Drop out for clients with addiction has an adverse effect on their abstinence - the probability of relapse is very high (Kalina, 2003). By contrast, treatment completion is associated with abstinence, lower criminal activity, fewer relapses and a higher employment rate (Brorson et al., 2013). For effective addiction treatment is crucial to minimize the number of drop outs. Risk factors appear not only on the client side, but also on the side of the service. The study focused on clients who planned to drop out, but at last they decided to stay. Anamnestic data and interviews with clients helped to identify common client traits and answer the questions about the client thinking process during the crisis, what they emphasize, how they evaluate their decision not to drop out and what motivational influences they identify. Frequent common traits of clients who overcame drop out tendencies were a higher age (90 %), criminal record (74 %), contact with psychiatry (84 %) and repeated addiction treatment (74 %). Interpersonal conflicts with staff and clients (50 %) and craving (22 %) were the most frequent reasons to drop out. Nearly 2/3 of clients appreciated the improved mental and physical health. The support from the others was the main reason for retention in treatment (31 % from relatives, 26 % from...

The aim of this master's thesis, "Utilizing an interactive whiteboard to learn verbs in German lesson" is presented in two parts. The theoretical part is devoted to aspects which influence teaching, and therefore the preparation of interactive materials. The practical part is focused on the proposal of activities used on the interactive whiteboard. The theoretical part is divided into three chapters. The first chapter allows us to view the educative process from a psychological perspective, attempting to clarify the importance of relevant styles and strategies used effectively while learning a foreign language. The concern of chapter two is an interactive board and multimedia. Principles which should be followed by educators who are creating teaching materials are also introduced. Furthermore, there are presented internet portals which can be used in German lessons. The last chapter of the theoretical part is dedicated to grammar and the grammatical category - verbs. The practical part is predominantly based on creating your own teaching materials, which are designed to practise German verbs. The activities are split up into two sections (for elementary school and high school). An evaluation of the teaching materials results from survey. They were verified in the educational practice.

This diploma thesis deals with the use of music and songs in teaching English as foreign language at B1 level. Its aims are the analysis of the song activities presented in various sources, creating the song activities, their pilotage in the classroom and subsequent evaluation. It is divided into five chapters. The theoretical part deals with listening comprehension as a skill, its relation to other skills, its definitions, reasons for teaching listening comprehension, its principles, approaches towards teaching listening comprehension and sources of listening comprehension activities. Furthermore, the development of language skills at intermediate level is presented and the essential parts introduces reasons for using songs in the development of listening comprehension skills, alternative use of music and songs and classification of song activities. The practical part covers the analysis of the song activities presented in three different course books at intermediate level and their comparison with the song activities presented in other sources. The research examines the application of the chosen song activities in practice and students' perception of them. . Key words: Listening comprehension skill, song activities, motivation, listening to songs, lyrics

This paper titled "Evaluation of the lower secondary education students and its influence on learning motivation" is focused on the most frequently used methods of evaluation at today's schools. It considers not only evaluation methods complying with students but also relation between evaluation and learning motivation. It includes an analysis of current situation of students' self-evaluation. The whole paper is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part. The theoretical part portrays the core essence and the importance of the evaluation, its principles and qualities. It describes some important concepts, such as a pedagogical evaluation and its legal framework. It identifies function and techniques of the evaluation from the school legislation point of view and at the same time it illustrates the current tendencies in its development. It maps some types, forms and evaluation function. It explains in more details motivational function of evaluation as well as self-evaluation. The empirical part deals with a detailed research which is dedicated to exploration of the most frequently used pedagogical evaluation methods at the chosen schools. Simultaneously, it investigates which evaluation methods are preferred by students themselves and whether evaluation somehow impacts their motivation level...

OF THE THESIS Name: Bc. Lucie Fafejtová Specialization: Addictology Head of the thesis: PaedDr. Martina Richterová - Těmínová Opponent: Doc. MUDr. PhDr. Kamil Kalina, CSc. Pages: 118 The name of the thesis: BARRIERS IN EARLY ONSET OF DRUG USERS INTO THE TREATMENT Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to analyze the barriers to early onset of treatment for drug users and not just the first one, but also with other runs. The theoretical part focuses on the possible barriers for starting the treatment, and the factors that are important for change, treat and restoration of the client. It is mainly the individuality of clients (age, his fears, anxiety, lack of confidence and motivation for treatment); drug world, in which the client lives and his drug career; health of the client (including psychopathological complications), social background (regarding the criminal background and his relationship with the others and family) and also factors on the medical company side or treatment program. In the practical part I am focused on qualitative research of three focus groups, where the groups are divided by age to youth, adults and older clients. Focus of these groups is the existence of barriers for drug users to appear in time to treatment. The aim of this research is to compare these three focus groups and...

Title: Selected motivational aspects for beginners and advanced in karate Aim: The main aim of my thesis was to learn how the current poor popularity of karate sport influences students of elementary and secondary schools in Prague and its surroundings and their motivation in this sport for achievements and at the same time to suggest how to furthermore support and expand motivation with these students. Methods: To gain information and data for this thesis I used survey methods and its specially designed questionnaire. Further additional interviews were used with advanced karate students with the highest ambitions and with former Czech Republic karate representatives (2006-2013) and compared with motivational aspect with these two different generations of athletes. There was second specially designed questionnaire for these additional interviews with a possibility for free answers. Results: Through the survey the differences in motivational aspects at beginners and advanced in karate were found and with additional interviews differences were found in ambitions and motivational aspects among former Czech Republic karate representatives and current advanced students with high ambitions in karate. Manager suggestions for motivation expansion with beginners and advanced karate people were also...

Background: Gambling games are evolving areas of pathological behavior, which, moreover, thanks to technological progress, take other forms. Not only in the context of the modern technologies are emerging young people engaged in gambling, who may represent a latent risk across the entire company. Aims: The main objective of the study is to trace the use of qualitative research methods motivation of young players to participate in a gambling game. A related goal is to identify the primary impulse for the first gambling game, subjectively perceived gains and losses from the game, the development of a hazardous and comparison of the motives of the young men with varying degrees of problem gambling game. Methods: Respondents were collecting method using snowballs. Subsequently, the semistructured interviews were made with them. Further was all participants presented the record sheet showing the socio-demographic differences, and a questionnaire SOGS to determine the extent of the problem with the gambling game. Research file: File the research consists of a total of 10 male respondents aged from 18 to 26 years old. The average age is 23,1 years (the youngest 18, the oldest 26 years). The most participants have secondary education, while half of the respondents currently studying and less than half are...

The main objective of the thesis was to explore the phenomenon of fashion blogs. Not in terms of their marketing or journalistic function as it was originally intended, but in a way of an examination of the position of the blog author. We focused on the reasons for the motivation of the authors of the blog leading them to continue their work. The first chapter outlined the process of creation of the blog and the development of the blog in general. Based on research of the literature related to the fashion and media, the development of the fashion blog in the Czech Republic was described. The second chapter studied theoretical preview on blogs, which showed the strong relationship between media and blogging, defined marketing influence in the blogging and described product placement. At the same time we have shown from a theoretical point of view, based on the literature sources, the importance for the authors of the blogs of building social capital by blogging. This fact was analysed in the research part of the thesis when the individual answers of the Czech bloggers were presented. The research part of the thesis compared the theory with the practice based on conclusions of the Czech discourse on fashion. This was achieved by analysing of the interviews with leading domestic bloggers. Using qualitative...

The main objective of this master thesis is to discuss the phenomenon of fashion blogs and exploring its features and benefits for the Czech discourse about fashion. The evolution of blogging as a technological phenomenon with mass expansion of the internet and its development is mapped by researching respective literature that deals with fashion and its communication in the media, besides that there is also explored the nature of blogs and their place among traditional media such as print, television or radio. The research would not be complete without proper examination of the motivation that leads to the formation of blogs and of course results of such blogging that can be considered successful. Given that the fashion industry is built on communication of trends and subsequent sales of products that can be described as fashionable, the work aims to deal with the transformation in use of media for this purpose. Following that there is then examined the relationship between blogging and journalism, respectively fashion magazines and the nature of advertising, which is inevitably included in the fashion industry. The research part then verifies conclusions made based on theory in practice of the Czech discourse about fashion, which is achieved by analysis of interviews with leading domestic...

The objective of this diploma work, entitled as "The motivation and stabilisation of public administration employees" is to describe the specific status of public administration employees and its comparison to the status of private sector employees. This work also refers to impending personal crisis in public administration bodies, which could occur as a result of high job-switching between young and qualified employees. The objective of this work is therefore also an explanation of mentioned phenomenon as well as outline of possible solutions of this fluctuation tendency. The work emphasises the importance of motivation in public sector and analyses and evaluates the provisions taken with the purpose of an improvement of public administration. The practice of public administration bodies is demonstrated by examples from the environment of Interior Ministry.