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The Issue of Foster Care from the Perspective of Foster Parents and Accompanying Workers
JIRÁSKOVÁ, Aneta
The bachelor thesis deals with the issue of foster family care from the perspective of foster parents and the accompanying worker. The aim of the thesis was to find out what are the positives and negatives of cooperation between foster parents and accompanying organizations and to describe the experience of cooperation between accompanying workers and foster parents. The bachelor thesis has two parts. The theoretical part explains the basic concepts related to foster family care and its forms with emphasis on foster care. Family, its functions and types of families are defined, the concept of attachment, social and legal protection of children is explained. A relatively large space is devoted to foster care, its types and the process of mediation of FC. The last chapter covers the accompanying organisations for foster families, accompanying workers and the services provided by each organisation. In the practical part, qualitative research was conducted, using a semi-structured interview technique with foster parents and accompanying workers. Subsequently, the interviews are processed according to each communication partner. The research shows that the cooperation of foster parents with the AO is evaluated positively, a big role is played by the person of the accompanying worker, especially his personal qualities, the way of working and the overall approach and treatment with the family, because it is, together with the services provided, a decisive factor for the selection of the AO. In the conclusion of the thesis my main findings and the results I have achieved are summarized. I think that this thesis could be considered as a useful resource or information material that could serve future foster carers, accompanying workers as well as students in the field of social work. It could also be beneficial in improving awareness of foster care and accompanying organisations.
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Psychic deprivation and subdeprivation of children as an educational challenge
NOVÁK, David
The goal of this thesis is to understand the experience of those educators who had the opportunity to interact with deprived children with the help of narrative research. Specifically, the thesis is focused on people providing foster care. The theoretical part of the thesis presents basic psychological constructs that help shed light on the issue of deprivation syndrome. The thesis uses qualitative tools in the practical part to research the mentioned phenomenon.
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The issue of foster care with Roma children from the perspective of experience from Strakonice
KUNEŠOVÁ, Hana
The bachelor thesis consists of 3 chapters. The first chapter is dedicated to the Roma, their culture and customs, family relationships and their history. The second chapter is about foster care, how we divide it, about the work of a social worker and work with Roma families and children. And the third chapter is dedicated to the organization Prevent, specifically the Center for Foster Families and whether work with Roma families is different. This chapter also contains interviews with workers from the Center for Foster Families. It was ascertained how many Roma families the workers have, whether working with them is different, and if so, how. What kind of work does an employee do at the Center and how was the Center affected by the change in the law. The aim of the bachelor's thesis is to find out in the organization Prevent 99 z. ú. in Strakonice how foster care with Roma currently works and what is the role of the social worker.
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Foster care and foster care for a temporary period (comparison of institutes)
Matuszczyková, Klára ; Frinta, Ondřej (advisor) ; Lederer, Vít (referee)
Foster care and foster care for a temporary period (comparison of institutes) Abstract The thesis focuses on the institutes of foster care and describes their different aspects It analyses the differences between the institutes as well as the specific features of foster care carried out by close relatives. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter describes both institutes from a theoretical point of view and explains their historical development. The second part deals with the human rights aspect, which focuses on principles like the best interests of the child and the right to family life. In particular, how they can be applied in foster care. The different approaches are interpreted in the context of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. The second chapter is devoted to all those involved. This is the part of the thesis in which the differences of entities depending on the type of care are revealed. The second chapter focuses on all stakeholders in foster care. The thesis discusses temporary foster parents and foster parents, including foster parents of kinship, and their differences in terms of training and entitlements. The chapter also includes an analysis of the terms transitional and crisis fostering. Socio-legal...
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Assisted Custody in the Process of Foster Care
MOULÍKOVÁ, Dita
The bachelor thesis is focused on the service of assisted contact in the process of foster care. The aim of this thesis is to find out how the assisted contact service is used in organizations accompanying foster families in the South Bohemian region. Based on the study of theoretical data, the research question is "How do social workers in the South Bohemian Region perceive assisted contact?" This thesis is divided into theoretical and practical or research part, while the theoretical part includes a description of forms of substitute family care, an explanation of the child's contact in foster care with the biological family and defining the assisted contact service. The practical part is based on qualitative research. The method of questioning, the technique of semi-structured interview, was used for processing. A total of five interviews were conducted. The interviews were conducted thanks to social workers involved in accompanying the foster parents, who were selected as a research group based on a deliberate selection method. The results were evaluated using open coding. The results of the interviews show that social workers providing the assisted contact service in the South Bohemian Region have a predominantly positive attitude towards the assisted contact service and therefore perceive it as beneficial. The results of this bachelor's thesis can be used as a study material for students or institutions dealing with the issue of accompanying foster families, or for future applicants for foster care.
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Pěstounská péče prarodičů z pohledu zaměstnanců orgánu sociálně-právní ochrany dětí
VLČKOVÁ, Dominika
The bachelor thesis deals with the issue of foster care performed by grandparents. Foster care is a form of substitute family care in which the foster parent personally takes care of the child and is responsible for his / her upbringing. An individual, spouse or partner who meets the conditions stipulated by law can become a foster parent. They are often the child's grandparents. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to map the opinions of employees of the social and legal protection of children on foster care of grandparents with a focus on the benefits and risks of this foster care. Qualitative research, the method of questioning and the technique of semi-structured interview have been used to achieve the set goal. Interviews were conducted with substitute family care staff at the Department of Social and Legal Protection of Children at municipal authorities, the regional authority in the selected region and the municipality of the selected city. The obtained data have been processed by the method of clustering. The results have shown that, despite the disadvantages of grandparents' foster care, surrogate family care workers have a positive subjective feeling about this form of care. The great advantage, compared to the mediated foster parent, is the family and emotional bond between the grandparent and the child. The child usually knows the grandparent from an early age and is used to the environment where the grandparent lives. This bachelor thesis can be beneficial for social workers working with the family, because it also points to the negative aspects that grandparents' foster care brings. At the same time, it highlights the benefits of this type of foster care.
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The attitudes of foster parents to services provided by nonprofit organizations in Ceske Budejovice district
ŠIMONOVÁ, Petra
The bachelor thesis deals with the attitudes of foster parents to services provided by accompanying organizations in the district of České Budějovice. The first part of my bachelor thesis describes the basic concepts like the foster care and family. The aim is to present legal rights and responsibilities which foster parents towards the entrusted child have. I dedicated the second part of my theoretical part to the description of the accompanying organizations and social workers. The practical part provides data analysis from the answers acquired during the semi structured interviews. My goal is to find out whether the services provided by non-profit organization to foster families are sufficiently fulfilled according to the act number 359/1999 concerning Legal Code About Social and Legal Protection of Children. This thesis is also interested in their points of view on accompanying organizations and if they would appreciate or welcome any changes.
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Význam doprovázejících organizací z pohledu pěstounů
JAHODOVÁ, Vendula
Bachelor thesis focuses to foster parent´s experiences with accompanying organizations. The goal of thesis is to describe this experince and identify factors affecting fosterparent´s attitude.Accompanying organization as supporting service should assure fosterparent´s leading through whole process of foster care. Besides they are able to assure services beyond what is required by law. In theoretical part, I´m focused on family, its role and attachment´s theory. Then I´m describing substitute family care, its forms and legislative framework. Foster care has its own chapter including history and types of care, foster parent´s rights, social security, mediation and foster care´s process. Next chapter is devoted to accompanying organizations, including legislative framework for social-juristic children protection assured by authorized person, examples of accompanying organizations in Southern Bohemia and standarts for social-juristic children protection assured by authorized persons. Through demi-structured interviews I gained informations by Group 1, Group 2 was engaged through questionnaire. Mind Map was used for interviews preparation, questionnaire processing and evaluation. Content analysis was used for interviews data´s processing.For questionnaire data´s processing was used basic descriptive statistics, especially frequency statistics. It follows from the research part of my work, that the key social worker plays an important role in relationship to accompanying organization, especially his competence, professionalism and personality. Sometimes specific social worker can be a decisive factor in creating of attitude to accompanying organizations. Most of foster parents have a good experince with accompanying organizations. It follows from the research, that every accompanying organzation provides different range and quality of services. This research can be useful for social field students and for social workers. It can serve future foster parent´s for problematic orientation, eventual with accompanying organization´s choice.
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Ethical Dilemmas of Foster Care
KANTOR, Jan
This bachelor's thesis deals with the aspects of foster care itself and also focuses on social workers who are involved in this branch. The aim of this work is to point out the most common ethical dilemmas, that the social workers in foster care have to deal with. The work has been divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part describes current situation in foster care. There are described forms of alternative family care including foster care, which is described more in detail. The theoretical part also deals with the topic of ethical dilemma in foster care and introduces the ethical codex for social workers. The practical part was processed through the qualitative strategy using the method of interviewing and the semi-structural interview technique. Partners for the interviews were social workers from non-profit organizations who guide the foster families. This selective sample was chosen according to the purposive sampling method.The snowball sampling method was also used in this work. The interviews were evaluated by using the open coding method and as a result were described nine categories. The research also helped to name three most common ethical dilemmas that the social workers have to deal with. This work also describes the aspects that help the social workers to solve these dilemmas. This bachelor's thesis can help social workers in foster care to understand and solve ethical dilemmas or also for further research
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