The article is focused on the key problems of long-term care provided to disabled seniors above 65 years of their age and disabled children in the Czech Republic from informal carers' point of view. The research is based on 25 semi-structured interviews with informal carers. The results show a serious shortage of (social and health care) services generally as well as for informal carers alone, shortage of useful information and medical devices. In some cases, insufficient coordinative and informative role of general practitioners and paediatricians is also a problem. The informal carers also criticised poor coordination of medical and social care in the Czech Republic., Dobiášová Karolína, Kotrusová Miriam, Hošťálková Jitka, and Literatura
V předložené kazuistice je zachycena práce rodinného terapeuta s rodinou, kde matka trpí bolestmi zad a dítě (3,5) je chronicky nemocné. Trpí kašlem nejasného původu. Autorka podrobně popisuje průběh šesti sezení, během nichž se v rodině postupně měnila atmosféra. Konflikty, které pár značně zatěžovaly, měly své kořeny v minulosti obou rodin a v mylných nevyslovovaných předpokladech na obou stranách. Narativní terapie s respektem ke struktuře a genderové vyváženosti, kterou se autorka učila v rámci čtyřletého výcviku v institutu rodinné terapie psychosomatických poruch v Liberci, byla zde hlavním nástrojem léčby. Léčba se nemůže zaměřit přímo na symptom dítěte. Jde o symptom celého rodinného systému. Zjednodušeně řečeno, bylo třeba, aby se všichni mohli zase volně nadýchnout., In the presented casuistry there is given a description of a family therapist’s work with a family, where the mother suffers from backache and the child (3.5) is chronically ill suffering from cough of unknown origin. The author describes in detail the course of six sessions, during which the family atmosphere was gradually changing. The conflicts that significantly burdened the couple, had their roots in the past of both families and in wrong untold assumptions on both sides. Narrative therapy with respect to the structure and gender balance, which the author learned in the four-year training in the family therapy institute of psychosomatic disorders in Liberec, was the main tool of treatment. Treatment cannot be directly focused on the child’s symptom. It is a symptom of the whole family system. Basically, it was necessary that everyone could breathe freely again., and Sušická L.