Early Stage Worker in Helping Profession

The presented bachelor thesis deals with helping profession and the first year of practicing the profession, namely the profession of psychologist. The theoretical part explains and defines the basic concepts related to this issue: helping profession; prosocial behavior, specifically altruism and empathy; helping; ethics in a helping profession, competence in the helping profession and supervision. The empirical part of the bachelor thesis is based on a psychology student's journal, which maps her first year of work in a psychiatric hospital. Journal entries were analyzed using the open coding. From the open coding came the following categories: relationship with colleagues, relationship to patients, relationship to the institution and problems the student had to deal with during the practice. The main subject of the study was how is changing student's style of work with patients and her view on the role of helping profession during the first year of practice. Data analysis has shown a certain naivety of the early stage worker in the helping profession and the subsequent transition to a realistic view of the helping profession. The results are always described using this scale, naivety reality