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The volunteer programs that support child in adoption or foster care
Hladíková, Alena ; Komárková, Tereza (advisor) ; Sedláčková, Daniela (referee)
The aim of the thesis Volunteer programs that support child in adoption or foster care is to monitor the offer of volunteer programs for children in adoption foster care in the Czech Republic and to show possibilities of support which volunteer program could bring to children, including demonstrations of experience from similar programs abroad. The theoretical part of thesis describes the foster care system with respect to the child's needs and ways of support that are available to them in both professional and volunteer sphere. Emphasis is placed on the role of people who accompany a child on his way from the biological family to foster families, including important relationships and ties, which child lose during his way. It will also explain the idea and values of volunteering as unpaid voluntary work, including the typology of programs focusing on children and the ways volunteers can help to improve their situation. Practically oriented empirical part shows the concrete experiences of the actors from the volunteer program supporting children in foster care by the interviews. This program is organized by the volunteer center and respondents are volunteers, parents and children involved in this program, including the head of the program, through which the program was created. At the end of this...
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Possibilities of increasing interest in foster care in the Czech Republic
Hadrbolcová, Žaneta ; Angelovská, Olga (advisor) ; Vlčková, Kamila (referee)
For most people, family represents a place where they feel safe and loved. But not everyone is lucky enough to have a place like this, to have a functional family. If the biological family does not work as it should and a baby is threatened in some way, the state has several options to help the child. If there are solvable problems in the family, the state can try to help it by various interventions to improve the situation. But if these actions do not help and the child is forced to leave this family, it is necessary to ensure alternative environment for baby. The child can either be placed in institutional care, or to substitutional family care. Considering the shortcomings of institutional care, various forms of substitutional care are mainly supported. Probably the best known form of substitutional care is adoption. In the case of adoption, baby becomes the member of new family and relationships between child and his biological family vanishes. This form is only possible for a small percentage of abandoned children, because most of them still has some kind of relationship with biological family. For these children, there is an alternative, namely foster care. In the case of foster care, child grows up in a foster family, foster parents care for him every day, but the child still has a...
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Long term foster-care and the temporary one - psychological aspects of the foster-parent view and child's view.
Župová, Veronika ; Šturma, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Šulová, Lenka (referee)
This thesis primarily deals with foster care. The readers are acquainted with the basic informations from the topic. Further on it deals with the issue of creating connections with foster parents. It points out differences and permanency of the realionship between the long term foster care and the temporary foster care. It outlines the specifics of psychological aspects in both forms of foster care on the side of the child and the foster parent himself. In the second part the qualitative proposal of research is submitted which is focused on children's experience with the foster care. It is trying to point out subjective view of children in their positive and negative form, due to the foster care, emotional anchoring in foster family and last but not least the children's view of transitions between families and problems connected to it. One of the outcomes of this research is to create hypotheses which will be used as a support for next research projects. Keywords Foster care, professional foster care, long-term foster care, temporary foster care, child, foster family, attachment.
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Prague Care of Orphans and Abandoned Children in the First Half of the 20th Century
Fremrová, Květa ; Čechurová, Jana (advisor) ; Rákosník, Jakub (referee)
The master thesis investigates the care of orphans and abandoned children paying special attention to how the care was executed in Prague in the 1st half of the 20th century. First, the thesis describes the general development of care of these children and of legislation. It then focuses on Prague social care of children. The orphans and abandoned children could be provided either in foster families (this form of care was more frequent) or in orphanages. Prague children were often placed outside of Prague to the so called family colonies, where the foster families were concentrated and where it was easier to control the quality of care those children attained in foster families. The other option was care in orphanages. Those could be established by the city, by the church or by an independent charity association. For each option I chose one Prague orphanage as an example. I also tried to describe the everyday life in these institutions. The last chapter focuses on the period view on advantages and disadvantages of both forms of care. Keywords: orphans, abandoned children, social care, Prague, children's homes, foster care, family colonies
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Alternative(Substitutional) family care - development at newly defined legal environment
Palusková, Jana ; Šturma, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Mertin, Václav (referee)
This bachelor's thesis describes the topic of foster care and its development in the newly defined law system. At the beginning it shows the importance of attachement, which is based on the basic needs of the child. It charted the development and types of attachement. The other part focuses on the topic of pathology of attachement. It is briefly defined terms of deprivation and separation. The next section shows forms of treatment processes in cases of deprivation and separation. In cases of deprivation is a given treatment process in the form of adoption and long-term care. It includes a basic definition of these terms and changes resulting from the new modification of the legal definition of this issue. In the section describing the healing process in case of separation is defined the foster care for a temporary period. Here it is pointed to process of attachement, interruption, or its transfer to another, new caregiver. It follows research proposal which can be the basis for subsequent studies. It is a comparison of the formation and sustain of emotional relationship in long-term foster care cases and in cases of foster care for a temporary period. There is an effort to highlight the complexity of the re-formation of attachement and its transferring to a new caregiver. In less ideal cases, the...
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Problems of Socialization of Children in Foster Care in Secondary Schools
Převorovská, Michaela ; Klusáček, Jan (advisor) ; Geissler, Hana (referee)
This thesis is focused on the process of socialization of childen growing up in foster care families at secondary schools. The aim is to describe the process of socialization in two main social groups for these chidren - foster family and school class - and describe some specific behaviour of these children in the process of socialization, their perceptions of foster families and the school community. By qualitative interviews was examined socialization proces, from the perspective of foster parents, classroom teachers and children. The study compares three cases of foster family, successful and unsuccessful socialization by the subjective view of participants. The research results suggest that these children adapt to a new environment with varying success, their group beviour is different and sometimes deviate significantly from their environment, which may be due to lack of family background and security of biological families
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Kinship care from the view of care givers
Krajtlová, Kristýna ; Pazlarová, Hana (advisor) ; Matoušek, Oldřich (referee)
The diploma thesis discusses the issue of kinship foster care, its specifics, strengths and weaknesses. It examines the views of grandparents, aunties, uncles and other relatives on their role in foster care and the children's life. The theoretical part is focused on basic topics in foster care, views on foster care and the development of children living in foster care. The practical part of the thesis is focused on semi-structured interviews with care givers which should tell us facts about their views of foster care, why children are placed in their family, practical problems and help which they need. There are also casuistries of foster care families.
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Comparison of Institutes of Spare Parental Care from Terms of the Needs of the Child and the Caregivers
Růžičková, Miroslava ; Křížová, Eva (advisor) ; Janečková, Hana (referee)
The thesis titled "Comparison of institutes of spare parental care from terms of the needs of the child and the caregivers" is focusing on the issue of spare parental care and caring of other person than a parent from the view of the needs of children and the caregivers. There are two strikingly similar institutions in the practice which have their own characteristics. The aim of my thesis is to describe, explain and specify differences these institutes and to show how it is accepted by caregivers. For specifics of long- term foster care and other individuals in this thesis is considered mainly a way of material security of the state, the method of cooperation with the non-profit sector, law institutes, experienced caregivers and the issue of cooperation with original family. In the empirical part was conducted quantitative research through a questionnaire that focused on the experiences and skills of the caregivers. The work also deals with quantitative research when caregivers share their views and experiences. The main finding is that the persons taking care of the foster care institute have greater knowledge about the new rights and obligations arising from the amendment Law of social and legal protection of children. Foster parents are more often missing general information about other forms of...
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