The diploma thesis deals with the cooperation of health and social services in the field of mental health care with regard to the ongoing reform of psychiatric care in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part of this work consists of defining the concept of mental illness, also deals with social and health services in the field of psychiatric care, discusses the reform of psychiatric care and cooperation of services. The empirical part examines what the current situation in the field of cooperation of services looks like, collects suggestions and tools for better functioning of these services and defines the views of direct care workers on the situation. The empirical part is performed by the method of questionnaire survey. The aim of the diploma thesis is to find out what the current situation looks like and what tools would help to better cooperation of these services.

This thesis deals with a multidisciplinary approach to clients suffering from schizophrenia. The main aim is to reflex the multidisciplinary approach to schizophrenic clients, appealing to social work and having respect to ethical principles of participating branches. The work includes chapters that are necessarily coherent to this topic. These are mainly the social work in the context of schizophrenia, specifics of schizophrenia, the structure of the multidisciplinary team, team work and all ethical aspects arising out of team work and individual experts' work. This thesis tries to link up theoretical and practical knowledge, mainly by means of casuistry and practical observations.