| Abstract [eng] |
Master's thesis analyzes the role of spiritual education in the rehabilitation process of people with addictions. The thesis discusses the concept of spiritual education and its importance in personality development, it also describes the negative impacts of people with addiction behaviour on their personal lives and analyzes the importance of spiritual education in the addiction recovery community. By using the unstructured interview method, according to the holistic approach to personality, the qualitative research was carried out in the psychosocial rehabilitation community centre of people with addictions named „AGAPAO“, located in Šiauliai district. The aim of the research was to examine the spiritual education impact on the rehabilitation process of people with addictions. In the course of selected problem study, 15 males undergoing the rehabilitation program were interviewed. The data was processed using the content analysis method. According to the research results, spirituality more or less implicates transcendental experiences in every case and despite the fact that people name different sources of such kind of experience and differently highlights the aspects of this concept, the essential values of spirituality are the same: truth, good, beauty, freedom, creation and love – all these things that have been eternal for centuries and are not restrained by time or space. Human nature is unique - it has three main components: physical, mental and spiritual as a whole. Spiritual education promotes spiritual experiences that build the systems of values, which brings a harmony into a person’s life and gives the meaning of life as a consequence. The low capability of people with addictions to cope with psychological difficulties leads them to the illusion-based perception of life when the only way to achieve psycho-physiological comfort is with the help of drug and alcohol abuse (the object of addiction). In the social context, these people have the problem of self-actualization and tend to live in the conditions of social vacuum. Also, they experience spiritual vacuity as they have not evoked their spring of spirit. Meantime, the community-based participation of people with addictions in the rehabilitation process promotes spiritual activity and encourages participants to think of higher values of life and also to revive spiritually while experiencing the real worth of breaking free from addiction. This sense of freedom is associated with taking the responsibility for meaningful decisions about their future life. In conclusion, the research revealed that spiritual life of the spiritually based rehabilitation program participants becomes the foundation that helps to overcome the integration problems 80into the society and into the label market for people with addictions. Also, the support from other program participants and the support from the Church community are the key factors that help to shape the right values of life which predetermine further full participation in public life. Such social activity ensures the meaningful existential being. |
