adventure therapy, therapeutic community, client of therapeutic community, drug addiction, opinions analyses

The report represents quantitative outcomes from a research focuses on the analysis of the opinions of the clients of therapeutic community of the adventure therapy. Among the most significant the clients described getting new experience, increasing the responsibility for themselves and their decisions, improving the cooperation abilities, the possibility to solve problems in new ways. Following the activities they were thinking about the values in life, they realized greater resistance to stress and they said this experience will be useful after the treatment ends. Based on the verification of the set hypotheses four were confirmed which described differences in client´s opinions of their self-respect development, the ability to cooperate, independence and the ability to consider life values, the verification took place during the first and third phase of the treatment.