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Men on parental leave from the perspective of social workers.
VIKTOROVÁ, Romana
The thesis focuses on the issue of men on the parental leave from the point of view of the social workers whose profession brings them to these men most often. The social workers are able to assess the extent of the fathers involvement in the everyday care of the minor children and by that adequately evaluate the appropriateness of man's use of the parental leave. Our society puts emphasis on the gender equality and the child care is now being a matter of both parents. Anyhow, due to the gender stereotypes still existing in the society, different attitude towards females and males has developed. Even though such division does not always match setting, interests or needs of the particular individual, people are often being misled by the gender identity. The social workers should take into account the individuals characteristics, abilities and opinion, before succumbing to the notion of the natural behaviour. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to find out how men on the parental leave are being perceived by the social workers focused on the family and children. Based on the research, the questions should be answered, if the attitudes of the social workers towards men on the parental leave are stereotyped, if the social workers are opened to the alternatives of the parental care or if they support the traditional distribution of roles in the society. To get the needed data, the qualitative research and the technique of the in-depth interview had been used. The research group consisted of 7 social workers focused on family and children from České Budějovice. The research showed that the respondents are mostly positive about men on the parental leave. Although they find it less usual, they do not see any problem in men taking care of the children. All the respondents agreed on the importance of the agreement between the parents and on the necessity of acceptance of different opinions.
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Importance of Children's Centres influencing an active involvement of the family in the remediation process
KARAS, Martin
The present thesis is concerned with the Importance of Children's Centres influencing an active involvement of the family in the remediation process, a theme so far unexplored in this respect. The objective of the thesis is to design suitable starting points of an individual care plan of families at risk which contribute to returning the child to his or her biological family in the remediation process by way of social rehabilitation. This is fulfilled with respect to partial objectives that reveal the influence of social and pathological effects, partial characteristics of remediation of the family and services rendered, and on the basis of these findings, the author identifies the ways, methods and techniques of health and social work that are applied by Children's Centres in relation to an active involvement of parents in a social rehabilitation process. In addition, the present thesis determines aspects of the multidisciplinary help that assist in participation in the support provided, or, as the case may be, aspects that prevent such participation. The thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and methodological. The theoretical part is engaged in the family as such, its functions, risk factors, the most common types of parental disorders in relation to a family at risk, families at risk, the contemporary status of care of children at risk. The thesis delineates in detail the forms of threats to children and the key risk factors influencing parents with respect to participation in solving the problem per se. The last chapter scrutinizes the problem of family remediation, its characteristics and stages. Further, the last chapter focuses on activities of "Dětské centrum Jihočeského kraje, o.p.s." [Children's Centre of the South Bohemian Region, public service company] in Strakonice and the social rehabilitation service the Centre provides - ways, methods and techniques of health and social work with families at risk. The content of the methodological part gives an explanation of the importance of the Children's Centre influencing an active involvement of parents in the remediation process using social rehabilitation, by applying the method of a semi-conducted interview as a primary technique of data collection. The data acquired are analysed and interpreted in Chapter eight. Chapter nine presents starting points for an individual care plan that serve, in compliance with the rules enumerated, as a functional tool for achieving an active involvement of parents in the social rehabilitation process. The final chapter concludes and further clarifies the problems at issue.
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Social Work With The Family In The Risk
Hamplová, Monika ; Krahulcová, Beáta (advisor) ; Nová, Monika (referee)
This thesis is called Social Work With Family In The Risk. The crisis has been uderstood as a crisis of the family as the institution in nowadays. Thesis is devided into three parts. In the first I¨m describing the baisics of social work with the family. Then I'm describinf definitions and functions of a familly accroding to opinions of several authors. There are also being open topics about homoparentality and crisis of the family in 21. century. Separate chapter is about theories of the family, being described by the run of differenet times and events which were forming the statute of the family till nowadays. The aim of the research part was to find out what are the opinions about chosen factors which are influencing the crisis of family. The research part was done by using a method of questionnaire. The research was done on the Theological faculty of Jan Hus at Charles University in Prague during the April in the year 2017, responded by the group of thirty students. About this topic I found democratic and open minded, students are aware of modern technologies are influencing the course of a family life. There has been also found out that individualism is not that common in families and mostly prefered are interests of the whole family than family members separately, what shows some signs of...
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The specifics of the Improvement of the Family Life Provided to Families witch Children up to Three Months of Age
Prokopová, Klára ; Cimrmannová, Tereza (advisor) ; Stretti, Sylvie (referee)
In the first part of the thesis I summarize the theoretical knowledge of the areas that concern the family, its functions and its importance for a child. I pay attention to basic legal norms and also social work with family. I focus on the concept of the improvement of the family. I continue to a qualitative survey in order to complement the theoretical framework of the specifics of family redevelopment of families with children under three months of age. I have been working with social workers and they agreed on many characters of the improvement of the family, that is provided for the selected target group. There was drawn up a list of organizations that provide improvement of the family in the area of the capital city Prague. These organizations provide a service for the selected target group. This list can also be used in practice. Qualitative investigation confirmed that the improvement of the family is irreplaceable in social services market. From the responses of social workers was showed that in the future there will increase the demand for this service. The situation of the traditional family has been changing and parents feel greater pressure regarding the performance of individual roles in society.
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Specific Methods of Social Work with Families in the Course of the Exercise of Parental Responsibility after Divorce
BALOUN, Ingrid
The diploma thesis deals with the specific methods of social work with a family during the post-divorce child custody trial. The goal of my thesis is to find out what methods are applied by social workers during their work with families at child custody trial. I stated the research inquiry as follows: what are the barriers identifed by social workers during their work with families undergoing a post-divorce child custody trial? As for the empirical part of the thesis, I adopted the method of qualitative research in the form of partially structured interviews with social workers. The interviewed sample consists of twelve social workers who were at the time engaged in post-divorce child custody trials. Two main critierions were set for selecting the twelve interviewees - the first criterion being that the social workers must be currently working with families during a post-divorce child custody trial, and the second being that all the social workers have been working for an institution for social and legal protection of children for at least one year. The research has brought the following outcomes: the social workers in question mostly adopt the task-oriented approach as well as the anti-oppressive approach. During a conversation with clients the most commonly used method is active listening. With children, it would be the drawing method. On my way to reaching the goal of my thesis I identified a social workers related problem: half the interviewees did not know what methods there are in the field of social work. Most interviewees said that the biggest barrier in their work is the client who is under the influence of alcohol or drugs and also one that is aggressive. The thesis identified some demerits of social workers as well as their seniors, for instance the failing to follow the norms, and could, hopefully help them to realize these flaws and retrieve them in the future.
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Typology of services dealing with a care for families and their significance
MICHÁLKOVÁ, Petra
A topic of the bachelor thesis is "Typology of services dealing with a care for families and their significance". The care for families with children is currently a hot topic that affects the entire social system, from lawmakers to client families which attend NGOs. Just NGOs provide a large amount of the services dealing with the family issues. The bachelor thesis theoretically and practically deals with aspects concerning services for families with children. A goal of the thesis was to map the services for families with children in Plzeň and České Budějovice and to compare an offer and demand for these services in chosen towns. Quantitative and qualitative research strategies were chosen to meet objectives. Through a questionnaire there were obtained data about organizations providing services for the families with children in organizations towns of České Budějovice and Plzeň for the cooperation. The basic sample for the qualitative research consisted of managers from organizations in České Budějovice and Plzeň or their representatives. A semi-standardized interview was conducted with both target groups. Before the beginning of the research I set following research questions: Does the current range of offered services for the families with children in Plzeň correspond to the demand for them? Does the current offer of services for the families with children in České Budějovice correspond to the demand for those services? Is the offer of services for the families with children in Plzeň greater than in České Budějovice? What kind of services for the families with children are missing in Plzeň? What kind of services for the families with children are missing in České Budějovice? The research showed that there are more organizations providing services for the families with children in Plzeň than in České Budějovice, but the demand is greater than offer yet. The question of the offer and demand for the services for the families with children is currently in both towns sufficient, but representatives from all organizations expressed their concern for the future in connection with a constantly increasing number of the client families compared to previous years. Results of the thesis include a typology of the services which are missing in the towns and so they can contribute to an origination of new organizations able to cover and ensure a complexity of the services for the families with children in Plzeň and České Budějovice.
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Work with the Client´s Family Social Services
PITKOVÁ, Zuzana
My thesis work deals with working with the family of a social services client. Social services can be defined as a set of activities to provide assistance to persons in unfavourable social situations. The main purpose of social services is to preserve human dignity and to encourage the given persons to pursue activities that do not protract or worsen their social situation (in other words, to prevent their social exclusion). People may find themselves in a difficult social situation for various reasons (e.g. because of age or poor health status). The most frequent social services users are seniors and persons with disabilities. With regard to the fact that in the future I would like to work in a job treating the above-mentioned target groups, I focused on them in my thesis. I suppose that mutual cooperation between a family and the staff in the social care providing facility can have a positive affect on the client himself. For this reason, I conceived my thesis in a broader context - a family, a social services user and a social services provider. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part describes all the important aspects related to a family, social services and basic characteristics of the Blansko district. In the practical part the target of the thesis was stated. I wanted to learn what problems most families face (not just prior to placing the client to a social services facility, but also in the course of the stay), what their experience with the facility is and whether they are informed about all available social services offered in the area. To compile the thesis quantitative research was applied. I used the method of questioning, the technique of structured interviews with family members of senior home clients and persons with mental disabilities attending a daycare stationary. The thesis could serve as information material on social services not only for families involved in my research, but also for the general public - to provide information about availability of social services for seniors and persons with mental disabilities in the Blansko district in the South Moravian Region.
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Services in support of a functional family and
MORAVČÍKOVÁ, Jitka
The work deals with services for support of functional family. As an example of realization there is described the offer of the services of the maternal center Sluníčko at Farní charita Týn nad Vltavou. The theoretical part deals with current situation of families with children up to all of five their most frequent problems which they can run up against when managing the parental role. The study also focus on leisure time activities for support of the family. Practical part contains interviews with regular visitors of the maternal center Sluníčko. The goal of this probe is to find out if the offer of the maternal center Sluníčko is able to react to the most common problems and obstacles. Due to them the visitors of the maternal center Sluníčko can get to an adverse situation that threatens their parental role and leads to an isolation from the surrounding world.
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Divorce situations of families with children of school age from the point of view of specialists dealing with divorce problems.
MIKULOVÁ, Radka
The number of divorced families has been continually increasing and the Czech society accepts such families with dependent children tolerantly. Nowadays we know that a family with both parents but full of violence is much worse for children than living with a single parent. Psychosocial development of children growing in incomplete families thus does not have to be marked negatively. Despite that, in most cases a breakdown of a marriage with children is perceived as a hard and frustrating situation. And all the involved parties need to cope, particularly with the failure and loss in their lives. The objective of the thesis was to map attitudes of workers of the department of social and legal protection of children, marriage and family counselors, crisis and emergency centers and other professionals to the divorce situation of families with children in school age. Partial objectives of the thesis included mapping of opinions of the workers about the shared custody, experience of professionals with family mediation and determination whether the professionals are offered possibilities of further education. The views of the professionals were collected by means of a questionnaire survey conducted in January, February and March. 415 questionnaires were distributed at random. The research group consisted of 99 returned questionnaires. The individual categories of professionals did not demonstrate any significant differences in their attitudes to the shared custody. Divorce mediation was viewed as a suitable method for resolution of family disputes. The research has also shown that the professional community is offered sufficient opportunities of further education. According to the responding professionals, incomplete (divorced) families are capable of ensuring successful development of the children. The professionals concurred particularly on the opinion that each divorce situation needs to be approached individually.
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Project of a non-profit organisation providing social-active service for families with children
GARAIOVÁ, Veronika
I described topics related to the title of the thesis in its theoretical part and in that way I made a comprehensive survey focused on the social fieldwork in families. The first target of the thesis was - to learn the experience of some chosen non-profit-making organizations which deliver socially activating services to families with children. The qualitative research, the method of questioning and the technique of semi-standardized interview were used for achieving my objective. The same kinds of research, method and technique were used for achieving my second objective, i.e. - to map the status of delivering socially activating services to families with children in the South Bohemia region which realize saving of families. I carried out two kinds of interviews; the first one - in non-profit-making organizations; the second one - with some OSPOD{\crq}s women-workers in České Budějovice. The set aims were fulfilled. Then, on the base of the detected data, I formulated my findings. My findings confirmed that the experience of organizations which deliver socially activating services to families with children is consistent. Employees of non-governmental non-profit-making organizations indicated that the functioning of their organizations is successful and that they cope with their purposes and aims. The women-workers of OSPOD concurred in their statements that the kind of work with families seemed beneficial and the women-workers were open for cooperation with organizations in that field, which is an important aspect for those organizations. The current situation in delivering socially activating services to families with children in the South Bohemia region is not unsatisfactory, but it is not fully cowered yet. There is no organization fully focused on the saving of families, especially in some border areas of the region. My interviews contributed to the creation of my project design of a non-governmental, non-profit-making organization. On the base of the project design socially activating services (fieldwork form) for families with children in the South Bohemia region could be realized (under the law No. 108/2008 of Collection of Law {--} Social Services Act). In this way the project is the practical output of my thesis and it can be used for the creating of an organization focused on the saving of families in the South Bohemia region. The project and its implementation expect cooperation with experts qualified in that field. If the project is realized, the number of socially activating services in the South Bohemia region will increase and the only organization focused wholly on the saving of families will be created.
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