Title: Analysis of the intervention of the Mountain Service in the period 2013-2018. Objectives: The aim of the diploma thesis is to analyze the intervention of the Mountain Service of the Czech Republic in the period 2013-2018 and its statistical expression. Furthermore, the work aims to summarize the history, location and activities of the Mountain Service. Methods: The diploma thesis uses methods of content analysis and methods of data collection from available sources and materials, the method of descriptive statistics and subsequent comparison of data. The obtained data are presented through tables and graphs, which are described in detail and evaluated. Results: The result of the work is a summary description of the Mountain Service of the Czech Republic from its inception to the present, its operation and legislative authority. The mountain areas where the Mountain Service of the Czech Republic operates are also described. Numerical data of all interventions of the Mountain Service of the Czech Republic for the period 2013-2018 are written here and evaluated. These data are supported by clear tables with the exact number of interventions and supported by graphs for better evaluation. Keywords: Analysis, intervention, service, period, help

Background: Men around the world seek help to a lesser extent than women for mental health problems. Standards have demonstrated themselves negative in how men seek help for their mental problems, as they are usually associated as female problems. Men tend to minimize their mental illnessin fear of becoming stigmatized. The stigma can affect men's social life and aggravate their mental illness. Aim: The aim of the literature study was to describe how masculinity norms affect men’s help seeking when suffering from mental health issues. Method: A qualitative literature review based on 15 qualitative articles analyzed with a thematic analysis. Results: Five themes were identified; Mens obligations, Stigma to seek help for mental illness, Prejudice against mental illness, Lacking knowledge about mental illness, Lacking confidence to the healthcare. Conclusion: Norms affect men’s help seeking for mental health problems from several different angles. They can be enforced by the men themselves or by the community. Through knowledge of which thenorms are and how they are enforced, can they be changed.

The diploma thesis "Influence of state policy on cooperatives in the Czech Republic after 1989" examines the most significant changes that occurred in the evolution of cooperative ideas in Czechoslovakia, respectively Czech Republic after the revolution in 1989. It is solved the question of denial of cooperative principle, or mixing it with other forms of human activity. The work examines the phenomenon after 1989. It does so particularly in relation to institutional change and general context. It uses the particular methods of institutional analysis and discourse analysis. Work takes into account the main socio-political currents and paradigms that while legislative changes and changes in the concept of the moment was most reflected. Work is interested in neoliberal approach that was in our countries present in the nineties. Neoliberal approach is still actual in some of approaches and ideas. Following this is transferred to the applicable standards. This happens in the context of institutional transformation throughout society. At diploma it is important to compare the ideas and principles of cooperatives with the neoliberal approach. It tested the coexistence of neoliberal ideology and cooperatives.

Stigma surrounding substance use has been documented as a roadblock to recovery, posing a greater barrier to care for some populations more than others. In particular, pregnant and parenting women are an often overlooked and understudied demographic who could benefit considerably from targeted resources. Though, due to stigma surrounding substance use and motherhood, this demographic is routinely subject to judgement and discrimination resulting in delayed treatment entry. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, issues of access have been compounded by a reduction in services despite heightened mental health struggles caused by prolonged periods of isolation and abrupt changes in lifestyle and environment. The purpose of this study is to understand how stigmatization affects help-seeking behaviour and to explore the impact of COVID-19 on women’s mental health and treatment experiences. Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted from October 2020-February 2021, with current and past clients of integrated treatment programs in Ontario (n=24). Using an interpretive description approach, data was constructed to identify how stigma is internalized, anticipated, and embodied in the context of help-seeking behaviour, as well as to determine the extent to which the pandemic has interfered with maternal wellbeing. The following themes emerged: (1) stigma and help-seeking (2) COVID-19 and maternal wellness (3) stigma at the structural level: barriers to care and (4) mitigating stigma to enhance help-seeking: facilitating recovery through relationships. This research contributes evidence to a growing body of literature emphasizing the importance of relationships in the recovery process for combatting the effects of stigma and promoting early treatment entry and lends insight into the ways in which pregnant and parenting women with problematic substance use have navigated recovery during COVID-19. / Graduate

A thesis submitted in lulfillment of the requirements for the degree of PHD Community Psychologv in the Department of Psychology University of Zululand, 2001. / There is strong evidence showing the adverse effects of unemployment on social and psychological functioning as well as on physical health. With the present depressed economy, individuals will continue to be vulnerable to the harmful effects of retrenchment and unemployment. Such factors contribute to crime in our country. The South African community psychology movement is an attempt to take psychology to the people and empower communities, particularly historically and economically disadvantaged communities, through improved networking, education, health, social welfare and development projects which optimize local resources, resolve problems of the apartheid years and improve relationships within and between communities. A qualitative participatory action research approach to empowerment was utilized in this thesis. Mutual aid groups proved to be a successful empowering methodology to unemployed people in their own communities and their contexts. The contention of the present study is that qualitative research, with its value emphasis on capturing the diversity of respondents" experiences, its attention to the context of researched phenomena and its capacity to document the voices of historically marginalized communities, greatly facilitated the realization of these core values in our work with communities. The main finding in this study is that research and practice both benefit from a narrative approach that links process to practice and attends to the voices of the people of interest. Narrative theory an^ methods tend to open the field to a more inclusive attitude as to the data and to cross disciplinary insights as well as community collaboration. From the present study it becomes clear that culture tends to prescribe certain ways of acting which can be referred to as prescribed stories. The narrative approach used here does not claim that culturally prescribed stories are either good or bad, nor does it take a moral or evaluative position on the dominant narratives in communities Mutual aid group methods are found to be appropriate for those conducting action research and those concerned to "empower' research participants because the participants become an active part of the process of analysis. Group participants may actually develop particular perspectives as a consequence of talking with other people who have similar experiences. / The National Research Foundation

Many individuals do not seek help for a mental health problem due to stigma and fear of rejection by peers and family. Researchers have highlighted that the age group least likely to seek help is youth. Stigma acts as an important barrier to help-seeking. Evidence indicating how mental health literacy can reduce stigma and encourage help-seeking remains inconclusive. In this study, the health belief model was used to understand how college students perceived an individual's susceptibility to mental illness and the barriers associated with seeking help. A posttest-only randomized controlled trial evaluated the impact of the Is It Just Me? mental health literacy program among college students and assessed whether the program was effective in generating changes in knowledge, lessening stigma, and encouraging help-seeking intentions should students experience a mental health problem. Gender and age data were collected for background information. The results of 2-tailed t tests showed less stigma p = .047, t = -2.02 in the experimental (M= 18.30, SD (2.21) compared to the control condition (M 17.02, SD (3.78)), with no effect on knowledge. With respect to help-seeking intentions, the control condition scored significantly higher than the experimental condition. In conclusion, college students who participated in this short-term mental health literacy program reported less stigma but also less help-seeking. Thus, the program contributed to a greater understanding and acceptance of people living with mental illness. Breaking down stigma and encouraging early intervention for students to seek help if they experience mental health problems can lead to better recovery outcomes and healthier trajectories.

In combat, anger becomes a new baseline and is promoted by peers as an acceptable means of militaristic motivation and coping with the atrocities of war. Unable to reconcile anger upon returning home, some veterans are forced to seek help via nontraditional paths. This interpretative phenomenological study explored the lived experience of male combat veterans who struggled with anger dysregulation issues and sought help from veteran peers on social media. Research questions were developed using the modal model of emotion as a guide for emotional dysregulation. Interviewed participants were invited to share lived experience of anger dysregulation, what help-seeking meant, and how they experienced using social media for management of anger dysregulation. Ten male combat veterans were recruited through snowballing and social media, they were interviewed via Skype. The results of the analyses revealed 7 major themes: emotional distress, shifting identity, reprisal, resistance to formal treatment, emotional reconciliation, social media use, and combat elitism. Participants shared beliefs that current support systems for anger dysregulation were neither fairly implemented nor effective for anger. Further revealed was that social media afforded veterans the opportunity to take advantage of anonymity, engage on their terms, rapidly target peers with similar combat and subsequent anger dysregulation experience, and learn how to rethink and reappraise to reconcile anger. This study contributes to an enhanced scholarly understanding of veterans'€™ nonconventional help-seeking approaches for anger dysregulation. Recommendations are provided to practitioners to support, promote, and be a voice for the voiceless to effect social change by advocating for and defending those who have defended the nation.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Atypical symptoms, multiple co-morbidities and a lack of public awareness make it difficult for older adults to know when to seek help for sepsis. Diagnosis delays contribute to older adults’ higher sepsis mortality rates. This research describes patients’ and caregivers’ experiences with the symptom appraisal process, self-management strategies, provider-nurse-patient interactions, and barriers when seeking sepsis care. Convenience and purposive stratified sampling were utilized on two data sources. A nurse-patient and nurse-family caregivers were interviewed. Online stories by older adult patient survivors or family members from the Faces of Sepsis ™ Sepsis Alliance website were analyzed. Emergent themes were identified using qualitative descriptive methods. Listlessness and fatigue were most bothersome symptoms for the nurse-family caregivers. Fever, pain and low blood pressure were most common complaints, followed by breathing difficulty, mental status changes and weakness. Patients expressed “excruciating pain” with abdominal and soft tissue sources of infection, and with post-operative sepsis. Concern was expressed that self-management strategies and medications create barriers by masking typical sepsis signs. Health care providers’ interpersonal interactions, lack of awareness of sepsis symptoms and guidelines, complacency towards older adults, and denial by patients were barriers. Further barriers were staff inexperience, delays, care omissions, and tension between health care providers, patients and caregivers—with emerging advocacy by patients and family. In conclusion, providers should assess previous self-management strategies when evaluating symptoms. At primary care visits or hospital discharge, older patients with risk factors need anticipatory guidance for sepsis symptoms and possible emergent infections--specifically patients with pre-existing risk factors such as urinary tract infections, pneumonia, or operative events. Public and professional education are needed to overcome a lack of urgency and understanding of symptoms for diagnosis, treatment and guideline adherence for inpatients and outpatient clinics. Further research on subjective sepsis symptoms may improve patient-clinician communications when evaluating sepsis in older adults.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture; and, (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1982. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-208). / Housing low-income groups, who cannot afford even the most minimal shelter, remains a dominant issue in most developing countries. However, all the solutions advanced so far depend on large investments, either by the Government or by the individuals concerned, which neither of them can afford. This thesis examines squatter settlements in Aurangi, Karachi (Pakistan) and identifies issues related to housing and the policies currently being implemented. The results of that investigation indicate that housing the low-income, given the economy and housing policies in most developing countries, can most effectively be realized by encouraging self-help methods. before self-help methods. can be realized construction techniques have to be simplified. This thesis proposes an alternate construction method which promises to simplify some of the building tasks in construction of low-rise dwellings, and hopes to reduce the overall material costs in construction. This method relies on using fabrics as formwork in construction. This formwork is used in making walls, beams, and domes. A cost comparison is made with the current construction techniques in the country and the proposed building strategy is found to be highly competitive. / by Javed Sultan. / M.S.

AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Aubrey A. Huber, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Speech Communication, presented on March 29, 2013 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: HELP AS COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICE: A CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF A TEACHER EDUCATION CLASSROOM MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Nathan P. Stucky As a scholar studying critical communication pedagogy, I am interested in the ways help is produced in communication by future educators. I take Stewart's (1995) claim seriously that words are not merely representational, but instead produce reality. Working from this paradigm, I examined help-producing communication and its implications to theorize help and generate strategies to improve help practices, specifically between teachers and students. To collect data for this project I conducted an ethnography of the teacher education course, "Schooling in a Diverse Society," EDUC311. I was interested in future teacher discourse because teaching often is articulated as a helping profession. For example, a common argument from my research was that to teach is to help students learn content, skills, and particular worldviews. Schein (2009) argues that help is a process that cannot be easily explained. He asserts, "Helping is a common yet complex process. It is an attitude, a set of behaviors, a skill and an essential component of social life" (p. 144). However, very little work has been done to theorize or analyze the implications of help, particularly in terms of communication and educational contexts. In this dissertation, I examined how future teachers articulate and produce help in and through communication. In my experience as a former teacher education student, I found that the help articulated in teacher education classes, that focus on democracy and social justice was remarkably different than the help articulated in everyday experience. Hunt (1998) resolves, "A focus on teaching for social justice reminds us that our children need not only a firm grounding in academics but also practice in how to use those academics to promote a democratic society in which all get to participate fully" (p. xiii). Social justice educators recognize students have the ability to enact change. They recognize inequity and actively work with their students to understand their subject positions in order to work against systems of oppression. In social justice education, help is a process "with" students instead of "help for" students. EDUC311 explores the relationship between social justice and democracy. As a required course for all teacher education students at Southern Illinois University, this course provided me with an ideal population of future educators. By studying the communication of future educators in a course that emphasizes social justice, I analyzed the ways they produced notions of help, generated a definition of social justice-oriented help, and provided strategies that current and future educators could use to better help their students.