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Professional faster care abroad
Chlubnová, Gabriela ; Šotolová, Eva (advisor) ; Mlčková, Marie (referee)
Bachelar thesis is devoted to the topic of professional foster care abroad. The target of the thesis was to show the way of the functioning this form of the substitute family care in two different countries. The first part describes the characteristics psychological aspects of the foster care. Another part talks about the professional foster care in Slovakia. After separation of Czechoslovakia, the system of the substitute family care in Slovakia was developing differently than in the Czech Republic. There is a literature dealing with these issues of the professional foster care in Slovakia so I could well study it and wrote complexly about this issue. There is also a part in my thesis about the civil association "Návrat", which supports the comeback of abandoned children in to the family. The important part of the process of comeback of the abandoned children in to the family is the social work with dysfunctional families. The final part of the thesis informs about the professional foster care in Norway. I was studying in Norway at the Erasmus program so I had the great opportunity to get the information about the system of the professional foster care from the people working in such a organizations in Oslo. Norway is one of the most advanced countries in Europe so also the system of professional...
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Professional foster parents as part of the substitutional family care system in the Czech Republic
Vošahlíková, Radka ; Čabanová, Bohumila (advisor) ; Dobiášová, Karolína (referee)
The focus of Bachelor thesis "Professional foster parents as part of the substitutional family care system in the Czech Republic" are a temporary foster care and professional foster parents in the Czech Republic. It describes a system of substitutional family care in the Czech Republic as well as the professional foster care as a new option of childcare for those children who cannot grow up in their biological families. The institution is initially described in general terms: where it comes from, how it is supposed to work, what goals it tries to follow, and how the foster works abroad. Then the work focuses on professional foster care in the Czech Republic, its current state, how it is perceived by professionals in the area of threatened children, and what are its future opportunities. In the end, it is evaluated using SWOT analysis, while the work also lists two possible future scenarios of the professional foster care in the Czech Republic.
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Foster care in private and public law
Čiháková, Adéla ; Radvanová, Senta (advisor) ; Frinta, Ondřej (referee)
FOSTER CARE IN PUBLIC AND IN PRIVATE LAW Abstract The diploma paper deals with the present legal regulations of foster care in private law as well as in public law. The institute of foster care is placed on the frontier of public and private law and the purpose of my diploma paper is to assess, after a complete analysis, which of these two law branches is the foster care closer to. The diploma paper is divided into nine chapters. The first chapter is dedicated to the institute of foster care in general. This chapter has to introduce the reader into the problems and to acquaint him with the basic way-outs. The second chapter defines the notion of foster care and its purpose. Also the historical way-outs are described there. We can see the progression of this institute, as we understand it these days, since 19th century. The essential modification came during the period of communism and the reinsertion of the institute of foster care came at the end of 90's in 20th century. The third chapter is about the present legal regulations of foster care in the legal order of Czech Republic. The sources of legal regulations of foster care, including international sources that govern family law, are characterized there. There are also mentioned single presumptions of the inception of foster care, requests on the person...
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Importance of foster care in the social legal protection of children
HORALOVÁ, Nela
The topic of my thesis is importace of foster care in the social-legal protection of children. The thesis deals with the issues of foster care, professional foster care and also of the transformation of care for children in need. The aim is to describe changes in the foster care that brought the amendment of the Law on the social-legal protection of child and adoption of the new Civil Code. Another aim is to determine the effect of strengthening the professional foster care to the number of children placed in institutional care. In the beginning of the thesis is defined the concept of family, social-legal protection of children, alternative family care and its forms like foster care, professional foster care and adoption. Another part of thesis deals with amendment to the Law on social and legal protection of children and the new Civil Code. In this part I describe the most important changes that the Law on the social-legal protection of children brought and I also describe changes that brought an amendment to the civil code. The adoption of the amendment to the social-legal protection brings a number of changes in the activities of the social-legal protection of children and the exercise of social-legal protection of children in general. The last chapter deals with the statistic of foster care. This part compares the number of children in professional foster care and institutional care.
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Foster care for a transitional period - the phenomenon of the current alternative family care
SEDLÁČKOVÁ VINKLEROVÁ, Blanka
Short-term foster care is a fairly new form of substitute family care. Despite it having been incorporated in law since 2006, short-term foster care have only begun being employed seven years later. Only then the details of its administration were laid out in legislation. Purpose of this form of substitute family care is to prevent a placement of children into institutional care. It's possible to look at the professional foster care from different angles and thus assess it differently. Certainly, it has its positive and negative aspects as well as possible problems. It's undeniable that a well-functioning family is the best environment for raising and caring for a child. Forming an emotional bond is one of the most discussed factors contributing to the proper development of children placed in short-term foster care. Experts as well as the general public are looking for answers to the questions whether or not it's in the interest of the child to form an attachment to someone who's with them only for a short period of time, which children is professional foster care best suited for, whether children living in short-term foster care placements are less prone to suffer from emotional deprivation than children placed in institutional care or whether the duration of this form of foster care is sufficient. More questions arise over the degree of health care provided to infants placed with a professional forster family as well as over the level of risk of these children suffering traumas and stigmatizing experience compared to children living in institutional care. The objective of this thesis is to survey and assess the experience gained so far from implementing short-term foster care and to try and describe based on (previously) established facts how the children benefit from this form of substitute family care. In order to meet the set objective I chose a qualitative research strategy, the interview as a method, a semi-structured interview and a secondary analysis strategies. The results show that the most common reason for placing a child in this form of foster care is the impending adoption, i. e. it's mainly being used for infants whilst adoption placements are sorted out for them. To a lesser extent there are other reasons, respectively a minimum of older children are placed with professional foster families. Given these facts, it appears necessary to regard the short-term foster care differently depending on the age group of children placed in it. Undeniable merits of all cases of short-term foster care are an individual approach to each child that minimizes emotional deprivation and development of trauma, the development of the attachment behaviour and enough stimuli to influence a child's development. In the case of older children these are an experience of living in a well-functioning family and a positive educational impact. Developing an attachment between the child and the foster parent and then losing it because of the child's departure from a family is more risky for older children than newborns and toddlers. Claim that no attachment is to be formed between the child and the foster parent proved entirely unrealistic. The lack of permanent medical supervision can be seen as a disadvantage of professional foster care especially from the perspective of child welfare workers. Children placed for adoption often come from not monitored pregnancies or parents at-risk, i.e. these are children with unknown history whose development can therefore be risky, so they require a professional medical care in the first weeks of their lives. Research results have also indicated foster parents' positive motivation to professional fostering, an undisputed enrichment that this occupation brings their entire families and a satisfaction resulting from the meaningfulness of their work. The author believes that the institute of short-term foster care is undoubtedly very beneficial for a certain category of
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The Comparison of the Foster Care in the Czech Republic with Selected European Countries
ALINOVÁ, Šárka
This bachelor thesis deals with the system of foster care in the Czech Republic, Norway, Austria, Slovakia and the United Kingdom and is divided into four chapters. The first part describes foster care in the Czech Republic. It also discusses the importance of the family for the child and particular forms of foster care. The second chapter concentrates on the functioning of the system of foster care and professional foster care. The third chapter presents the foster care across selected countries and final chapter provides an analysis of all these systems of foster care in the Czech Republic, Norway, Austria, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. The main objective is to compare and evaluate these systems and to propose measures that would improve the foster care in the Czech Republic.
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Advantages and disdvantages of the temporary foster care in the view of partakers - selected experts and applicants
URBANOVÁ, Magdalena
Abstract In the year 2000, an amendment about the social and legal protection of children was accepted. In this amendment, a special modification is anchored which enables a short-term foster care. For this type of substitute family care, the term ?temporary foster care? is used. The theoretical part is dedicated to the importance of the family, the transformation of the substitute family care, experience with temporary foster care abroad, positive consequences and risks of temporary foster care. In the introduction, there is a special chapter dedicated to the attachment, the importance of family and its influence on the child´s development. The chapter about experience with professional foster care in Slovakia follows. I chose this country because it has long-term experience with temporary foster care and its culture is very similar to the culture of our country. Then, two most important chapters follow. Their topics are positive causes of temporary foster care (in this chapter, three most important contributions of temporary foster care are mentioned) and seven risks of temporary foster care. The theoretical part of my thesis is closed by the chapter ?Theoretical Foundations and Suggestions of Explorational Research?. This part inspired the creation of the topics of the interviews. The aim of my thesis was to find out what the opinions of the respondents to the temporary foster care (it means workers from the organ for social and legal protection of children, psychologists, doctors, and applicants) are. To describe the positives and negatives of this form of substitute family care according to them. The interviews were led with specialists and temporary fosters. The specialists were chosen with the help of the director of the institute for children requiring immediate help, who arranged the contact to them. The other source was a worker for OSPOD, who mediated the contact to temporary fosters. For the collecting of data, I used the quantitative method, the technique of guided interviews. I evaluated the collected data by the approach of the thematic content analysis and so I created categories that were divided into two main groups: contributions and risks of temporary foster care. In the first category, I found out three basic contributions of temporary foster care: immediate placement of the child into a substitute family, establishing of the child´s emotional attachment to the foster mother and to other family members and preventing emotional deprivation. In the field of risks of temporary foster care, I was concerning with the question of interrupting the relation between the family members and the child from the parents? and ?siblings ´? point of view and also from the perspective of the child. The next question referred to the lack of temporary fosters and the succession of the long-term care for children. Then I wrote about the motivation of temporary fosters, the contact to the biological family, suitability for all children and also services for fosters ? preparatory courses and services of accompanying. In the next part of my thesis, in the chapter ?Discussion?, I think about the individual fields, especially about how these fields are linked together and how they influence and fill in each other. I finish my thesis with a conclusion, in which I briefly summarize the results. The aim of this thesis is to show what contributions and risks the system of temporary foster care can bring. Since this system is at the beginning of its functioning, it would be suitable to repeat this research in a certain period of time. Then, both the specialists and fosters had more experience and a lot of knowledge described here could be worked out more widely.
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The foster care of handicapped children
JEŽKOVÁ, Lucie
Substitute family care is a form of care for abandoned or orphaned children when a child is brought up by foster parents in an environment which is similar to a natural family environment. In the Czech Republic, there are various forms of substitute family care, mainly adoption and foster care. Arranging foster care means seeking children who are suitable for placement in foster care and finding correspondent foster parents for those children. There are few different groups of children acceptable for foster care. One of those groups includes children with handicap. Handicap means an obstacle, difficulty, disadvantage or unfavourable situation which ensues from a limited ability or even inability of an individual to assert as well as other people. The aim of this dissertation is to asses foster care situation abroad and to compare foster care for children with handicap in South Bohemia and Pilsner Regions. Based on the aim, two hypothesis were determined. The first one: Variability of different foster care forms in the Czech Republic is not optimal compared to abroad. The second one: Comparison results of data from both surveyed regions will not be fundamentally different. Secondary data analysis method was used for the survey. The data was acquied from available professional literature and foster family files from Foster Care Centre of South Bohemia County Council in České Budějovice and Pilsner County Council in Plzeň. Required data were gathered from foster parents' records and fostered children documentation from 2001 to 2005. The established aim was accomplished. The first hypothesis was confirmed. The second hypothesis was not confirmed. The survey established that some European countries have already introduced further forms or foster care, especially professional foster care. This form of foster care is not available in our country yet but as the interest to become foster parents decreases in the Czech Republic, professional foster care may be the solution of this situation. Furthermore, the survey established that there is hardly any difference among foster parents and fostered children in individual character in both counties. However, there is a distinctive difference in the amount of foster parents who accepted a child to foster care. The same situation arises in the amount of children placed in foster care. Contribution of this dissertation for the health and social section consists in a creation of statistics during the years 2001-2005 and in an estimate of characteristics of foster parents which can assist in searching for new foster parents.
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