Every person has their own constant forms of experience and ways to deal with life challenges – this is exactly what forms personality. Personality is a comprehensive, unique and relatively permanent set of individual psychological features or moves – personal traits that distinguish you from all other people. The individual combination of these characteristics is called a personality structure. The way we usually deal with life's problems and how we alleviate anxiety, sadness and threats to self-evaluation are also important aspects of personality. Personality disorders are thus a combination of pathological components in personality that are so pronounced that they cause significant disruption in functioning, whether in the individual or in their relationships with others, whereby disorders in emotion, experiencing, response and behavior and problems in interpersonal relationships occur in parallel. If an individual's method of functioning always causes pain both to themselves and to others, if it causes constant tension or is strongly exiting, this may represent a personality disorder.
Users, each with their own pesonal structure, are part of social work and understanding the user's personal structure allows social workers to work with them on a higher level of quality.
Through the diploma thesis I touched the possibility of implementing psychopathological knowledge in the already existing knowledge of social work. I have done so through analysis of theoretical sources. The first part, which consists of the fields of personality and psychopathology, was mostly drawn from psychological and psychoanalytic literature. In the second part I tried to systematize and integrate psychopathological knowledge into important concepts of social work and its methods, through which I also wanted to show my view on the possibility of implementing these skills.
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