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This work focuses on family relationships of people, who went through a psychotic episode. The main question is: How the relationships with relatives help to cope with life with mental disease, not only psychotic episode itself, but especially the period after fading the symtoms away? It is looking for an answer in the interviews with people with mental disease, focusing on their relationships before and after breaking out of the illness. It came out the relationships in the primar family are helpful in this new life situation of the respondents, not the partner relationships, as was expected. The first analysis focused on the main developmental phases in lives of the respondents. It was followed by the analysis of interpersonal relationships. Finally, based on the studied literature, there were established the categories of possible reactions of family members to the respondents'disease. These categories were looked for in the interviews.

Diploma thesis "Social Work with People with Schizophrenia" deals with global life - sustaining situation of people who have in some part of their lives the experience with schizophrenia or with some similar disease from the same range. Theoretical part of this work presents basic facts about schizophrenia - about the course of this disease and about the treatment possibilities and also tries to outline - how are the possibilities of "successive care" it means the care which people with schizophrenia can find after their hospitalization after they enter the psychiatric care and start to use medicine and start attending psychotherapy. One of the aims of this thesis is to map how the real possibilities are for the people with schizophrenia after they return after their psychotic episode to "regular" life and try to live normally how to work, start relationships, engage in their hobbies etc.

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met een samenvatting in het Nederlands.

Proefschrift Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. / Auteursnaam op omslag: Wia Timmerman. Met lit.opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

This thesis deals with the differences of selected birth characteristics (birth length, birth weight and Apgar score) in children of mothers treated with antipsychotics during pregnancy from the reference population values. It also compares these parameters depending on the type of medication administered during pregnancy. The first part deals with the theoretical introduction to schizophrenia and also describes the obstetric parameters evaluated for all newborns. The second (practical) part is devoted to the analysis of these parameters of children of mothers with schizophrenia, compared with control group in Prague and mutual comparison of the parameters in children of mothers with different medications.

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The issue of dual diagnoses has resonated across many fields for several decades. It has also been proved that the number of methamphetamine users grows dramatically, so does the number of patients hospitalized for "toxic psychosis" or other psychotic disorders. Schizophrenia and related diseases then form the third largest group of psychiatric patients in the Czech Republic. The aim of the research part was to analyze data of patients sample from Havlíčkův Brod Psychiatric Hospital (PNHB), with concurrent diagnoses F20-F25 and F15.x or F19.x and to describe associations between methamphetamine use and outbreak of schizophrenic mental illness. The research sample was obtained by combining method of selection according to criteria, method of intentional selection through institutions and method of total selection. Havlíčkův Brod Psychiatric Hospital provided anonymized data of 108 patients meeting the required criteria. The data were categorized within the content analysis of the medical documentation text, coded in a simple form and recorded in Excel spreadsheet. In the last phase, the data were analyzed by combining the first, the second and the third degree in contingency tables. The number of hospitalized men was more than double compered with women in the observed period. The average age using...