco using in relation to their health, life and complete abstinence concept. METHODS - Both current smokers and ex-smokers as well as clients of two therapeutic communities were subjected to qualitative analysis. Purposive sampling method was used to select the respondents for semi-structured interview. Content analysis and partly interpretative phenomenological analysis were used to process the collected data. RESULTS - Based on the research, respondents perceive smoking negatively in relation to their health. They are aware of the tobacco dependence potential, however they do not include the issue into complete abstinence. The assumption that respondents utilize their smoking cessation experience in addiction treatment was in...

In this thesis I deal with the influence of personal lived experience of ex-users on their therapeutic work with the clients in addiction treatment. The personal experience in this case is meant an experience with the substance abuse or playing on the slot machines which led to addiction. For this work it is also important the personal experience of following treatment of addictive behavior by ex-uers themself. In the theoretical part I address the former career of ex-user in addiction services, the role of ex-user in the therapeutic team, the motivation of ex-user to work with addicted clients, but also the opportunities of his education and anchoring the work of ex-user in the Standards of services for drug users and pathological players. As the goal of the practical part I set myself to describe how the ex-user's own experiences with addiction and its treatment participate when working with clients. Besides this main objective I am also dealing with ex-user's motivation for his work, the potential risks, the impact of education on the work of ex-users and also the relationship between ex- user and his colleagues. To answer the research questions I used a semi-structured interview. To analyze the text I used the techniques of text colouring and encoding, allowing the final analysis,...

This Bachelor thesis is a sub research of the wider project focused on the impact of ADHD on selected mental functions, life skills and quality of life of the clients recovering from an addiction in the therapeutic communities. ADHD is associated with inferior adaptability and as well with more serious psychopathological symptoms. The aim of the research is to determine whether ADHD occurs in clients of the therapeutic communities and what is the prevalence. Furthermore, we search for connections with other serious clinical manifestations and evolution of these symptoms during treatment. We are also interested in retention of the clients with these symptoms in treatment process. The sample was compiled on the basis of the two-step procedure. Fundamental file in the first phase were all certified therapeutic communities for the addictions treatment. Among them were by computer randomly selected eight who participated in the research. At the second level was used a total choice of new coming clients and all of them were tested. The number of participants who filled their gender is 199. 133 men and 56 women. Data were collected directly by therapists in eight therapeutic communities. Specially designed test battery was administered after two weeks of treatment, then after three, six and nine months....

The Bachelor thesis: "Occupational therapy application in addition treatment" deals with medium-therm institucional treatment of dependants. The work contains justification of occupational therapy application in addition treatment. The theoretical part is devided to the two points. The part which deals with the addiction defines the main attributes of addiction, cause of addiction and addiction kinds. It defines in the organization of care for persons with addiction the treatment program for this target group with an emphasis on medium-term inpatient treatment, mentions phase of this treatment, concepts such as detoxification, dual diagnosis and combined therapy. It sets occupational therapy as part of treatment for people with addiction. The theoretical part is defined occupational therapy, defined its objectives, target groups, forms, techniques and describes the formation of the occupational therapy programme. The practical part is to specify the treatment of people with addiction at a particular facility with emphasis to the use of occupational therapy in this treatment. The practical part is the occupational therapy program for the target group, which focuses on developing skills in planning leisure time, developing social relationships, communication, coping skills, abilities patience,...

Title: Application and Verification of a Self-defence Program for Patients in a Psychiatric Hospital Objectives: The aim of this thesis is application of a self-defence program, created in a bachelor thesis, during an addiction treatment in Červený Dvůr, a psychiatric hospital. The thesis surveys the suitability of the educational program during addiction treatment, verification of acquired motoric skills and its possible integration in patients' free time, recommendation of the exercise to friends, and last but not least it surveys a possible interest in the program in other psychiatric hospitals. Methods: There are several methods used in the thesis. Content analysis is used for working with literature, interview is used in the conversation held with the department head and the custodian. Observation is used for watching the participants doing the exercise. Comparing is used for evaluation of the final outputs. Opinion poll is used for finding the asset of the educational program. Basic statistic methods are used for evaluating the answers in the opinion polls. Results: The suitability of the program was confirmed by two department heads in two psychiatric hospitals which are focused on addiction treatment. An interest in follow-up self-defence or martial arts exercise was found out in the...

In the thesis I focused on a process of residential treatment in a therapeutic community. Such a process is mostly divided into four stages in all therapeutic communities in the CR where different needs and tasks are required from clients. The procedure in the treatment process is evaluated by the group as well as by staff. The fulfillment of criteria in each phase is a condition needed for shifting the clients in the treatment process towards successful completion of treatment. These phases are clearly defined by therapists and clients are acquainted with them through the operating manual. The aim of the thesis is to describe the process of treatment and common elements with regard to how it is perceived and experienced by the clients during the treatment in the therapeutic community WHITE LIGHT I. Using methods of prospective study helps to describe the process of treatment and then divide it according to the common elements into ,,phases" as they are perceived by the clients themselves, and compare them with formally stated phases of treatment in the TC. The thesis is based on a qualitative approach. Data collection was conducted through prospective monitoring, ie. a different method from the previous research, which was focused retrospectively. In addition, the research used other sources of...

Rituals can be described as ceremonial acts, that have typical rules and own significance. They have their place not only for substance abusers within therapeutic communities, but in a daily life also. Usually, rituals are bonded to traditions of a specific community and they provide a possibility for an individual to identify with this community. They provide also strong emotional experience and they concern spiritual parts of the individual as well. The main objective of this study is to provide a possible view of clients of each stages of final ritual in specific therapeutic community and to find out how it is perceived and valued in a case of a given attitude on their process of own treatment. The elaborated work is focused on emotions which are experienced by clients, whether and in a case how they sense the person, to whom is the ritual addressed, and how they sense therapists and objects which are used during the ritual. In the elaborated work is used a qualitative approach. Data were collected by individual semi-structured interviews. The sample was chosen by a method of intended choice via an institution, it is consisted of therapeutic community White Light I clients, which were present in the community at that time and simultaneously participated on the leaving ritual in this community....

This work puts in aim to describe some of the specifics in working with adolescent drug users. It describes a profile of a problematic drug user and the working system in the only one specialized facility targeted on problematic drug users treatment, Cesta Řevnice. This work follows the history, structure and the program in this facility. It closely studies therapies such as individual and group therapy, profession consultancy and outdoor activities. In the second part of work are analysed the commonest abused drugs used by teenagers comming to Cesta Řevnice, characteristics of these drugs and its acute and also long-term effects on their users.

The work points to the possible causes of drug addiction, and how from drug addiction can be cured. What are the centers for drug addicts and what offering.Practical part is formed by using case studies with individuals who are addicted to marijuana and methamphetamine.

This work focuses on the concept of art therapy in Aftercare center, in the service of dealing with follow-up care for people who are recovering from addiction, especially on non-alcohol drugs. Given topic is treated in the theoretical and practical. The theoretical part of the paper summarizes the basic definitions related to drug addiction and dependent personality description, followed by an after-care services and focuses on the principles and goals of treatment of addiction. In the treatment of addiction is the default selected using psychotherapy and expressive psychotherapy - art therapy. Art therapy is described as a field, along with historical context, the definition of guidelines that define the field and determining the place of art therapy in the treatment of addiction. The introduction of practical work is described in detail Aftercare center Prevent, focusing on the course and composition of the art therapy program and representation in it. Then are presented work in the background in art therapy Aftercare center Prevent. The main place of work is to present specific case studies of clients with analysis and interpretation of artifacts that illustrate ways of working within art therapy group with respect to the method Rožnov art therapy. The conclusion summarizes the specifics of the use of art therapy in the type of equipment described and obvious benefits for the field of art therapy.

This thesis is focused on phenomenon called relapse. Specifically relapse in drug users who have an experience with after-treatment. In the theoretical part, I provide the view on drug addiction, treatment, after-treatment, PREVENT after-treatment centre and relapse itself. The empiric part contains target of research that deals with getting more information about facts related to relapse, how it is reflected by the addicted during the treatment and after it. It is used the method of semistructurated interviews whose transcription I consequently analyzed in accordance with the embedded theory. The analysis went first on the open coding level, later on the axial coding level.