Education towards providing of crisis intervention in personal assistance

Master thesis is based on long personal experience in position of methodologist and director for provider of personal assistance. In the theoretical part I first of aU describe crisis and crisis interventi on in general. Then I focused on personal assistance and its specifics in the Czech Republic, on personal assistants, who they are, what the conditions for their work are and who the c1ients of personal assistance are. Next part of my thesis deals with crisis that could exist in personal assistance and also with the question by whom and under what conditions can be crisis intervention provided. Then, based on these data, I suggest special crisis intervention seminar for workers in social services. The empiric part of the thesis represents assemble of data about c1ients of personal assistance, personal assistants and crisis events in personal assistance coUected in the last 3 years. The last part of this thesis is completely filled application for accreditation of the proposed course for Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Cz ech Republic