Publication details
Halliwickův koncept jako prostředek odstraňování anxiozity z vodního prostředí osob s tělesným postižením
| Title in English | Halliwick concept as a means of removing anxiety of a watter environments of the people with disability |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Several authors consider swimming a favourite motor activity. For the people with disabilities can swimming pose a swimming therapy. Some children, however, may experience anxious feelings only while imaging the contact with water and therefore, they avoid any swimming courses. Success at overcoming these feelings of fear mostly supports the awareness of ones strength, courage, decisiveness and resourcefulness. The Halliwick Method of teaching swimming is one of the ways of overcoming these problems. The goal of the thesis is to verify the impact of a swimming course including the Halliwick Concept features on subjective experience and personality states in people with physical disability. Partial goals were monitoring of selected psychical states and general aspects of subjective psychical experience and states. In the test group we implemented an intervention swimming programme according to the Halliwick Concept and conducted testing by means of psychodiagnostic methods (SUPSO, SPARO, Personal Inquiry for Swimmers, Personal Inquiry for Instructors). We combined these methods with constant observation and unstructured interview. The acquired data have been progressed via qualitative data analysis. The results indicate positive impact of the Halliwick Swimming Concept on changes of psychical states. In the area of more permanent personality changes the impact was less significant. |