Therapeutic community Mýto and its influence on social functioning of clients suffering from mental illnesses, particularly schizophrenia

Bachelor thesis focuses at influence of Therapeutic community Mýto (hereinafter referred to as TK Mýto) on social functioning of clients suffering from mental illnesses, particularly schizophrenia. In its theoretical part the disease schizophrenia is described as well as the cause of the disease, its symptoms and its different types. It also includes description of general functional principles of the therapeutic community, the respective legislative scope and main features. Then the actual depiction of the TK Mýto is presented. The objective of this Bachelor thesis is to compare and evaluate the opinions and attitudes of clients before and after their residence in TK Mýto and with help of this evaluation to find out whether there was any impact in the sphere of social functioning. The objective creates a framework for the practical part of this thesis. It deals with evaluation of opinions and attitudes of clients who successfully completed the whole residence in TK Mýto. Evaluation of social functioning was carried out, particularly in the sphere of housing, in social and health sphere as well as regarding leisure time activities. The clients also did an overall evaluation of their residence in TK Mýto. By the comparism of opinions and attitudes of clients, before and after their residence in TK Mýto, thesis pronounce, that the residence in TK Mýto have positive influence for social functioning of clients, who successfully completed the whole residence