Adventure therapy, client of therapeutic community, drug addict, self-efficacy, self esteem, stress.

Adventure therapy programmes are the activities which are included in the therapy programmes for the drug addicts in therapeutic communities in the Czech Republic. The paper presents the results of the specific university research focused on the self- efficacy rate, self-evaluation and perceived stress rate of the clients of six therapeutic communities before going through the adventure therapeutic programmes, after finishing it and 14 days after its ending. Both the experimental and control group were part of the research, the control group was made of the clients of the therapeutic communities which do not do the adventure therapy. Three psychological tests were used after gathering the data: General Self-Efficacy Scale, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Stress Test. The statistical significance was found in the areas of self-efficacy and self-evaluation of the clients before and after the programme. Statistical significance for the perceived stress rate was not proved. The control group unlike the experimental group did not show any statistically significant changes during the observation period.