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Children Running Away from Facilities Providing Institutionalized and Protective Child Care
Houfková, Aneta ; Čedík, Miloslav (advisor) ; Zelinková, Olga (referee)
Numbers of cases of children running away from children care and protective care institutions in the Czech Republic have increased over past years. However, not enough attention is given to the topic of runaways. The goal of this paper is to introduce running away in broader theoretical perspectives and to explore methods of work with runaway children. The theoretical part of this thesis deals with the definition of running away and presents the model of runaway process, types of runaways, consequences of runaway behavior, and recommended intervention methodologies. It also presents a brief characteristics of children in children and protective care institutions and legal framework of the system. In the research part of the paper contents of 11 semi-structured interviews with workers and representatives of children and protective care institutions were analyzed, coded and grouped by topics and categories. Following methodology of qualitative research, the analysis shows overview of what is perceived as running away, the child care workers beliefs and attitudes towards running away, prevention and intervention methods and services available.
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