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"Prague Institutional Care of Orphans and > Abandoned Children in the First Half of the 20th Century
Fremrová, Květa ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Rákosník, Jakub (referee)
This bachelor thesis investigates care of orphans and abandoned children paying particular attention to Prague institutes for those children. Firstly, this paper describes general development of care of orphans and abandoned children, system of organization of this type of care and some subjects working in the field of care of children. The children could be provided for either in foster families or in institutes. Part of this paper describes those two possibilities and period discussion about advantages and disadvantages of both possibilities. The key topic of the thesis is organization of social care of children in the Prague area and description of selected children's homes and orphanages. The thesis also briefly describes everyday life in institutes: it characterizes inhabitants of institutes, relationship among personel and inmates and way of financing the institutes. Archive materials of particular children's homes and also period specialized literature were the basic sources for the thesis. Keywords: orphans, abandoned children, social care, Prague, children's homes
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Visitors' care - advantages and disadvantages
Vávrová, Tereza ; Procházková, Jana (advisor) ; Sotáková, Hana (referee)
The baccalaureate report is focused on a new developing type of adoption and foster care - visitors' care. In theoretic part visitors' care is introduced as a one of the possibilities how to let children from children's home know family life and function of common family. In this part, there are named reasons of taking children away from their own biological family and the ways of working with those children. Visitors' care is introduced in the system adoption and foster care. Then the report treats about what conditions on an applicant of visitors' care are and what children can be included in this type of care and moreover, how should this care be realized. Because this report is concerned on possibilities of satisfying of psychological needs at visitors' care and advantages and disadvantages which visitors' care brings, one of the chapters is focused on theory of the basic psychological needs by Matějček and Langmeier. Practical part concerned on three sights on visitors' care and its evaluation including mentioned aspects. Those three sights come from interviews conducted with directors of children's homes and workers of Department of Social and Legal Protection of Children; and from questionnaires filled in by the visitors. Apart of evaluation of positives, risks and possibilities of...
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Work activity as part of therapeutic - formative activities in children's home
LOMOVÁ, Michaela
This bachelor thesis focuses on the issue of preparing children in children's homes for real-life once they leave institutional care. One of the ways of improving the current state of affairs is to use therapeutic-formative methods in everyday pedagogical activities of educators, particularly suitable seem to be therapies based on work or activities. Consequently, the aim of this bachelor thesis is to prepare, implement and evaluate an educational project that uses these working activities to boost competences (skills, proficiency, knowledge and attitudes that children from institutional orphan care need to lead an independent life). The body of this work consists of four parts. The first chapter studies institutional orphan care as educational institutions for institutional education, primarily the way they are rooted in law, their function, target group characteristics and current trends in this field of studies. The second part specifies and introduces therapeutic-formative approaches that constitute a part of pedagogical praxis in Czech Republic and other countries, including therapies based on games, activities or work, animal-assisted therapies, expressive arts therapies or psychomotorical therapies. The third part analyses the importance of work and working activities in the life of man. In this thesis, work is considered to be one of the most basic human activities; its aim is to achieve not only material provision, but also to satisfy physical needs and to initiate a positive change in the social role of individual. The fourth chapter contains well-proven educational project that is based on the results of before-mentioned informational resources analysis and, in concordance with these results, focuses on a development of real-life competencies (which are, in this particular case, represented by food preparation skills). The methodical part of this project defines goals and approaches, formulates primary principles of implementation and specifies evaluation criteria. Subsequently, it describes the structure of the project itself and contains implementation records and final evaluation. This project was based on an analysis of professional resources and takes into account the needs and characteristics of its target audience ? 8 children from orphan care institutions aged 12 to 18 years. Its name (?Gourmet tour of Italy?) clearly reveals that it is all about preparing dishes from Italian cuisine, which today enjoys a lot of popularity. The broader primary goals of this project are to bolster children?s training for independent life after they leave institutional care and to initiate a more positive approach towards everyday work-related activities. Specific goals of this project are to train basic cooking skills, prepare several simple dishes, acquire information about ingredients needed to prepare given meals, connect data about geography and real life in Italy gained during education with particular information connected to local gastronomy and a motivation to further develop personal cooking skills. Evaluation of the project has three tiers: self-evaluation of project leader, evaluation of the project from participants and evaluation of competencies gained by participants from project leader using games and interview techniques. The project was implemented in cooperation with Dětský domov in Boršov nad Vltavou from February to May 2013. On the basis of given evaluation we can safely state that the planned goals were achieved and the project turned out to be a success. This educational project can be, without further modifications, implemented for another group of children (in another orphan care institution). Another possibility is to modify the project topic and implement it with the same group of children, which could have a positive influence on boosting the acquired knowledge and skills and achieving a further improvement of their attitude towards food preparation in real life.
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Characteristics of creative expression of boys living in a children's home
KOTENOVÁ, Nikola
The bachelor thesis is focused on creative expression of boys living in a children's home. The theoretical part deals with pubescence, children's homes, mental deprivation and creative expression of children especially drawing of the human figure. In the research part characteristics of creative expression of boys living in a children's home are observed and differences are found in comparison to creative expression of boys living in a usual family environment.
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Institutional Up-bringing in a Children´s Home - legal aspects
BADÁŇOVÁ, Petra
This bachelor thesis offers a contemporary summary of characteristic features of the institutional care in connection to public criticism and future legislative changes and their possible acceptance in practice. There are six connected chapters in this work that analyze the contemporary system of alternative care, both with the characteristics of its actions and with the effect of its parts. The attention is focused, in connection with above mentioned points, to analyses of critical aspects and possible remedy through the transformation of this system. The present legislative is being transformed. The research part, through a quantitative study, reflects the fact, that children´s homes welcome the acceptance of the proposed amendment to the Act number 109/2002 Sb.. This happens even though the homes are not yet capable of suggested changes in many points, especially those ones asking for cooperation in multidisciplinary actions and material support from the state.
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Subdeprivation and its consequences for a school development of the child
BÍLÁ, Radmila
The aim of my dissertation is to provide a look into the subdeprivation phenomena in contemporary child care institutions (children{\crq}s homes, foster care). The theoretical part is focused on defining of basic concepts related to psychological deprivation, defining of psychological needs of children and psychological deprivation displays. Further, it deals with children{\crq}s homes issues, with some kinds of foster family care and with the unwanted children matter. The practical part focuses on the aim of the work. There are compared three children groups (children growing up in a functional family, children from children{\crq}s homes and children from foster care). There are described the findings that were gained from selected tests and observations. In the end the outcomes were evaluated.
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