Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2005. / "May, 2005." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 198-218). Online version available on the World Wide Web.

v anglickém jazyce In this thesis called "Perspective Orientation of Girls Situated in Diagnostic Institution" I deal with young people with behavioral disorders. In the first part I am trying to describe the meaning of term adolescence. I tried to describe the main problems of this phase of life and show to reader spectrum or variety of risk and delinquent behavior. I shortly introduced topic of perspective orientation and described function of Diagnostic Institution. In practical part I firstly described methods of research. Partially I used printed documents for part of my research. Second and the main part is based on personal written works of clients themselves. By form of open questions I tried to learn ideas of clients about the future. In the first part of research I tried to understand family background of respondents and socio-economic status of their families. I was also interested in region girls came from. Finally, I was interested in reasons why clients are in Diagnostic Institution. Is it because of drugs or something completely different? In the second part of my research I used technique of interview directly with clients. I tried to analyze and valuate results. I compare my findings with other studies on this subject and find and describe similarities and differences. Besides...