A mentor is a wise teacher, while a master is someone who not only skilfully shows us the ways of knowing, but also makes us aware of and discovers our scientific and research potential. Unfortunately, nowadays, students less and less recognise lecturers as masters and less and less frequently call them authorities. Therefore, if pupils, students and colleagues pay tribute to a deceased mentor, special attention should be paid to this.
In contrast, the last article in part two is devoted to alternatives to traditional alcohol treatment therapy, namely Minnesota-based therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy. The content of this subsection may be of equal interest to therapists, clinicians and readers not professionally specialised in addiction treatment. The clarity of the language and style used by the author is also helpful in understanding the article. Jan Chodkiewicz writes here what the innovative approach to treating addicts that was initiated in the late 1940s and early 1950s was all about. He looks at alcohol addiction as a primary disease with multiple causes and no cure.
Chodkiewicz also devotes successive chapters to the issue of the treatment of addicts in Polish therapeutic institutions, and poses a number of research questions and issues concerning the selection of therapy for a particular patient. It is worth mentioning that the author of this article first learned about addiction from Janusz Kostrzewski's lectures on clinical psychology when he was a student in Łódź. The subsequent parts of this publication are equally interesting. The third part, with the collective title The experience of disability and ways of coping with it, contains seven research articles.
Again, the subsequent articles are interesting reading and a source of information mainly for specialists - here from the field of special education and other professionals working with intellectually disabled people - therapists, psychologists, oligophrenopedagogues, etc.
The opening chapter of the third part of the publication discusses the attitudes of non-disabled people towards disabled people, the personal and environmental determinants of these attitudes and the reasons for, for example, negative attitudes towards people with dysfunctions and older people. In the following articles, the authors consider the problem of self-esteem and self-perception of adolescents with mild disabilities and the question of the conditions necessary for a student with a learning disability to achieve educational success.
Agnieszka Kusz and Wojciech Otrębski addressed the extremely difficult issue of sexuality of mentally handicapped people and sex education of this group of people. The authors set themselves the goal of presenting and analysing the results of research on sexuality conducted among the disabled, as well as the theoretical context of the analyses. The tables accompanying the discussion present the results of questionnaires conducted to check the level of knowledge about selected manifestations of sexuality and the relationship between the sexual behaviour undertaken and gender and the degree of mental disability.
The last two papers in this section consider families of people (mainly children) with developmental disorders and Down's syndrome. The authors delve into the experiences and experiences of grandparents of children with developmental disorders, the support provided by grandparents to the family of a child with a disability, and the factors determining involvement in the upbringing of disabled grandchildren and the support of the parents of these children. Elżbieta M. Minczakiewicz, in turn, analysed the situation in families in which a child with Down syndrome appears, the quality of life of these families and the intensity of the sense of meaning in life.
