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Comparison of temporary foster/professional care in the Czech and Slovak Republics
Potužníková, Michaela ; Kotrusová, Miriam (advisor) ; Klusáček, Jan (referee)
The substitute family care is a very important part of family policy, which gives the child the opportunity to grow up in a family where its needs are met. One of the types of the substitute care is the temporary foster care which is the aim of this bachelor thesis. The thesis describes the institutional conditions of family care systems for a temporary period in the Czech and Slovak Republics, consequently the systems are compared. In the Czech Republic, the institute is called the foster care for a temporary period, in Slovakia, the institute is called the professional families. The significance of both institutes is to meet the individual needs of the child through daylong care of foster parents. Also, raising the child in a family environment is important, individual learns to create ties there. The aim of the thesis is to compare the systems of temporary foster care in the Czech and Slovak Republics and to uncover factors that cause similarities and differences. The main analytical approach in thesis is a comparative method. Predominantly analyzed are public policy documents and other secondary data.
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Temporary Foster Care in the Czech Republic and its Situation as a Result of Political Changes
Hadrbolcová, Žaneta ; Angelovská, Olga (advisor) ; Klusáček, Jan (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Temporary foster care in the Czech republic and its situation as a result of legislative changes" deals with current situation of foster care after amendment of Act of Child protection, which came into force in 2013. First part is aimed to explaining terms, which are necessary for the work. Descriptive part deals with foster care description, because foster care and temporary foster share a lot of characteristics. Descriptive part is also aimed to the temporary foster care. There is explained, what this type of family care means and who is designed for. It also defines, which condition must interested person fulfill, to become foster parent. Insignificant part of the work are also financial conditions of both types of foster care. Analytical part is aimed to foster parents and professionals opinions. Essential part is these people opinion about the amendment. It is researched if the situation after amendment was improved, and if conditions of foster care are now better or worse. Another part is aimed to opinions of temporary foster care. There is discovered if it was well established, if there is place for improvement and if there is a lot of people, who are interested in temporary foster care.
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Temporary foster care - Foster child's adaptation process and transition to adoptive family.
ČURDOVÁ, Hana
In my thesis I deal with temporary foster care where the aim of the thesis is to analyse the process of child's introduction and transition into the care of future adoptive parents and to map out the experience and opinions of both future adoptive and temporary foster parents. The partial objective is to identify the opportunities and risks of this process, focusing on the subjective experience of the research participants. In order to reach the set target a method of qualitative research was chosen, namely an interview, specifically the technique of an unstructured interview. The research was divided into two parts. In the first part of the research interviews were conducted with future adoptive parents and in the second part with temporary foster parents who had at least two children in their care. For evaluation of results a cluster analysis was used. The results of the research show that future adoptive parents have considerable reservations about the process of getting acquainted with the child; their experience regarding the actual transition of the child into their care vary. Moreover they perceive the impact of this process on the child rather negatively. Further, the research shows that most temporary foster parents do not have a negative experience with introduction and transition of the child into the care of future adoptive parents. However, the whole research has revealed many pitfalls in this process. Intended merit of this thesis lies in the fact that the results can be used as a source of information for social workers, prospective adoptive parents, temporary foster parents and for staff of support organizations or general public.
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Temporary foster care from the perspective of social workers
MRŇOUSOVÁ, Dana
This bachelor thesis deals with the temporary foster care from the perspective of social workers in the bodies responsible for social and legal protection of children in the South Moravian region. The theoretical part is focused on definition of temporary foster care, scope of activities and competences of social workers in the bodies responsible for social and legal protection of children and advantages and disadvantages of this type of care. The point of this thesis was to find out social workers´ attitudes to the institute, which experience they went through with it, which are benefits and difficulties according to their opinion and what they would change about the institute. Their estimations were gained by the interviews. These answers were essential because of the goal fulfilment of this thesis. It was used qualitative research in the form of half-structured questions and their subsequent evaluation was made by the method of open coding. The research points to positive relation of social workers to temporary foster care institute. However, the social workers often have objections to this institute. Giving an example they would change judicial period, system unification and many further facts.
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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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Temporary Foster Care in Comparison with the Infant Care Centres in the Czech Republic
DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Jana
The bachelor thesis deals with temporary foster care in comparison with the infant care centers in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part consists of child development by the age of 3, definitions of basic terms, the history of alternative family care and institutional care, legislative, the definition of temporary foster care and infant care centers, and discussion. The goal of the bachelor thesis is to introduce the scheme of temporary foster care in comparison with the infant care centers in the Czech Republic based on professional literature. The next goal is to find out which type of the care is more beneficial for child and for the state. The qualitative research was used to fulfill the goal on the basis of the secondary analysis of the obtained data. I chose 2 research questions: which type of the care is beneficial for child in terms of child's basic needs and which type of the care is more beneficial for the state in terms of financial demands and staffing.
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Myths and realities in substitute family care
VLASATÁ, Sabina
This thesis deals with the myths and realities which accompany the foster care. The goal of this work was to analyze awareness of inhabitants about the foster care of the Central-bohemia Region. The work is divided into the theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part describes important concepts with which these problems are linked, such as adoption, foster care, temporary foster care, guardianship, etc.. It deals also with basic needs of the child and family functions which are very important for proper development of the child. The thesis also describes how the process of arranging foster care working and what are the requirements for applicants, there is also the information about file documentation of the applicant and the child. The thesis further concentrates to ministries which are involved in child care outside the family. In my thesis I also deals with myths that often accompany foster care. For example it is a myth that includes the percentage of children who returned to their biological families or a close relative. The practical part of this thesis is processed by using a quantitative questionnaire survey. The research sample includes 100 respondents, who are inhabitants of the Central Bohemia region - it consists of 68 women and 32 men. The questions within the questionnaire were directed to answer the research questions that this work contains. After evaluation of the data of questionnaire that data was processed into graphs. Based on these graphs, I replied in a discussion on the research questions and evaluate how many percent of the sample from the Central Bohemia Region knows what is meant by adoption, foster care and guardianship. How many percent of respondents voted for adoption, if they can't have their own child and what percentage of them would have chosen up for adoption a child of the same nationality. I also answered due to research questions how many percent of the respondents knows where in their area look for some form of institutional care for a child under the age of 3 and what percentage knows which ministries are involved in institutional child care.
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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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Temporary foster care in the current system of substitute family care
KOSINOVÁ, Michaela
This thesis discusses all forms of foster care. It defines legal regulations for all forms of fostering and their respective differences. In particular, it deals with a new form of foster care {--} temporary fostering. It is also aimed to visualize the mediation process of foster care that must be completed by fostering applicants. The objective of this thesis is to find out how temporary foster care is used in the present fostering system. It identifies a number of applicants for this type of foster care as well as it maps the views of fostering officers at the Regional Authorities in the Czech Republic regarding the issue of temporary foster care. For this purpose, we applied an interrogation method using a question form. A set of fostering officers of the Regional Authorities in the Czech Republic was created. These officers were approached via e-mail. The results show that most of the fostering officers see temporary foster care as a necessary institute in the Czech Republic. The majority of them, however, suspect that its current concept brings a number of obstacles that entail low interest for this form of foster care. The survey identified that 4 applicants for temporary foster care were registered by the Regional Authorities as of December 31, 2008.
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