How Czech supervisors engage in the supervisory process on sexual attraction and strategies used to supervise sexual attraction in the work of supervisees

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Kolařík ◽  
Martin Lečbych ◽  
Maria Luca ◽  
Desa Markovic ◽  
Martina Fülepová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Sexual Attraction ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Supervision Process ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Supervisory Process

Abstract Our study investigated how Czech supervisors understand, engage with and supervise therapists in handling sexual attraction. Qualitative interviews were carried out with 13 volunteers in the Czech Republic. Transcripts were analysed using constructivist grounded theory (GT). Findings show that in reflecting on their experience as supervisors, participants stepped into their experience as therapists first. Data shows various factors mediating and influencing the supervision process: the historical and political impact of sexual tabooism and sexual attraction in training and practice; supervisors’ personal experience of sexual attraction provoked shame; gender and trust impact on which supervisor to choose; male and female differences in supervisory needs; and a clear contract facilitates disclosure of sexual attraction.

scholarly journals When Evidence is not Taken for Granted: The Use and Perception of “Evidence” in the Czech Republic Ministries

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnošt Veselý ◽  
František Ochrana ◽  
Martin Nekola
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Large N ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract The role of evidence in policy-making is one of the most researched topics in public policy and public administration. However, surprisingly little research has been done on how public officials actually use evidence in everyday life practice. Moreover, these studies have been limited to countries that have been influenced by the evidence-based policy movement (EBP). Little is known about how the evidence is conceptualized and utilized in other countries which have not been so strongly influenced by EBP movement. This paper addresses this gap. Using a large-N survey on the Czech ministerial officials and in-depth interviews with them, we explore what is understood under the term of “evidence”, what kind of evidence is used and preferred by public officials and why. In doing so, we use four theoretical perspectives on the use of evidence. We show that despite the long-established tradition of using research in policy-making the importance of research evidence in the Czech Republic is far from being taken for granted. On the contrary, the immediate and personal experience is often preferred over the research findings. The exception to that are census-like statistical data and comparative data published by international organizations. We find some support for the two-communities metaphor, though these communities are not defined by their socio-demographic characteristics, but rather by their internal discourse and understanding of evidence.

scholarly journals Species of the genus Meligethes occurring in oil-seed crop fields in the Czech Republic

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 177-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Tóth ◽  
E. Hrudová ◽  
E. Sapáková ◽  
E. Závadská ◽  
M. Seidenglanz
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
High Resistance ◽  
Laboratory Testing ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Crop Fields ◽  
Field Samples ◽  
The Individual ◽  
South Moravia ◽  
Observation Period

Identification of Meligethes species and their frequencies in adult samples collected at different localities in Central and South Moravia (Czech Republic, 2009–2011) was based on comparisons of morphometric and colour characters and on differences in male and female genitalia. M. aeneus, M. viridescens, M. subaeneus, M. atratus, and M. coracinus were recorded throughout the observation period, while M. nigrescens was recorded just in 2009 and 2011, M. carinulatus and M. maurus in 2010 and 2011. M. aeneus was the most frequent species of all compared samples (2009–2011). Of the accompanying species, M. subaeneus and M. viridescens were markedly more frequent in this study. Considering high resistance of M. aeneus to esteric pyrethroids, it could be helpful to distinguish among the individual Meligethes species occurring in field samples intended for laboratory testing.  

Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield as a Part of Knowledge Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 276-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Skalický ◽  
Tibor Palasiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Current State

Abstract The aim of this article is to introduce an approach to intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB) as a part of knowledge development in conditions of the Army of the Czech Republic (ACR). Numerous of NATO publications and Stanags has been analyzed as well as Czech national documents. Based on results of the analyses and personal experience of authors, the current state of IPB applied in ACR has been outlined and main imperfections of this process have been emphasized such as a disregard of dynamic changes of terrain in time and so on. It the closing section of the article a few possible ways of IPB development have been suggested. Those suggestions show possible form of this process for needs in 21st century.

Britain and Munich Reconsidered: A Personal Historical Journey

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Racial Equality ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The World ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Big Four

This chapter reflects on the connection between Czechoslovakia and Britain by commenting on the Munich agreement. It takes two exemplars from personal experience: the author's tutor A. J. P. Taylor and his own work as author of the first British account of Munich. Taylor realized that ‘Munich’ was the last time in which Europe seemed the centre of the world. The ‘Big Four’ — Britain, France, Italy, and Germany — genuinely supposed that the peace and security of the world depended on them. Today, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, each of them securely but separately integrated, though not without some continuing issues of ethnicity, may be looking with considerable incomprehension at a complicated Britain which has to wrestle with problems of racial equality, cultural space, religious pluralism, and linguistic diversity that are arguably of even greater complexity than existed in inter-war Czechoslovakia.

scholarly journals Specific Unemployment in the Czech Republic in Regional Comparison

Geografie ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 278-295
Author(s):  
Jiří Tomeš
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Young People ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
General Transformation ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Regional Comparison ◽  
Changing Patterns

The paper examines the unemployment rate in the Czech Republic - a remarkable aspect of general transformation in the Czech Republic. From the structural standpoint, the unemployment remains very low. Using the method of regional comparison the author shows regional disparities and changing patterns of male and female unemployment, unemployment of young people (under 25), long-term unemployment and unemployment by educational level.

The Wild 1990s: “Transformation Nostalgia” Among the Czech Student Generation of 1989

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-134
Author(s):  
Veronika Pehe
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
The Political ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Velvet Revolution ◽  
Democratic Transformation ◽  
Positive Memories

Based on an oral history project that interviewed one hundred former Czech students active during the “Velvet Revolution” of 1989, this study investigates a motif that emerged particularly strongly among respondents. Many evinced positive memories of the perceived unrestrained freedom of the 1990s, here termed “transformation nostalgia.” The study traces the object of positive memories expressed by narrators in the context of their awareness of the increasingly critical public reception of the post-socialist democratic transformation in the Czech Republic and argues they employ two main narrative strategies: extricating their personal experience from wider political developments and performing a form of “self-criticism” in relation to false hopes placed in the political solutions of the time. The article thus aims to contribute to the ongoing process of the historicization of the 1990s and the democratic transformations in the former Eastern Bloc by examining the memories of this decade expressed by members of the generation that came of age and entered adulthood just as the socialist regime collapsed.

scholarly journals Secular Trends of Adult Population and Their Impacts in Industrial Design and Ergonomics

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7565
Author(s):  
Martina Lipoldová ◽  
Miloš Hitka ◽  
Róbert Sedmák ◽  
Branislav Kolena ◽  
Tsolmon Jambal
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Secular Trend ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Secular Trends ◽  
Arithmetic Means ◽  
Female Population ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Czech Population

Significant increase in 25 anthropometric variables of the Slovak and Czech population in time are defined in the paper. A total of 691 respondents from Slovakia and 688 from the Czech Republic were analyzed. Arithmetic means and standard deviations to characterize the anthropometric variables and their variation were defined and compared. Subsequently, quantiles of the selected anthropometric measurements of the adult male and female population in individual countries in the year 2004 and newly determined quantiles in the year 2018 were calculated and compared. Following the results, the fact that secular trend has stabilized and differences in population between individual countries have minimized over the course of the last 14 years can be stated.

European elections expose Czech and Slovak weakness

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Content Type ◽  
European Elections ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Better Than ◽  
The Eu

Significance The political impact of the European Parliament (EP) election is yet to be felt in most of Central Europe (CE), but in Poland, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has responded to his party’s better-than-expected result with a cabinet reshuffle. Well-entrenched governments in Poland and Hungary have reaffirmed their domestic dominance, but in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the results revealed political and fiscal weaknesses. Impacts Right-wing governments in Hungary and Poland will look to build on the political momentum gained domestically from the EP elections. The Czech Republic may experience more political and fiscal instability in the near term. Tensions with the Commission are unlikely to abate soon, despite CE’s greater economic and political integration with the rest of the EU.

Gendered practices of family social workers: The case of the Czech Republic

2020 ◽  
pp. 002087282091167
Author(s):  
Barbora Gřundělová ◽  
Alice Gojová
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Group Interviews

The aim of this article is, through a study of the construction of gender in social work, to identify gendered practices of family social workers in their interactions with clients and to consider the implications of these practices for gendered power relations. Using social constructionism and a critical and interpretive framework, we carried out repeated individual and group interviews, while observing interactions between social workers and parents. A qualitative research strategy was used. Analysis of Constructivist Grounded Theory identified the six gendered practices in interactions with clients.

scholarly journals The darkest place is under the candlestick: Mainstream schools as shadow education providers in the Czech Republic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vít Šťastný
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
School Funding ◽  
Shadow Education ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Academic Track ◽  
Study Programs

Shadow education is a global phenomenon encompassing various forms and types of private supplementary tutoring. Scholarly literature has mainly focused on fee-based tutoring in academic subjects supplied by individual tutors or tutoring companies outside schools. In the Czech Republic, a specific form of shadow education is offered by mainstream schools that provide compulsory education. The focus of this paper is on paid preparatory courses offered by academic-track schools to prepare pupils for entrance examinations to their study programs. It explores principals’ motivations to provide such courses, and associated issues and dilemmas. Its findings are based on a mixed-method research design, and draw mainly from qualitative interviews with principals and other management staff. Findings suggest that in the context of high school autonomy and per-capita school funding, principals perceive this kind of shadow education as a tool to marketize the school and attract more (high-achieving) pupils. Principals sometimes conduct tough negotiations with their schoolteachers about their involvement in the practice, and school shadow education may raise ethical and equity-related issues. The paper contributes to a wider scholarly literature by opening a new and significant branch of shadow education research and points out further research directions in the area of school shadow education.

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