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The Issue of Foster Care from the Perspective of Foster Parents and Accompanying Workers
JIRÁSKOVÁ, Aneta
The bachelor thesis deals with the issue of foster family care from the perspective of foster parents and the accompanying worker. The aim of the thesis was to find out what are the positives and negatives of cooperation between foster parents and accompanying organizations and to describe the experience of cooperation between accompanying workers and foster parents. The bachelor thesis has two parts. The theoretical part explains the basic concepts related to foster family care and its forms with emphasis on foster care. Family, its functions and types of families are defined, the concept of attachment, social and legal protection of children is explained. A relatively large space is devoted to foster care, its types and the process of mediation of FC. The last chapter covers the accompanying organisations for foster families, accompanying workers and the services provided by each organisation. In the practical part, qualitative research was conducted, using a semi-structured interview technique with foster parents and accompanying workers. Subsequently, the interviews are processed according to each communication partner. The research shows that the cooperation of foster parents with the AO is evaluated positively, a big role is played by the person of the accompanying worker, especially his personal qualities, the way of working and the overall approach and treatment with the family, because it is, together with the services provided, a decisive factor for the selection of the AO. In the conclusion of the thesis my main findings and the results I have achieved are summarized. I think that this thesis could be considered as a useful resource or information material that could serve future foster carers, accompanying workers as well as students in the field of social work. It could also be beneficial in improving awareness of foster care and accompanying organisations.
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Risk taking behavior in children from foster care
SPILKOVÁ, Tereza
This Bachelor thesis deals with the problems of behavioral disorders, mainly in the context of problematic behaviors related to seeking individual identity. The thesis focuses on adolescents who were accepted into substitute family care and don't have access to the information about their past or biological parents. The aim of the theoretical part was to establish a connection between placement of the child into substitute family care and the development of problematic behavior during adolescence. The theory focused on the identification of specifics of the early stay in institutional state care and the effects of missing information about one's origin, in relation to behavioral disturbances in adolescents. The research component of the work was based on collecting quantitative data from deep conversations which were focused on the context of the development of behavioral disorders in an adolescent male, who grew up in an adoptive family and didn't have available information about his origin or biological family.
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The Role of Assisted Contact in Foster Care in the Czech Republic
Hrnková, Veronika ; Krejčí, Jiří (advisor) ; Vrzáček, Petr (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the question of the role of assisted contact in the foster care in the Czech Republic. The aim of this work was to map the experience and attitude towards assisted contacts of all actors who participate in these contacts and the subsequent comparison of the obtained outputs with the valid legislation and methodical understanding of this issue. The diploma thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part of this thesis focuses on the explanation of the substitute family care system and its financing. Subsequently, it also focuses on the current legal regulation of children's contacts with biological relatives, the forms and intensity of contacts, and the definition of main actors of contacts and setting up contacts. The research part maps the experiences and attitudes of the actors of assisted contacts, their negative and positive experiences with setting up, the course of assisted contacts and cooperation with other institutions within one organization in the Karlovy Vary region. The research was conducted through qualitative research. Semi-structured interviews with all respondents were interpreted and compared with available legislation and developed methodologies. Keywords: substitute family care, assisted contacts, foster care by...
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Foster care and foster care for a temporary period (comparison of institutes)
Matuszczyková, Klára ; Frinta, Ondřej (advisor) ; Lederer, Vít (referee)
Foster care and foster care for a temporary period (comparison of institutes) Abstract The thesis focuses on the institutes of foster care and describes their different aspects It analyses the differences between the institutes as well as the specific features of foster care carried out by close relatives. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter describes both institutes from a theoretical point of view and explains their historical development. The second part deals with the human rights aspect, which focuses on principles like the best interests of the child and the right to family life. In particular, how they can be applied in foster care. The different approaches are interpreted in the context of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. The second chapter is devoted to all those involved. This is the part of the thesis in which the differences of entities depending on the type of care are revealed. The second chapter focuses on all stakeholders in foster care. The thesis discusses temporary foster parents and foster parents, including foster parents of kinship, and their differences in terms of training and entitlements. The chapter also includes an analysis of the terms transitional and crisis fostering. Socio-legal...
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The Limits of Social Work at the Authority for Social and Legal Protection of Children
VISTOŘÍN, Jakub
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to identify the limits of social work at the authority for social and legal protection of children followed up by description of various ways of coping up with these limitations. In order to achieve my set goal, I have made five interviews with people that work at the authority for social and legal protection of children. In terms of anonymity I decided to not state the place where I have made those interviews. Even though these social workers have methodology and are limited by legislation, there is a lot of ways to solve and cope with the limits, which are identified by the research part of this bachelor thesis. Income of this whole thesis can be getting whole new point of view or realizing that there are other options that can be brought to bear. This mentioned income could be proved useful either for informants that I made interviews with or any other professional in the same branch. On top of that I think that it can be even more interesting, seeing different approach from different department and potentially adjust the needed matter. Another fact, that is proving the option to help people, which are in this branch is the fact that I don't rely on numbers or statistics but human side of this job, on foundation which I have gotten by interview with a person that does the job same as a professional that can use this thesis to his advantage.
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Cooperation of Children's Homes in the South Bohemia Region with Authority for Social and Legal Protection of Children
ZELENKOVÁ, Vendula
The bachelor's thesis deals with the Cooperation of Children's Homes in the South Bohemia region with Authority for Social and Legal Protection of Children. The aim of bachelor's thesis is to find out how the Cooperation of Social Workers in Children's Homes with Authority for Social and Legal Protection of Children takes place. The thesis consists of theoretical and practical part. In the theoretical part of the work, I deal with the family, Authority for Social and Legal Protection of Children, substitute family care, institutional care and finally the Cooperation of Children's Homes with Authority for Social and Legal Protection of Children. The practical part of the work is devoted to the research of the Cooperation of selected Children's Homes in the South Bohemia Region with Authority for Social and Legal Protection of Children. Also, it deals with the main areas of Cooperation and the individual difficulties of this Cooperation. The research part of the thesis was implemented by using a qualitative form of research, an interview method, and a semi-structured interview. The interview was based on theoretical knowledge. The open coding in the subtext of the interview was used to evaluate the data. The sample consisted of six Children's Homes in the South Bohemia Region, who showed interest in participating in this thesis. Based on the research, the individual research questions and the aim of the thesis were answered. The results showed that the Cooperation of Children's Homes with Authority for Social and Legal Protection of Children is very individual, it always depends on the personality of a particular social worker. Although this Cooperation is not specified anywhere, it is still very important and should certainly not be considered as a mere formal approach.
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Význam doprovázejících organizací z pohledu pěstounů
JAHODOVÁ, Vendula
Bachelor thesis focuses to foster parent´s experiences with accompanying organizations. The goal of thesis is to describe this experince and identify factors affecting fosterparent´s attitude.Accompanying organization as supporting service should assure fosterparent´s leading through whole process of foster care. Besides they are able to assure services beyond what is required by law. In theoretical part, I´m focused on family, its role and attachment´s theory. Then I´m describing substitute family care, its forms and legislative framework. Foster care has its own chapter including history and types of care, foster parent´s rights, social security, mediation and foster care´s process. Next chapter is devoted to accompanying organizations, including legislative framework for social-juristic children protection assured by authorized person, examples of accompanying organizations in Southern Bohemia and standarts for social-juristic children protection assured by authorized persons. Through demi-structured interviews I gained informations by Group 1, Group 2 was engaged through questionnaire. Mind Map was used for interviews preparation, questionnaire processing and evaluation. Content analysis was used for interviews data´s processing.For questionnaire data´s processing was used basic descriptive statistics, especially frequency statistics. It follows from the research part of my work, that the key social worker plays an important role in relationship to accompanying organization, especially his competence, professionalism and personality. Sometimes specific social worker can be a decisive factor in creating of attitude to accompanying organizations. Most of foster parents have a good experince with accompanying organizations. It follows from the research, that every accompanying organzation provides different range and quality of services. This research can be useful for social field students and for social workers. It can serve future foster parent´s for problematic orientation, eventual with accompanying organization´s choice.
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The foster care for temporary period of time from the point of view a foster parent
NOVÁKOVÁ, Pavla
This bachelor thesis deals with the foster care for a temporary period from the perspective of a professional foster caregiver. It focuses on motives leading to the performance of foster caring, secondly on foster parents´ perception of the foster care for temporary period and coping with the departure of the child to the following care. The work is divided into two parts. The first theoretical part deals with the general terms of substitute family care, especially the foster care for temporary period and personal qualities of a foster parent. In the practical part, eleven interviews were done with the temporary-period foster caregivers, who have got the experience of at least one end of placement of a child and fostering for at minimum two years. For finding out results, in-depth narrative interviews were done, these were subjected to interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).
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Specifics of education of children in foster care
KRŠKOVÁ, Ludmila
The main focus of the thesis is upbringing and education of the children in the substitute family care. This thesis is divided into theoretical part and practical part. The theoretical part is describing types of the substitute family care in the Czech Republic, institutional care, perils of the development of the children in the substitute family care, consequences of the missing family care and cooperation of the substitute family with school. The practical part is focused on the important factors, supporting factors and difficult situations, which may be sensed by parents and teachers during upbringing and education of the children in the substitute family care. Then it is focused on the cooperation of the substitute families with teachers and readiness of the teachers to educate the children in the substitute family care. There are three case studies engaged to the practical part. Mainly, they are dealing with the process of coming of child to family, upbringing and operating of the child in school.
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The role of the social worker in adoption
DOUBKOVÁ, Anna
The goal of thesis was to acquaint the reader with the adotion proces. I described in work forms of substitute family care, roles of the social worker in the adoption proces. In the first part I specified the meaning of substitue family care and what it involves. In the second part I meantioned the roles of the social workers in this proces. The third part is about the network of services. In the last part you can find, how the adoption proces ganges in the Czech Republic.
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