Abstract:

Aftercare or aftercare programmes follow after the treatment of substance dependence in a psychiatric hospital, therapeutic community or specialised department in prison. Clients of these programmes are usually persons with impeded psychosocial development. Often they are graduates of institutional education, persons with criminal record, persons with aggression problems or persons with personality disorder in whom abstinence from the habit-forming drug uncovers therapeutic potential and the underlying cause of the initiation of dependent behaviour.
The following text aims to fulfil three purposes; the first purpose being to create a theoretical outline of aftercare for adults with behavioral problems.The second purpose is to explain the education part of aftercare programmes. The third purpose comprises of presenting and comparing research regarding the explored subject. Most of the research presented in the paper was undertaken at the Institute of Special Education Studies at the Palacky University’s Faculty of Education.

Keywords:

Aftercare programmes, psychiatric hospital, therapeutic community, drugs, behavioral problems, education.