This thesis called "Management of Personal Development" is focused on analysis of the personal development management at one unnamed Moravian manufacturing and trade company focused on creative tasks. The theoretical background deals with defining the elementary terms in this area, lifestyle, career management, mental hygiene, successful manager principles, time management, introspection, and problem solving. In the area of creativity, it approaches the topic in itself, its development, creative abilities and attitudes, and shows a connection between creativity and personal development. It also includes several alternative methods of personal development. The practical part deals with the present state of personal development management and creativity in the company, and on the influence of these factors on the company's operation. This thesis also includes several specific solutions which show several ways of company development.

Our work is focused on the period of the global COVID-19 pandemic at its beginning, specifically in the spring and autumn of 2020. It particularly features the area of Czech educational system. We aim to reflect how the pandemic and the closely related distance education in schools affected teachers' attitude towards the education process and also their mental health. In the theoretical part we aspire to define basic terms, such as the teacher's personality, professional growth, motivation, stress, burn-out syndrome and mental hygiene. In addition, we offer an explanation of the process of distance education. The empirical part was realized via semi-structured interviews with teachers of theoretical subjects on vocational schools who were involved in the educational process during the time when it was forced to be led online. The most troublesome issues were the following: the teachers' inadequate technical skills and low self-confidence related to those, but also the minimal support from the schools' management regarding both the training in usage of on-line tools and the need of care of students', school employees' and parents' mental health. KEYWORDS personality, professional growth, motivation, mental hygiene, burn-out syndrome, COVID-19 pandemic, distance education

This thesis deals with the personal and social development of preschool teachers as one of the possibilities for their further education. The theoretical part describes the current available types of professional competencies of current preschool teachers and focuses on their professional development through personal and social education (PSE). The aim of the empirical part is to create, implement and reflect short-term practical training for kindergarten teachers in selected topics of personal and social education through a form of action research. Selected topics (issue of rules in kindergarten, communication and mental hygiene) came from a questionnaire of interest in education issues of PSE. The aim of the course is skills training and improving of professional competence of teachers in selected areas through self-experience activities. Also the course leads teachers to think about appropriate solutions of problematic educational situations through joint discussion, sharing of professional experiences, reflection and self-reflection of teachers. The secondary purpose is to show the topics from the view of teachers' working with children and to link them with key competencies for preschool education, educational areas and expected outcomes of the national curriculum Framework Educational Program...

This thesis deals with the forms of mental hygiene and their application to crisis hotline workers. In the theoretical part the work focuses on the characteristics and specificities of telephonic crisis intervention. Methods of mental hygiene suitable for crisis hotline workers are presented too. The empirical part focuses on mapping of the forms of mental hygiene, which are provided by crisis hotlines to their workers in the Czech Republic. Individual forms of mental hygiene of crisis hotline workers were also mapped. Crisis hotline workers burnout was investigated in the empirical part of the thesis by the means of CBI - Copenhagen Burnout Inventory. It was also confirmed that greater degree of compliance with selected principles of mental hygiene by cisis hotline workers has the relationship with burnout lower incidence. Hypotheses concerning the relationship between sociodemographic data (sex, age, educational attainment, length of praktice, type of employment in the workplace and beyond) and the rate of burnout were not confirmed. The aim of the thesis was to offer possible ways of how to deal with the stress to crisis hotline workers and how they can optimally use the methods of mental hygiene, which can in practice preventively work against burnout.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:35:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2956.pdf: 2856258 bytes, checksum: 58e8813aa69bf680e656528eee877605 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-12 / In this research we look for to critically reconstitute the paper of the education in the intellectual trajectory of Arthur Ramos. This author carried through an intense work of research and developed practical actions throughout its professional and academic experience. Ramos elaborated a theory of psychoanalysis base and humanist who resulted in an important set of concepts, proposals and social intervention that surpassed the limits of the school to reach the family and the community as a whole, extending in such a way the proper concept of education. The intellectual mentioned one was collaborator of Anísio Teixeira in the reform of public education next to the Department of Education of the Federal District during the administration of mayor Pedro Ernesto Batista in the decade of 1930. As part of the reform of Anísio Teixeira the Service of Ortofrenia and Mental Hygiene commanded by Ramos was installed. The objective to receive the children who were considered as incapable to learn and who presented a misadjusted behavior directed from the public school. It enters the objectives of the present research we can detach: to present Arthur Ramos as an intellectual of its time, involved with the controversies of its time in the interior of the field and thinking about forms of overcoming of the educational and social quandaries of the nation under the prism of the humanism and the democracy; to analyze its pedagogical proposals and of intervention in the school by means of the mental hygiene; to referential the child concept problem and to analyze its workmanship of scientific spreading Spirit Health of the 1939. The reverential theoretician methodology had been used the patrimonialism concepts, of authoritarian modernization, of intellectual field and habitus. The developed research search to use of the analysis of the intellectual production and the practical politics of Arthur Ramos from some documentary sources as published workmanships, periodic and manual assays, scientific articles in of spreading. Everything indicates that the proposals of Arthur Ramos were beyond the historical possibilities of the decades of 1930 and 1940. The work of the alagoano doctor of undeniable pioneers in the field of the applied psychoanalysis and the anthropology to the education was not enough to hinder that its accomplishments were condemned to the intellectual ostracism the one that had been deliver during many decades. The rescue of the thought and the practical one of Ramos is a form to retake the memory intellectual of that historical period especially of the field of the knowledge of the history of the education. / Nesta pesquisa procuramos reconstituir criticamente o papel da educação na trajetória intelectual de Arthur Ramos. Este autor realizou um intenso trabalho de pesquisa e ações práticas desenvolvidas ao longo de sua experiência profissional e acadêmica. Ramos elaborou uma teoria de base psicanalítica e humanista que resultou em um importante conjunto de conceitos, propostas e intervenção social que extrapolou os limites da escola para atingir a família e a comunidade como um todo, ampliando desta forma o próprio conceito de educação. O mencionado intelectual foi colaborador de Anísio Teixeira na reforma do ensino público junto ao Departamento de Educação do Distrito Federal durante a administração do prefeito Pedro Ernesto Batista na década de 1930. Como parte da reforma de Anísio Teixeira foi instalado o Serviço de Ortofrenia e Higiene Mental chefiado por Ramos. O objetivo do serviço era receber as crianças encaminhadas pelas escolas públicas e consideradas como incapazes de aprender e que apresentavam um comportamento desajustado. Entre os objetivos da presente pesquisa podemos destacar: apresentar Arthur Ramos como um intelectual de seu tempo, envolvido com as polêmicas de sua época no interior do campo e pensando em formas de superação dos dilemas educacionais e sociais da nação sob o prisma do humanismo e da democracia; analisar suas propostas pedagógicas e de intervenção na escola por meio da higiene mental; referenciar o conceito de criança problema e analisar sua obra de divulgação científica Saúde do espírito de 1939. Como refenciais teórico-metodológicos foram utilizados os conceitos de patrimonialismo, de modernização autoritária, de campo intelectual e habitus. A pesquisa desenvolvida procura utilizar-se da análise da produção intelectual e da prática política de mencionado intelectual a partir de várias fontes documentais como obras publicadas, ensaios, artigos científicos em periódicos e manuais de divulgação. Tudo indica que as propostas de Arthur Ramos estavam além das possibilidades históricas das décadas de 1930 e 1940. O trabalho do médico alagoano de inegável pioneirismo no campo da psicanálise e da antropologia aplicadas à educação, não foi suficiente para impedir que suas realizações fossem condenadas ao ostracismo intelectual a que estiveram entregues durante muitas décadas. O resgate do pensamento e da prática de Ramos é uma forma de retomar a memória intelectual daquele período histórico especialmente do campo do conhecimento da história da educação.

This diploma thesis deals with the topic of the social worker's mental hygiene in connection with dealing with the psychological stress arisen from their profession in the present day. Thesis contains the detailed depiction of the present day state of the social work profession in the context of the postmodern era. Due to professional sources the work analyses and explains personality particularity of social workers which are important for discharging this profession including the theme of the psychological stress of social workers, and the ways of coping with it are included as well. The main mental hygiene resources are fundamental and "superstructural" (the core of the social work) which are necessary for coping with the psychological stress. The thesis demonstrates the importance of cooperation of the three mainstays that are responsible for promoting and formation of the required position for the mental hygiene in social work - meant for employers, educators, and social workers as well. All these mainstays participate in enhancing the quality of social work. The lack of high-quality and appropriate mental hygiene in this profession thwarts the realization of first-rate social work. However, as this thesis outlines, it depends mainly on the social worker whether he or she can use the potential of the mental hygiene resources effectively or not.

This diploma thesis focuses on the issue of occupational stress and burnout syndrome among psychologists and special pedagogues employed in Educational and Psychological Counselling Centers. The main objective of the thesis was to explore occupational stress and burnout in these helping professions and to identify effective coping strategies and preventive measures. The theoretical part of the thesis is divided into two main sections. The first section defines the concepts of occupational stress and burnout, describes main theoretical model related to these concepts, and examines coping strategies and prevention. The second part focuses on the profession of psychologist and special pedagogues, with a specific focus on occupational health risk typical for these helping professions. The theoretical part of the thesis is concluded with a research review of relevant international and Czech empirical studies. The empirical part of the thesis aimed to explore, via qualitative research, subjective experiences of stress and burnout among psychologists and special pedagogues employed in Educational and Psychological Counselling Centers. Relatedly, the research aimed to identify coping strategies and prevention measures. The data were obtained using semi-structured interviews with 10 participants. The...

[pt] Esta dissertação tem por objetivo pensar sobre a criança escorraçada como criança-problema no ponto de vista de Arthur Ramos e sua relação com a higiene mental, civilização, família e escola. Compreende o período de 1934 a 1939 tempo em que funcionou o Serviço de Ortofrenia e Higiene Mental (S.O.H.M.) do Instituto de Pesquisas Educacionais chefiado pelo médico, a convite de Anísio Teixeira, que era o Diretor do Departamento de Educação da Secretaria Geral de Educação e Cultura do Distrito Federal à época. Tinha como finalidade a organização de trabalhos de cunho preventivo e corretivo, atendendo e tratando os possíveis problemas psíquicos da criança no lar e na escola e suas dificuldades com a aprendizagem, atuando nas escolas públicas do ensino primário do Distrito Federal, mais precisamente, nas Escolas Experimentais. Foram utilizadas fontes documentais como os livros sobre o assunto, os impressos de vulgarização dirigidos aos professores e famílias, todos de autoria de Arthur Ramos, além de reportagens de jornais e revistas de grande circulação no País, inquéritos dirigidos às diretoras e professoras das Escolas Experimentais, correspondências, estudos realizados pelo médico, bem como as fichas de observação comportamental de alunos das referidas Escolas oriundas do S.O.H.M. Este estudo procura responder as seguintes questões: Qual a importância da psicanálise e da higiene mental escolar para a transformação da sociedade brasileira em sociedade civilizada? Quem era a criança escorraçada como criança-problema e como a higiene mental escolar através da psicanálise contribuiu no sentido de tentar modificar o comportamento desajustado e a dificuldade com a aprendizagem apresentados por elas? De que forma a higiene mental escolar buscou orientar família e escola em relação à criança escorraçada? Para efeito de reflexão, tomou-se por base a abordagem histórica desenvolvida através do entrelaçamento da análise dos citados documentos com o conteúdo bibliográfico, em uma perspectiva teórica baseada na concepção de Norbert Elias sobre o processo civilizatório, na visão de Sigmund Freud sobre as relações entre o indivíduo e o que ele denominou a “civilização” e a higiene mental como forma de tratar as neuroses em decorrência da civilização, buscando entender as concepções de Arthur Ramos sobre esses processos. Constatou-se que, para Ramos, a base para que o país fosse civilizado e preparado para o progresso estava no cuidado com a criança através da higiene mental escolar e preceitos da psicanálise, bem como nas orientações dedicadas à família e escola, a fim de esclarecer as consequências nefastas do escorraçamento infantil. / [en] This paper has the purpose of thinking about the rejected child as a problem one according to Arthur Ramos point of view and the relationship with mental hygiene, civilization, family and school. All this was based on the period between 1934 and 1939 which the Ortofrenia and the Mental Hygiene of the Institute of Educational Research worked and was run by the doctor invited by Anísio Teixeira who was the Director of the Education Department of the General Department of Education and Culture of the Federal District at that time. Its aim was the organization of assignments based on prevention and correction, dealing and treating the possible psychic problems of the child at home and at school and his difficulties in learning, acting in the Public Primary Schools of the Federal District, more precisely in the Experimental Schools. Documented sources were used such as books concerning the subject, the leaflets of vulgarization addressed to the teachers and the family, all of them were the authorship of Arthur Ramos, besides the newspaper and magazine articles of great circulation in the country, investigations headed for the directors and teachers of the Experimental Schools, correspondences, studies carried out by the doctor, as well as files based on behavioral observation of the students from the referred schools that came from the S.O.H.M. This study tries to answer the following questions: What s the importance of Psychoanalysis and the School Mental Hygiene for the changing of the Brazilian society into a civilized one? Who was the rejected child considered as a problem one and how the School Mental Hygiene through Psychoanalysis contributed to change the misfit behavior and the difficulty in learning presented by them? How did the School Mental Hygiene contribute to guide the family and the school in relation to the problem child? As a way of reflecting all this, it was taken into consideration a historical approach developed through the conjunction of the analysis of the mentioned documents with the bibliographic content in a theoretical perspective based on Norbert Elias opinion about the civilized process, according to Sigmund Freud about the relationships among the individual and what he called civilization and the mental hygiene as a mean of treating neurosis as a result of the civilization, in order to understand Arthur Ramos concepts of these proceedings. It was noticed that in Ramos opinion, the basis for the country to become civilized and prepared for the progress was centered on the care with the child through School Mental Hygiene and the rules of Psychoanalysis, as well as the orientations dedicated to the family and the school, as to clarify the tragic consequences of a child s rejection.

Focusing on Sweden between 1950 and 1980, this doctoral dissertation analyzes and problematizes the process in which a discourse about neurosis and nervous troubles gradually evolved into a discourse about stress. The thesis aims to show how the medical and general discussion about diffuse or vague symptoms transformed and rearticulated ideas and views on society and man, citizenship, gender roles, and medicine. It shows how the discourse on neuroses tended to locate sickness and deviance in the individual, whereas its subsequent transformation into a discourse on stress located the pathological in an external, societal sphere. A particularly prominent issue in the study concerns the role that gender, and in particular female gender, has played in these discourses, and how the place of the feminine can be understood in relation to stress and neuroses. The dissertation shows that female gender was not central to the discourse on neuroses and stress  during the studied period. On the contrary, gender was subordinated to ideas about man and citizenship within the greater context of society and culture. The dissertation takes its starting point in the Swedish 1950’s, often characterized as the era of ”The Strong Society” or ”The People’s Home”. During this period, the neurosis discourse was fixed and remained unchanged. In practice, neurosis was a diagnosis that provided such symptoms that were otherwise difficult to measure and assess with a theory of origin. Neuroses were believed to principally affect a certain category of individuals, who, due to their constitution or disposition, were held to be particularly susceptible to neurotic sufferings. During the 1960s the belief in The Strong Society and its notion of ideal citizenship began to crumble. It was against this background that the Swedish medical profession started discussing ”stress”. Stress, in contrast, could afflict anyone and everyone, according to “the father of stress” Hans Selye and Swedish stress researchers. Stress was assumed to be a potential cause of ”nervous troubles” and disease, but was never considered to be a disease in itself. The concept of the individual as a citizen now gave way for the notion of the individual as a primarily biological organism. Within the stress discourse in the 1960s, the primacy of the universal normal (male) man was a recurring focal point. In the 1970s, the stress researchers distanced themselves from Selyes’ concept of stress by focusing on individual factors. In the discussion about stress during the 1970s, the ”constitutionally weak” individual of the 1950s and the biological organism of the 1960s blended into a hybrid construction of a unique, biological individual.

<p>This dissertation focuses on the life of Frances MacGregor Ingram, a progressive reformer in Louisville, Kentucky. It follows Ingram’s career in social work at the Neighborhood House settlement and the Progressive reform movements in which she held leadership positions from 1905 to 1939. This project concentrates on Ingram’s involvement in reform movements pertaining to tenement housing, garbage collection management, dance hall regulation, juvenile delinquency, mental hygiene institutions, probation, wholesome recreation, child welfare, child labor, women’s working conditions, unemployment, and Great Depression relief.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Most Progressive Era scholarship concentrates on northern cities and reformers, such as Jane Addams at Hull House. But much of the literature overlooks southern contributions to the settlement house movement and progressive reform as a whole. This dissertation serves three purposes. First it helps fill the gap in scholarship on southern progressivism. Reformers in the urban South were not limited to charity work and prohibition. They engaged in complex and dynamic social reforms. Incredibly diverse in scope, Kentucky’s reform history should be understood in the context of southern society and politics, which impacted which progressive reforms were successful and which were not.</p> <p> </p> <p>Second, it builds on other women’s reform scholars by expanding previous conceptions of the Progressive Era to include the 1930s. By doing so, it provides a better understanding of women’s reform activism. Third, this dissertation provides a more balanced approach by emphasizing the alliances Ingram formed with immigrant communities. With a few exceptions, settlement literature primarily focuses on the movement leaders. Unlike some settlements, Neighborhood House Americanization programs via clubs, recreation, and citizenship classes were negotiated between the settlement and its neighbors. Through the lens of Ingram’s urban reform experience in Kentucky, this dissertation uses gender, class, race, ethnicity, and region to unpack the complicated relationships between reformers like Ingram, working-class immigrants, and male political officials. </p>