This diploma work deals with the causes and typology of life crises. In another part the diploma work focuses on the phenomenon of marital and partner crises, for their solution and prevention of conflicts in relationships. Then we will discuss what possible benefits could be in crisis not only for marriage or partnership, and finally we will mention marriage and partner counseling as a valuable source for help to overcome the crisis in relations with a partner. In the practical part we will try to prove that the crisis in human life can bring to the marriage or partnership such a change, incentive, or motivation, which can be in an interval of time spent by the crisis perceived as positive and beneficial. Keywords: Life crisis, causes and typology of life crises, marriage crisis, partner crisis, marital and partner counseling, positive benefits of a life crisis

A group of hospitalized psychiatric patients and a randomly selected non-therapy group responded to the Schedule of Recent Experiences questionniare. In order to determine the magnitude of life change events for the two groups, Life Change Unit totals were derived for the years 1966 and 1967. To test the hypothesis that patients in psychiatric treatment have experienced a quantitatively significant greater amount of life change than a group of non-therapy subjects, an analysis of variance was used to determine whether there were significant differences between the scores for the two groups. For the year 1966, no significant difference was found between the therapy and non-therapy samples. For the year 1967, there was a significant difference between the mean Life Change Unit scores for the two groups. As a result of these findings, it is concluded that an accumulation of life change events may serve to precipitate mental health change, and that that probability of such health change occurring is significantly greater when there is a clustering of life change events during any given year than when such a clustering does not occur.

In her diploma thesis, the author deals with the Quarter-life crisis and the experience that Czech Millenials have with this phenomenon. Given that Quarter-life crisis is a relatively new concept that has not yet been greatly explored by academics, the author devotes a part of the thesis to a detailed account of the knowledge on this phenomenon that is currently available, with a considerable part coming from popular psychology and popular science books. The theoretical part of the thesis further describes the social change that enabled the emergence of a new period in psychological development - the "emerging adulthood" and the associated Quarter-life crisis, its development as a concept and academic recognition. The work further describes the generation of Millenialls currently associated with this crisis and their characteristics making them susceptible to experience this crisis. The practical part is a qualitative research on the experiences of Czech Millenials, who are going through or have gone through this crisis. The research results are analysed with an consideration of the specifics of the Czech environment and unique factors that can influence the experience with this phenomenon.

This thesis is based on the theoretical research using scientific texts. Method of reasoning (deduction) were compared ideas of the individual authors who deal with description of contemporary (postmodern ) society, exploring the question of the sense of life and represent a difficult life events that can cause the threat or loss. The work is divided into three chapters, each of which contains sub -chapters. The first part refers to a person in postmodern society. There is a characterization of contemporary society, the challenges of the new era, gain new requirements on the man and related problems. The second chapter is building on the issues of the first chapter. Some fragments which describe the particular challenges of life events and their impact on the man, the sense of living in certain periods of life. There were used mainly idea sof psychotherapists who are dedicated to working with people in a state of crisis. Following the previous chapters, the last part of the thesis deals with the question of the free time, defining the category of the free-time and pointing out its importance for contemporary man. Emphasis was placed on the free-time pedagogy using appropriate free-time activities as a tool for finding richer and more meaningful human life in certain difficult life events that brings the requirement of a new era. Last but not least, there was to explain the context of the free-time and religion.