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This Diploma Thesis focuses on the divorce of matrimony and its influence on children. It is attempting to provide a compact basic overview of how difficult time in life it can be. What are the needs and fears of children whose family is breaking apart. The aim of the Thesis is to map out the needs of the children in time of divorce and find out what kind of influence it had on them when they were growing up. The theoretical part consists of specialised literature that will be of help to us in understanding the divorce issues specifically in the area of the children's needs and fears during the uneasy life situations as a divorce. Empirical part is concerned with phenomenological approach. With the help of halfstructured interview with adults whose parents got a divorce during their pubescence and adolescence. Interview which maped out the needs according to Maslow's hieararchy of needs. The intention is to point out the fulfilling and unfulfilling needs of children at the times of their parent's divorce. Next there are recommendations, that should not be forgotten when it comes to a divorce, for parents from the respondents. Key words Divorce, children and divorce, family, needs and fears of children, pubescence, adolescence

The diploma thesis focuses on the lifestyle of pupils of the 2nd grade of elementary school. The work describes their current lifestyle, because it changes with time. It reveals some negative facts and other knowledge that can lead to a better perception of contexts and enable more conscious approaches to prevention and a more efficient selection of practices at elementary schools. The thesis describes concepts of health, prevention, lifestyle and some of its aspects, attitudes, values and the developmental stage of the older school age. The research finds aspects of adolescent lifestyle and tries to find a relationship between gender and some lifestyle specifics and describes their current attitudes and value orientation, using a quantitative research strategy through a questionnaire. The result of this work is a description of the findings related to the pubescent life.

The thesis focuses on the period of individual adolescence. It presents definitions of adolescence as well as describes physical, psychical, and social changes relevant to the period. It also includes developmental and psychological theories concerning this period. The case study is focused on a family which experienced the puberty of their children. It examines the period within the context of family relationships. It then asks what puberty symptoms are characteristic and how puberty affected relationships among family members and relationships with the social environment.

The thesis deals with the issue of inclusion of people with disability into everyday life and the perception of these people by healthy pupils. The main aim of the thesis was to explore the impacts on attitudes of the pupils of middle school age towards people with the combined form of disabilities and the changes caused by the direct interaction between them and. The text is divided into two parts theoretical and practical. The theoretical part focuses on the phenomenon of otherness and its perception by pupils in the adolescence. The largest part is devoted to the integration and inclusion of people with disability into the mainstream education. The research part contains a qualitative research strategy, where the methods of questioning techniques and semi-structured interview were used. Data were analysed by the cluster method. The research group consisted of 20 pupils of class 7. A from one of the primary schools in the Vysočina region, who had personally met individuals with disabilities. The task of the research was to find a solution to following question: What effects do the inclusion supporting primary school activities, allowing personal contact with a person with the combined disabilities, have on the attitude of pupils of middle school towards this group of people? The research results show that personal meetings greatly influence the attitudes of the pupils towards the people with various disabilities. Mutual interaction leads to understanding and students begin to perceive them as normal people with the rights and skills to live as well as those without disabilities. All informants agreed that inclusion supporting activities ended up as a very good experience for them. They are no longer afraid of the future meetings with this group of people, they know what to expect and how to communicate with them. Inclusive education is currently a hot topic however it is necessary to explore this issue even more, in order to smooth the inclusion of individuals with disabilities among healthy populations. I personally consider it very important, in order to change the attitudes of the general public to people with disabilities. Achieving this goal is possible, as it is evident from the research of the thesis, by using inclusion supporting activities organized at the primary schools.

This thesis is about educational systems which were characterized by Kurt Zadek Lewin and his co workers based on Lewin's research. The goal of the thesis was to find out which educational styles prefer the children and youth in the age of pubescence and adolescence. The thesis is divided in 4 main parts, where each of the part fit the individual chapters. The first chapter deals with the characteristics of development during adolescence and pubescence, with regard to the developmental tasks, which should be based on appropriate educational goals and the overall style of education. The second chapter describes upbringing and educational activity of the teacher; it specifically defines the interaction between the teacher and educated individual, and characterizes the overall style of education. The third chapter explains authoritarian, liberal and democratic style of education. The final chapters content is my own quantitative research, in which the questionnaires were used. The intention of this research corresponds with the above stated goal.

The dentate gyrus of the hippocampal formation generates new granule neurons throughout life. The number of neurons produced each day is inversely related to age, with thousands more produced during puberty than during adulthood, and many fewer produced during senescence. In adulthood, approximately half of these cells undergo apoptosis shortly after they are generated. Most of these cells can be rescued from death by effortful and successful learning experiences (Gould et al., 1999; Waddell and Shors, 2008; Curlik and Shors, 2010). Once rescued, the newly-generated cells differentiate into neurons, and remain in the hippocampus for at least several months (Leuner et al., 2004). Here, we report that many new hippocampal cells also undergo cell death during puberty. Because the juvenile brain is more plastic than during adulthood, and because many experiences are new, we hypothesized that a great number of cells would be rescued by learning during puberty. Indeed, adolescent rats that successfully acquired the trace eyeblink response retained thousands more cells than animals that were not trained, and those that failed to learn. Because the hippocampus generates thousands more cells during puberty than during adulthood, these results support the idea that the adolescent brain is especially responsive to learning. This enhanced response can have significant consequences for the functional integrity of the hippocampus. Such a massive increase in cell proliferation is likely an adaptive response as the young animal must emerge from the care of its mother to face the dangers, challenges, and opportunities of adulthood.

The diploma thesis deals with issues concerning the human rights of children living in a family or away from a family, using comparative views of both alternatives. In the theoretical part, the thesis focuses on the basic facts related to human rights and children's rights, followed by details on the theme of adolescence, concretely pubescence. Changes from the perspective of developmental psychology are described, specifically in areas that have fundamental impact on adolescents. The thesis then concentrates on themes concerning the phenomenon of a family, its role, its current forms, the styles of upbringing and the methods that families use. The last portion of the theoretical part focuses on institutional care for children. The historical evolvement of institutional upbringing is described, concretely children's homes, whereby attention is paid to the risks arising from growing up in an institution. In the practical part, the thesis focuses on my research conducted in the form of questionnaires that examine the legal awareness of children aged 10 15 years. In closing, I present the findings that have been evaluated and processed graphically.

This thesis 'Factors in the popularity of teachers with pubescents' has theoretical and empirical character. The aim of the thesis is to examine factors in the popularity of teachers with pubescents in the second grade of elementary schools by the method of questionnaire. Theoretical part is focused on teachers and the period of adolescence. In the first part there are explained terms like teacher, teacher's personality, typology and authority of teachers. Further there are closely explained pedagogical competences. The second part is mostly focused on pubescent characteristics from the perspective of physical, emotional, cognitive and social development. Practical part is based on quantitative research. The aims and assumptions of research are stated in this part. Questionnaire survey is based on answers of students of three elementary schools in České Budějovice. Results of research are accompanied by tables and graphs. Assumptions are verified in conclusion as well as summarized findings of teachers' popularity with pubescents.

The aim of this thesis is mapping the protective factor problems of pupils of the 6th to 9th grades and their meaning. It follows mostly social support, resiliency and self-efficacy as an important protective factors. It also defines protective and risk factors. The thesis focuses on the influence of different protective factors on the life style and well-being of the secondary degree of a primary school in the context of child development, with the emphasis on perception of social support from parents, teachers and classmates, using the standardized research CASSS-CZ.

This diploma thesis deals with Conduct disorder among pupils at the secondary school. It consists of two parts - theoretical and practical one. The theoretical part will be explained in detail the issue of behavioral disorders in children at the secondary school. There are also included chapters dealing with under-age-limit alcohol drinking and smoking since the thesis is focused on such topics. Alcohol and smoking addiction is among others reflected in questionaire investi within the practical part. The aim of the thesis is to find out what type of alcohol is mostly consumed by lower secondary school learners, in which way the information about drugs are transmited by teachers and how much learners are interested in such information. Keywords

This thesis deals with quality of life with regard to circadian and diurnal rhytm of children at children´s homes in South Bohemia. The theoretical part deals with pubescent and adolescent age of a child, circadian and diurnal rhytm, sleep and life quality of children. I also describe issues of value orientation, family and upbringing at children´s institutions. The most important part of the thesis was questionnaire development. QuestionnaireThe Circadian Typology CIT Harada, Krejčí (2010). There is a group of pubescents (10-14 years) and a group of adolescents (15-19 years). My research involves children´s homes in Písek, Volyně, Radenín, Žíchovec, Koryto, Boršov nad Vltavou, Homole and in Zvíkovské Podhradí. Data collecting took place since February 2012, to October 2012. The conclusion of the thesis shows results of completed questionnaires from 118.

The objective of this diploma thesis is to provide basic orientation in the topic of the adolescents stress and key concepts of this topic. The next objektive of the thesis is to compare the individual effects of Adolescents stress at grammar schools. Theoretical part of the thesis defins the basic terms - difficult life situation, stress, frustration, conflicts, escape, aggression, coping strategies, stress management programs and concepts related to adolescence - age groups, pubescence, adolescence, results of adolescents stress. Practical part of thesis defines the objectives and assumtions for evaluation, describes used method of evaluation, approximate research course and in the end verifies the assumptions.

This thesis deals with the topic of education in relation to child offenders. The theoretical part describes the current state and structure of children's criminality in the Czech Republic, its possible causes, characteristics and measures that can be imposed on children under the age of fifteen. The thesis introduces institutions in which children are placed, and educational and therapeutic procedures that can work with these children to use. The practical part of this thesis contains four case studies of selected cases of child offenders.

This work evaluates the quality of life of children (aged 10-18) in children's homes. The theoretical part deals with defining terms such as alternative care, foster care and institutional care. Next section describes the periodization of human development, specifically deals with the age category of puberty and adolescence. The last chapter of the theoretical part focuses on the quality of life and circadian rhythms. In the practical part the results of the survey, which took place in three children's homes in Prague, are presented. The standardized questionnaire for children ComQOL (Czech version) was used for the research part. The aims of the work were to determine the quality of life of children (in particular relating to circadian rhythms) and on the basis of collected data evaluate the compliance with the habits of sleep patterns and overall sleep hygiene of girls and boys interviewed from the selected children's homes. In both age groups non-regularity of sleep hygiene was found, especially at weekends when sleep time is delayed to late night

The present bachelor thesis consists of two parts, theoretical and practical. Its theoretical part engages in the characteristics of growing up and aging, and describes pubescence, senescence, old age, with all changes that these life phases bring with them. Furthermore, it examines the problems of ageism or discrimination because of age. The practical part of the bachelor thesis is based on research and findings that were acquired in such research. The objective of the whole thesis was to determine - by means of a semantic differential - teenagers? opinions of seniors and vice versa. Our intention was to ascertain from respondents, who completed record sheets, if they are prejudiced in any way against the other generation and if they are influenced by stereotypes. Identical record sheets were prepared for both target groups, whereas these record sheets introduced contradictory traits of character., such as slow-fast, beautiful-ugly, tidy-untidy, communicative- uncommunicative and similar. Results of this evaluation of individual character traits performed by respondents reveal apparent differences. However, the overall findings show that both groups perceive each other positively. This bachelor thesis may be used for future publication activities and as potential documentation tackling the issues of ageism.

The bachelor thesis deals with the self-conception and identity of pubescents and adolescents in terms of the South Bohemian Region. The theoretical part encloses the history of self-conception, self-conception from the view of contemporary psychology, it explains the terms of adolescence and pubescence. Furthermore, it deals with the individual elements, which are connected with self-conception and identity. Basically, it is e.g. the cognitive aspect of Me, self-definition, temperament, self-evaluation, values, motivation, emotionality, social environment. The thesis also provides information about Czech and foreign research of adolescents? self-conception and self-evaluation. The practical part informs of an experimental sample, stated experimental questions and hypotheses, on the basis of which a mixed research strategy was chosen. In terms of the quantitative research, the Rosenberg?s self-esteem scale was used. This quantitative research was enriched of a qualitative research part, which consisted in a short contemplation of ?What I am like and what I would like to be like (what I would like to change)?.

TITULE: Leisure aktivity of pupils and students in the youth home AUTHOR: Dagmar Maternová DEPARTMENT: Department of schoul education and social pedagogy SUPERVISOR: Doc. Ing. Jitka Vodáková, CSc. ABSTRACT: The aim of this bachelor's thesis was to find out how students and pupils evaluate past time activities in the boarding house at our schoul. After getting known the legislation of boarding houses and the characteristics of age - groups of accomodated students the survey was accomplished. Each student evaluated the past time activities in the same way they are evaluated at school (1-5). For better grafic presentatoin of the results the evaluation was converted into points. Final results were put into charts and diagrams. Our schoolmistresses evaluated freetime activities in the same way as students did. There were made a list of activities that students and pupils liked and it was compared with the list that mistresses set. The conculsion was to think about these results and their using for organizing past activities in our boarding house for the next school year.

Psychological aspects are various during the adolescence. Adolescents and their behaviour are influenced by many factors. This thesis is aimed at chicane problems, truancy and all sorts of addiction. These asocial and often also antisocial psychological effects inhibit children and adolescents from adequate developing. The surroundings, where the children and adolescents are growing up, is disturbed. Because there are more children with problems mentioned above, I would like to focus on prevention. During the interviews with teachers at primary and secondary schools, I would like to find out, if there are any prevention activities at their schools.

This bachelor thesis deals with the context of using illegal drugs, especially during pubescence, adolescence and early adulthood, and focuses on the circumstances of first use of particular illegal drugs. The theoretical part defines an issue of gaining experiences with drugs and its overuse in context of socially pathological phenomenon and in context of psychopathology, mentions various personal and external motivation factors leading to the decision to use a psychoactive substance. In this part, there are described psychoactive effects of frequently abused drugs as well as risk impacts of usage drugs on consumer. This thesis also provides peripheral outline of the present situation in the matter of using drugs in Czech Republic. It also contains reflections about prevention possibilities. The empirical part includes a qualitative research, concerned to a wider context of first experiences with various illegal drugs, to description of these events and their consequences. The research questions are also stated in this part. The essential method, used in this research, is a semi-structured interview, realized with three respondents. The results of research are specified in particular case studies, containing some sequences of the interviews. The answers to research questions come after.

In the bachelor´s work on the theme World of Values of the Current Teenagers, in the theoretical part, I focused on the general abstract definitions of values, evaluation, value orientation, personal and value developement of the teenagers in the period of pubescence and adolescence, preference of values and attitudes of the current teenagers and how value system influences their appearance, image. The connection of contemporary groups {--} subculture, the influence on the teenagers. In the practical part by the method of questionnaire, I focused on the assessment of the value preference of the current teenagers and how values influence their general appearance and how the general appearance influences the individual subcultures of the teenagers.

The aim of this work is to focus on using a questionnaire survey on the value orientation of youth and find out what values present youth prefers. The theoretical part of the work aims to explain individual key concepts. Closer to the views of different experts who have dealt with this topic. The practical part is focused on the evaluation of the collected data and description of the results. The questionnaire has task to find out what values the young people recognize, what considers in life of the most important and which pathologies of the community most condemns. Continue should reveal, if the young people have some views and in the case that they have, so what. The research will be also focus on the development of values with consideration of the age, the differences between boys and girls and disparity in values rising due to another place of residence and another social strata.

Annotation This graduation thesis discourse about value orientation of adolescentes at present time. The thesis consists of theoretical and practical sections. 1. Theoretical part appers from present-day knowledge of pubescence and adolescentes and it explains the terms such as pubescence, adolescence, social progress, emocionality, identity, value tendencies and selfconception. The thesis describes time of adolescente and sociable and psychological characteristics of these young people. You can find information about system of secondary school at present-day. The last part of theoretical sections aims on comparing determinantes of personal progress and on their influence on progress of value our teenagers. 2. The practical part interprets results of research, which was realized on two secondary school in last year-class. The purpose of the research was to find out value tendencies of adolescentes at present time and show personal values of these young people. The results of research are presented not only collectively but also like results for gender groups. This point of view is important for comparing tendencies of values among young girls and boys.

My Bachelor Thesis deals with a subject of mental hygiene in the Czech Republic. The theoretic part focuses on actual health knowledge as a complex, and also its particular parts and influences which take effect on people. In the following it briefly characterizes psychological description of a group of adolescents. The practical part contains methodical mental hygiene educating plan created for secondary school students. Formation the programme as well as its results come from diagnostic methods - interventional method, questioning, observation, projective technique. The programme is based on 10 meetings and its result shows its high benefits even from short time education. There was students{\crq} expressive turnover in the way of self evaluation. They also rebuilt their values, expanded their knowledge and interpersonal relations acquirements and they got to know new options of active exercises.

The intention of this dissertation is a special investigation of a new innovative approach to reduce the weight of pubescent and adolescent people with overweight and fatness by creating positive changes in self-control and self-respect using an interventional active programme. The goal is to determine a method to reduce the overweight and describe the correlations of psychic conditions and social risks of the overweight and fatness of pubescent and adolescent people. The basis of the programme is several techniques of yoga and yoga configuration. The investigation observed 224 participants and the interventional programme was undertaken by 133 participant of the age of pubescence and adolescence. The programme was applied for twelve weeks. After finishing the interventional active programme, the body weight and BMI were reduced and positive significant changes were reached in shortage of hypodermic fat and decrease in depressive states and anxiety of the participants of the programme. Generally, the anthropometric measurements were implemented in case of 1136 participants. The established hypothesises have confirmed the right supposition of the effect of the interventional active programme. The ascertained data were processed statically and evaluated in collaboration with the Gartner{\crq}s Biomedical Laboratory of CTU Prague.

The Bachelor project watches and maps out sports clubs for children older than 11 years in České Budějovice, which can be attended in leisure time. Aim of the project is to find out basic information about the sports clubs (data about operation, activity, structure, base for members, background) and make it accessible to general public on websites. Basic method for data collection is using questionnaires. In the project I have also took advantage of statistics of south Bohemian association ČSTV. 29 people replied. There are 24 sports clubs involved in the project, which devote to children aged 11 years above. The overview is accessible at http://bcsp.ic.cz

This work has got theoretical character and focuses on the survey of social services for the youth in Týn nad Vltavou and in the surroundings. It is further engaged in young people´s adolescent problems and in their mental and physical changes. Next it deals with possibilities of social service providers and how the youth spend their leasure time in public and non-public organisations.

The thesis deals with the understanding of metaphors and symbols by children of older school age, i.e. the period of adolescence. Subsequently it turns to the conception of metaphors and symbols in individual areas of human life and thinking. It is concerned with the area of aesthetics, in particular with art, drama, music and literature. Further, it studies the conception of metaphors and symbols in philosophy, sociology, psychology (especially social and depth psychology), religion and bible studies. The practical part sums up the findings introduced in the theoretical part and infers from them the consequences for the religious pedagogy and didactics of symbol focused on the older school age. In the final part, several exemplary teaching lessons are outlined, which correspond to the introduced theoretical and practical pedagogical findings and which aim at helping the adolescents to disclose the world of metaphors and symbols not only in religious sphere.