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Professional readiness of children in children´s homes from the point of view of social work
FLEKALOVÁ, Simona
This bachelor thesis focuses on the role of the social worker in the professional preparation of children in children's homes, but also on the subjects involved in this process. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to find out what procedures and activities are carried out by the social worker in preparing children for secondary education, what methods are used or what actors are involved. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical parts. In the theoretical part of the thesis I deal with the definition of institutional education in the Czech Republic, the legislative anchoring of this issue, the role of the social worker in the children's home, and finally the child's departure from institutional education. The practical part of the thesis is devoted to the research itself. In order to achieve the goal, qualitative research, questionnaire method, semi-structured interview technique was chosen. One research set was chosen, which consisted of 5 social workers from the Czech Republic. The collected data was evaluated using elements of the grounded theory method, with open coding and categorization in the first stage and axial coding in the second stage with finding relationships between the codes and categories. Graphical processing of the categories was done in Atlas.ti. The results of the research show that the social worker in professional readiness in children's homes is mainly responsible for administrative tasks and communication with children and parents of the children placed. Many actors are involved in the process of professional readiness mainly educators, the director of the institution or the primary school. Non-profit organisations that organise weekend or holiday stays for the children and, last but not least, the services of the employment office and school fairs are still widely used.
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Multicultural and Citizenship Education in Children´s Homes and Educational Institutions - The Role of the Social Worker
VÍKOVÁ, Eliška
This bachelor's thesis deals with the topic of multicultural education and citizenship education in children's homes and educational institutions. The aim of the bachelor's thesis is to find out and generally explain how multicultural education and citizenship education are understood in the education system for pupils who are placed in educational institutions. It also describes how a social worker is involved in the education process. The theoretical part of the bachelor's thesis is devoted to the characteristics of the cross-cutting topics Multicultural Education and Citizenship Education, which are included in the Framework Educational Program for Elementary Education. Within the characterization of cross-cutting topics, the basic goals of education in these areas are generally described. Furthermore, in this part of the bachelor's thesis, the School Education Program is defined in detail, which is one of the indispensable and binding documents of all primary, secondary schools and educational institutions. The last part focuses on clarifying the issue of social work in institutions for the performance of institutional and protective education. The practical part is based on the undertaken research. It describes the selected qualitative research procedure, the interview method and the semi-structured interview technique. The research group for carrying out the research was selected on the basis of a purposive selection from social workers of children's homes and educational institutions who gave their consent to the research. The obtained data were evaluated using open coding and then the data were categorized.
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Children's Home, Novy Jicin
Vlčková, Milada ; Čtvrtníčková, Kateřina (referee) ; Kolář, Radim (advisor)
The Master´s thesis deals with a design of the children´s home in Novy Jicin. It is an object providing preventative educational assistance to children, pupils and students and their families, schools, and school establishment. The institute will operate as an outpatient (advisory panel) and boarding (forward determined length of stay based on the decision of the social employee, e.g. two months). The house is two-storied with partial basement and flat roof. The supporting structure of underground floor is made up of concrete blocks, reinforced concrete ceiling. Supporting structures above ground floors including ceiling are made up of solid timber boards. The roof is double-leaf, structure is made up of timber nailed trusses. The building is founded on the concrete base strips. Thermal insulation is made from cannabis plates. The thesis includes contract documents for the construction of building.
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Social Worker in Children's Home
MAURICOVÁ, Kristýna
This thesis focuses on the activities of a social worker in a children´s home. Its objective is to provide insight into the work of a social worker in a children´s home, describe the challenges and experiences encountered in the practice of social work. A social worker is an essential part of every children´s home. His responsibilities mainly involve the administrative aspects of admitting, accommodating, and departure of a child. In the practical part of the thesis a qualitative research strategy was utilized to fulfill the set objective, using specific methods such as questioning and semi-structured interview technique. Through semi-structured interview, answers to a total of 12 questions were gathered, which helped to clarify the objectives and research questions of the thesis. The research sample consisted of social workers from children´s homes. The gathered data was analyzed using open coding and subsequently grouped into categories. The results shown that the work of a social worker in a children´s home is primarily administrative in nature, and they only come into contact with the children in specific situations. The experiences of social workers vary in some cases, but they generally agree on the difficulties they face. One of the difficulties lies in facilitating contact between parents and child. For social workers in children´s homes, it is demanding to locate and contact parents. The problem is frequent changes in residence addresses or phone numbers. Another issue with parents is situation when they make numerous promises to their children but fail to fulfill them in the end. They lack essential information about the birth of the child, childhood, sometimes even about their health condition and relatives. The departure of a child from the home is also demanding for the workers. The workers have information about some children or the children themselves come to visit the children´s home, Unfortunately, regarding some of the children, the workers have no information, which troubles them.
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Socially-Anormative Behaviour, Causes and Their Prevention in Selected Children´s Homes
KUCHAŘOVÁ, Eliška
Bachelor thesis deals with socially anormative behaviour, its causes and prevention in selected children's homes. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to identify the most common manifestations of socially anormative behaviour in children in children's homes, to describe the prevention of this behaviour and to propose possible solutions to socially anormative behaviour. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses on the basic concepts related to the family, its functions and other important socialization factors that influence children's behaviour. The theoretical part includes concepts related to childs relationships, significant emotional attachments. The bachelor thesis includes an explanation of the concepts of anormative behaviour. Last but not least, possible causes and prevention of socially anormative behaviour are presented in the thesis. In the practical part, a qualitative research strategy, semi-structured interview technique and questionnaire method were used. Based on the objective, the study and the literature, research questions were identified and enriched with additional questions. The research population consisted of 8 female workers from two unnamed children's homes in the Highlands. The semi-structured interview included 10 questions that helped me to clarify the aims and research questions of the undergraduate thesis. The research investigation revealed that the most common manifestations of socially anormative behaviour were lying, aggressive behaviour, and uncontrollable crying. In most cases it was stated there is a need for more cooperation with professionals, improved cooperation with the family, and informing the public about the consequences of social anormative behaviour. The communication partners tried to suggest possible solutions to socially anormative behaviour and also most often answered that it is necessary to work with the family at the beginning of the problem and also to financially support biological parents instead of foster parents, which would motivate mothers to take care of their own children.
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Comparison of Access of Workers of Children´s Home, Primary School and School Canteen Radenín to Children with Disabilities and to Children without Disabilities
ZHORNÁ, Michaela
The aim of this work was to map the activities of children's home workers in the care of children with disabilities and children without disabilities. The research set consisted of six staff members from the Children's Home, Primary School, and School Canteen Radenín, one of whom was a social worker who is an essential component in childcare. The research was carried out by qualitative research. A method of questioning was used to answer the research questions and a semi-structured interview was the technique. The data obtained from the interviews was evaluated by open coding and then breaking the codes into categories. Based on the research carried out, it has emerged that the education of children in a children´s home varies greatly, due to a visit to two types of schools when children come with different difficulty of tasks. There needs to be a difference in access to education for children with disabilities and children without disabilities. This brings me to the answer to the second research question, when workers in education with children with disabilities have to use certain specific aids to make it easier for children to work. Workers with specific aids not only encounter children with disabilities in education, but also in developing motor and skills in a boy with cerebral palsy. The work brings knowledge in the field of education of children with disabilities and the use of special aids when working with these children. The aids can be educational cards, which serve as an aid to the development of communication skills, or an auxiliary table for multiplication. It is clear from the research that an assistant educator is an indispensable component in working with children with disabilities because these children need individual care.
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Impacts on the child's psyche after placement in a children's home
STARÁ, Daniela
This diploma thesis deals with the impacts on the child's psyche after being placed in a children´s home. The theoretical part contains the basic terms related to this issue. It also deals with the description of the psychological development of the child, the description of the development of emotions and also the possibilities of institutional care. The practical part describes the chosen methodology of the research. Furthermore, four topics chosen on the basis of the interviews are analyses here. These topics are divided into individual chapters, which the deal with the topics of love, care, safety, relationships, trusts, guilt and children´s home. Each topic is elaborated on the basis of interviews, where I as the author am one of the respondents.
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Financial Literacy and Readiness of Young People to Leave the Children's Home
ZŮBKOVÁ, Irena
The Bachelor Thesis deals with the topic of financial literacy and readiness for independant living of young adults leaving children's homes and their peers growing up in families. The aim of the thesis is the comparison of these two groups. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The first one defines terms of institutional education and children's home, including their functions in the area of financial education. In addition, the theoretical part defines the term financial literacy, mainly the terms loans (focusing on short and medium term loans), their payments and risks that might have impact on the life of an adult. Another part comprises the description of financial education in various types of schools that children from children's homes as well as children with family background undertake. In the practical part there were used the following methods: qualitative research, questioning and semi-structured interview. There were involved 10 communication partners at the age from 18 to 20; half of them young adults from children's homes and the other half young adults with family background. The research questions focused on the level of financial literacy, personal budgeting abilities, income and expenses, opinions on loans. A part of the questions dealt with assessing the influence of children's home and family background on financial literacy of young adults. The thesis could be beneficial as it introduces a new view on the comparison of financial literacy of young adults from children's homes and their peers growing up in families. Moreover, it can provide useful information for employees of children's homes and other social workers who meet clients in need of help in the area of financial matters and thus it can improve the preparation of young adults leaving children's homes for their independent life.
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Psychosocial experiencing of children at children´s home
WITZANYOVÁ, Aneta
Placement in a children's home constitutes an immense change of a child's life as the child has known it so far; this is certainly reflected in the child's experience and evaluation of life. Life at a children's home affects mental and social aspects of children's experience, in certain cases favourably and in other cases adversely. Reasons for that can be found in previous experience from own families and the ability to adapt to the new environment. One of the objectives of the present thesis is to point out specifics of children's experience in children's homes at the very least in connection with any trauma experienced. This diploma thesis pursues several objectives. The pivotal objective is to raise awareness of and popularize the aforementioned theme and to carry out research into what kind of complaints children might have as regards children's homes and, on the contrary, what factors reinforce their competences. The research was performed with the aim of helping children's homes focus on improving conditions for better development and psyche of the children who live there. Another objective of the research was to explore the relationship between children and their carers, and to determine their future plans with respect to their past when it comes to life goals and family life. The theoretical part of the thesis is concerned with the family, institutional upbringing system and defines a children's home. In addition, the theoretical part reflects upon causes for placing children in a children's home, risks of institutional upbringing as well as the problem of mental deprivation and personality of a child or an adolescent. The following chapters analyse the role of male and female carers and psychosocial experience of children in children's homes. The empirical part of the thesis is engaged in the research per se, summarization and presentation of data acquired and, last but not least, determination of replies to research questions. The research was carried out on the basis of a qualitative survey using the technique of anchored theory, by means of three-level coding and determination of anchored statements. Data were processed in the software programme ATLAS.ti, where graphic outputs were generated in order to supplement every category and subcategory in the empirical part of the thesis. The analysis and interpretation of the data acquired revealed that despite the fact that children express certain dissatisfaction with the schedule that they have to keep in children's homes, they complain of certain aspects and their past experience has an impact on them, their life in children's homes is not entirely stressful, subject to exceptions, and most of them are relatively happy. In spite of this, conditions in children's homes might and must be improved, which fact constitutes a challenge especially for staff of children's homes. Another outcome of the research showed that relationships between children and carers are mostly good and rely on mutual trust, despite occasional disagreements. The research also delved into future goals and ambitions of children in children's homes, which concern changes in their future family life, leading to solid relationships between them and their own children and enabling them to care of their children in a due form. From the perspective of other goals, children want their dreams to come true, complete their education, settle down, be happy and lead a "normal" life. This diploma thesis could contribute to spreading awareness of and popularizing the theme of psychosocial experience of children in children's home. Furthermore, with respect to its results, the thesis might serve as instructional material for staff in children's homes to identify areas of improvement or risk areas and to learn what it is that makes children happy. Performed on the state-wide level, the extent of the research is very wide-ranging and is based on real responses of children from children's homes.
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Integration of childern raised outside the family in society
PEŘINOVÁ, Eva
This diploma thesis called Integration of children raised outside the family into society deals with life stories of young adults who left a children's home. The main aim of the thesis is to find out the fates of young people who are leaving susbsitute family care. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and empirical. In the theoretical part of the thesis is decribed the issue of family from its typology, functionality and remediation. It also deals with the system of substitute family care, including institutional care and its pittfalls, leaving institutional care and related problems in entering independent life. Briefly, there are also described projects facilitating the integration of young individuals into society when they are leaving institutonal care. The empirical part of the thesis was processed by qualitative method of questioning, using the technique of narrative interview. The research group consisted of ten adults who grew up in a children's home in the South Bohemian Region and have experience of leaving the children's home. Data were processed using ATLAS.ti software, open coding and subsequent data categorization was performed. Research has shown that young people leaving a children's home at a very young age have difficulty entering independent life, especially in the areas of finance, employment, housing and social networking. Despite the preparation that takes place in a children's home, it is difficult for them to succeed at such a young age outside the children's home without the support of someone close to them that could help them to solve difficult and everyday worries. The diploma thesis could serve the general public interested in this issue because it contains a brief outline of theoretical information. It could be also used as an information source for organizations with this target group, as it maps the basic problems and needs of this target group.
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