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Preparation of Children for Leaving the Children's Home
BICEROVÁ, Markéta
This bachelor thesis called Preparing Children for Leaving the Children's Home deals with the preparation of children growing up in children's homes for their independent leaving of the institution and their preparation for life in general, on the part of the educators. In addition, this bachelor thesis is concerned with the life stories of children who have already left the children's home. The main goal of this work is to discover how children are prepared for their independent life and whether, from the children's point of view, this preparation on the part of the children's home has been sufficient. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part describes the institutional education and its legislative frame, the children's home, the rights and duties of the children placed there and the whole process of leaving the children's home. Finally, some projects supporting the children who leave the children's home are listed. The practical part of the thesis deals with researching the preparation of children for leaving the children's home, both from the educators' and the children's point of view. The research group consisted of nine educators working in unnamed children's homes in South Bohemia and four adults who grew up in a children's home. The research methods used were the method of qualitative research, the interview method and the technique of semi-structured interview. For evaluating the data the ATLAS.ti software was used, open coding was performed followed by data categorization. On the basis of this research, both the individual research questions and the goal of the work were answered. As emerged from the research, the individuals leaving the children's home just after reaching their full age or at a very young age have problems entering their independent life, mainly in the area of finance, housing, employment, integration into society and creating social relationships. In spite of the intensive preparation taking place in children's homes, it is difficult for the leaving individuals to succeed in the society at such a young age without any help of a close person, who could be helpful in solving problematic situations but also in solving everyday issues. The findings of this bachelor thesis can be used both by institutional and protective education workers and by the students of health and social studies and pedagogy. It could also be a useful aid for OSPOD workers and other specialists or the non-professional public who are interested in these issues.
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Professional orientation of children - clients of Children's home
PRŮCHOVÁ, Kristýna
As the topic of my bachelor thesis, I chose professional orientation of children from a children's home. Studying high school and then choosing a profession is part of everyone's life. Professional orientation shapes and develops the professional goals of a young person. The aim of the bachelor thesis was to determine the degree of motivation of children from children's homes and the influence of social workers on the professional orientation of children. The thesis consists of two units. The theoretical part describes institutional care, children's homes, professional orientation and perspective orientation. The practical part is a qualitative research survey. Based on questionnaires and interviews, I try to answer basic research questions: Are children from children's homes interested in high school? How do children choose high school? What kind of tools do social workers of the children's home use to motivate children?
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Prevention of risk behavior in adolescents in children's homes
JINDROVÁ, Olga
The main topic of this Bachelor's thesis is the high-risk behaviour of children and youth within the institutional education. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part introduces the basic characteristics of the high-risk behaviour as well as the socially pathological phenomena of the early adolescence. It introduces both ground information about preventing such behaviour and preventive activities used by institutes in this area. It further describes families and children upbringing in relation with the genesis of the socially pathological phenomena and gives basic information about institutional education. All information given is based on vocational sources. In the practical part important questions connected with the research are established, resulting in a description of specific cases of such behaviour in the children's home in Horní Planá, as well as in an analysis of preventive measures taken in this institution and the reflection of behaviour and its prevention of the children's home. Furthermore, an attention is given to the methodology - to the characteristics of the specific children's home, establishing of the research group, methods of data collecting, ethical limits of the research, the way of data processing, and the final evaluation of the results. All will be based on the main hypotheses of the thesis.
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The Approach of Carers to Children in Children's Homes
BEZROUK, Antonín
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to determine the degree of background and emotional careprovided to children in a children's home. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the role of the educator and the requirements for the necessity of empathy and active listening. Subsequently, the practical part on the basis of semi-structured interviews describes the real state and degree of communication. The core is therefore an insight into the daily work of the educator. From the empirical part, the fact arises that despite the increasing administrative burden and other activities, the level of helpfulness, empathy and active listening is inviolable. The time devoted to children is not at the expense of other activities and the care is limited only by the time possibilities within the day.
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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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How Children in Foster Homes Perceive Their Life Situation
SEKALOVÁ, Eva
In my bachelor's thesis, I deal with the issue of children placed in care institutions. The aim of the work is to find out the current view of children from children's homes, whether they feel their social disadvantage with respect to peers in the school environment, on social networks and during social events. The work is divided into the theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part describes the functioning of the children's home, as a facility for institutional education, the area of social disadvantage and its impact on children at risk, and then discusses the approaches of social work related to the issue. In the practical part, a quantitative research strategy using a method of questioning is applied. The collection of research data took place in August to September 2019 using an anonymous questionnaire, to which 112 children, aged 7-18, from 11 children's homes from the South Bohemian, South Moravian and Moravian-Silesian regions responded. After processing and statistical evaluation of the data by the Chi-square method, applying a test of independence in the contingency table, my hypothesis was not confirmed, as only two out of fifteen questions showed a negative relationship between children's stay in the children's home and the behaviour of the environment. As a result, children from children's homes, in most cases, do not subjectively perceive their social disadvantage. This bachelor's thesis can provide an up to date information material for children's home management and it could also be used as a basis for further research on the subjective perception of children being placed in institutional care.
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Hostitelská péče u dětí s nařízenou ústavní výchovou
DEJOVÁ, Natálie
The aim of my diploma thesis was to map the experience of employees of children's homes and further of children's homes with a school and host care. The partial goals were to find out the benefits and risks of the implementation of host care for children with compulsory institutional education. The theoretical part explained in detail the principle of functioning of social and legal protection of children in host care, the system of institutional and substitute host care, differences in the life of a child in a children's home and children's home with a school and the principle of host care. In the practical part, the results of my research were clearly processed, and the research question was answered, which was focused on the view of the workers of children's homes and children's homes with a school and host care. Partial research questions found out what positives and what negatives host care can have for children with compulsory institutional education. A qualitative research strategy was chosen for the research of this thesis and questioning with the technique of semi-structured interview was chosen as the method. The data analysis was performed by the clustering method. Subsequently, two other methods were used; the method of simple enumeration and the method of contrasts and comparisons. The research files were selected by deliberate selection. The research group consisted of 5 principals, 3 social workers and 5 educators of children's homes and children's homes with a school meeting the selection criteria. My research shows that the experience of host care is for all workers positive, even though everyone is aware of certain risks that host care entails. However, they agreed that the positives of host care prevailed. The main benefit of host care, as can be deduced from my research, is the possibility for the child to see and experience the functioning of a normal family within host care. The main risk of host care may include disproportionate attachment of the child to the host provider or vice versa and the associated disappointment of the child or host providers. The results of my research will serve as acknowledgment to all employees of institutional facilities who participated in my research, and the brochure created, will also serve to increase the awareness of people who are interested in this issue.
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Risky Behavior as a Reason for Placement to Institutional Care
ČADKOVÁ, Karolína
Bachelor thesis named Risky behavior as a reason for placement to institutional care offers insight to the issues of placing individuals to institutional care in Czech Republic. Thesis is divided into a several parts. In theoretical part deals with definition of risky behavior and its types. Then thesis describes family, its environment and risk factors. Also thesis has definition of institutional care and its kinds. Relapse of risky behavior is also part of the thesis. The goal of thesis was description of risky behavior, that is the reason of placement individuals to institutional care. Another goal was find out risky behavior, that individuals experiencing during institutional care and find out reasons of relapse back in institutional care. For empirical part was chosen method of quality research through secondary data analysis, namely content file documentation analysis of children placed to facilities as Children's home, Elementary school, School canteen in Horní Planá in 1999 - 2019. Overall were analyzed 344 files of children. Results were processed an open coding method. Through the research supposed to be found out primarily, which kinds of risky behavior are the most common reason for placement to institutional care and what effect have environment of family, eventually what kinds of risky behavior are children experiencing in institutional care and how high ratio is relapse of risky behavior besides other reasons of returns to institutional care. According to results we may say that children's risky behavior is the most common reason to placement to institutional care, also big part is bad family situation. Increase of risky behavior was after placement to the children's home significantly reduced. Big influence for risky behavior is children's peer group. Research refuted relapse of risky behavior as reason for return to institutional care, in the case of concerned to the children's home. Results of research may be used by employees of children's homes and another institutional facilities for making preventive programs and work with risky behavior inside the institutions.
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Comparison of childcare placed in children´s home and foster care in free time activities
SEMORÁD, Jiří
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to compare leisure activities of children in children's homes and children in foster care. The first part is focused on specifying of the term foster care and its comparison with other forms of substitutional family care. Furthermore, the thesis analyses systems of institutional care and the determination of children's homes in this category. Subsequently, there is an analysis of children development categories belonging to the respondents of my research. The closure of the theoretical part deals with ways of spending free time and the basic familiarisation with leisure activities. The research is made with the method of individual semi-structured interview, where the answers of respondents from foster care and children's home are analysed. Lastly, the thesis summarises and compares differents that are used in children's homes and foster care within leisure activities.
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The meaning of life of children living in a children's home
PETRŮ, Barbora
Theoretical part focuses on children's Home as an institution and on social work in children's Home. It describes possible causes for placing children in constitutional care and socially-legal children protection. It also describes family and related di- sorders of parenthood and families. It's mentioned here the meaning of life and questions about the purpose of existence as viewed by Viktor E. Frankl. The theore- tical part characterizes working in direct client care and children age categories, es- pecially preschool age, school age and adolescence. The deprivation of child related to placement in children's home is also described at the end of theoretical part. Practical part concentrates on qualitative research with the goal of mapping ideas of children about life from the view of caretakers. It processes structured inter- views with open questions of four participants, then it separates the children ideas into age groups, where the reader can even see how the ideas have evolved with age.
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