Drug problematics of children and juveniles

Autor	Markéta Blumová
Organisation	Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, Fakulta pedagogická, Katedra psychologie
Year	2013
Research type	bachelor thesis
Annotation	The aim of this work is to determine how relate the primary school pupils to addictive substances and their experiences with drug use. The theoretical part introduces us with the current trends of drug use among children and adolescents, defines drugs, their classification, causes and consequences of drug. It also deals with the emergence of drug addiction, different perspectives on addiction, eg. bio-psycho-socio-spiritual concept of addiction, its types, stages, and last but not least, the specifics of addiction among children and youth. In the practical part, the author processed the results of an anonymous questionnaire, by which she asked respondents relationship and experience with drugs. It has been confirmed her conviction about simple availability of drugs and tolerant approach to their use.
Keywords	children, drugs, youth, addictive substance, addiction
Research type	quantitative
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Obor	AM Pedagogy, education, AN Psychology, AQ Security and health protection
Email	mizerova@kps.zcu.cz
Availability	available in the NRVDM electronic library
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Organisation	Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, Fakulta pedagogická, Katedra psychologie
Possible connection	Children and Youth Ratio in population Number of children and young people Expected numbers of children and young people Number of addressed clients by the Youth Information Centres network International youth cooperation