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Contact of biological families with children entrusted to foster care
DYTRICHOVÁ, Eva
The objective of the presented work has been to analyse the approach of foster parents administered by the Regional Authority of the South Bohemian Region to the implementation of the contacts of the children in their foster care with their biological families and to map out the contacts of children in foster care with their biological families. The first section of the study is focussed on a theoretical analysis of alternative family care and foster care in particular. The second section deals with the processing of questionnaires filled in by foster parents operating within the South Bohemian Region in the period from December 2008 to February 2009. The analysed data were processed under the use of the questionnaire technique. The set of respondents consisted both of foster parents for whom the foster care had been mediated by the Regional Authority of the South Bohemian Region, and of foster parents whose child had been placed into their pre-foster care as well as of foster parents who had acquired the status of foster parents as a result of their application filed with a court.
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Subdeprivation and its consequences for a school development of the child
BÍLÁ, Radmila
The aim of my dissertation is to provide a look into the subdeprivation phenomena in contemporary child care institutions (children{\crq}s homes, foster care). The theoretical part is focused on defining of basic concepts related to psychological deprivation, defining of psychological needs of children and psychological deprivation displays. Further, it deals with children{\crq}s homes issues, with some kinds of foster family care and with the unwanted children matter. The practical part focuses on the aim of the work. There are compared three children groups (children growing up in a functional family, children from children{\crq}s homes and children from foster care). There are described the findings that were gained from selected tests and observations. In the end the outcomes were evaluated.
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County Council and its Possibilities to Participate on Improving the Quality of Foster Care
DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Jana
The bachelor's work is is focused on parents, which desided to take a child into a foster care. Before this process, ``preparation for child acceptance into family{\crqq} preceded. Under our social conditions, the preparation is completely in authority of the county council. This institution makes a psychological adjudication of applicants, during which their character qualitites and reasons for child acceptance are assessed. On the basis of this adjudication, the applicant is declined or admit to peparatory course. The aim of the preparation course is to provide the potential parents with sufficient information essential for successful upbringing of the stepchild. The preparation has several parts and the decision of inclusion into applicants register is given at the end. Practical part includes two illustrative casustic interviews with foster families. They positively evaluate the activity of county council, but they also emphasize the necessity of permanent warning of wild range of potential problems and variety of their solutions.
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Present nursery school in a town and in a village
STAŇKOVÁ, Kateřina
This work discusses the differences of the rural and the urban lifestyle and their influence to the behavior and approve themselves of children and teachers in nursery schools. In the theoretical part I write about the factors, which have the greatest influence to the behavior of children, in the practical part I watch the behavior of children in the preselect activities in 5 rural and 5 urban nursery school.
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Situation of children in the Charlotta Masaryk children´s home and their departure into foster family care
JALOVCOVÁ, Klára
The substitute educational care embraces all kinds of a substitute family for children without own functioning family background. There are two forms - the institutional and the family one. In my bachelor thesis I focused on issues relating to children from the Charlotta Masaryk´s Children Care Home and their departure to substitute family care. This medical facility has a relatively small capacity and is intended for children from one to three years of age. In accordance with the set goals, I divided the practical part into two sections. The first goal was to ascertain social, health and legal situation of children with ordered institutional upbringing, who were placed in the Charlotta Masaryk´s Children Care Home in the years of 2005 to 2008. The other goal was to map the situation of children with the ordered institutional upbringing, who departed from the Charlotta Masaryk´s Children Care Home to the substitute family care. Both goals were fulfilled. In order to fulfil the goals, a quantitative research method was used, i.e. the secondary data analysis technique. The following hypotheses were set: Hypothesis 1 - The most frequent reason for placing children in the children´s care home are social and health reasons Hypothesis 2 - the majority of children come to the children´s family home in a bad health condition. Hypothesis 3 - the majority of children from the children´s family home are in contact with their biological family Hypothesis 4 - Children placed in the substitute family care leave most frequently to the foster care. The hypothesis 2 was not confirmed, while the other hypotheses proved correct. It follows from the results of the hypothesis 1, that children come to the children care home most often out of social and health reasons, there are few purely health reasons. This is connected with the hypothesis 2, which was not confirmed. That is, the majority of children come to the children care home in a good health condition. The predominant majority of children come to the children care home from a family and stay in contact with them (hypothesis 3). Children most often return to their family; in the event that they leave to the substitute family care, then the foster care prevails over adoption (hypothesis 4). The results of work will be used for the purposes of Charlotta Masaryk´s Children Care Home and also for social workers, so that they can get an overview of the situation in the facility in question.
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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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Faster Care as the Form of the Substitutional Family Education
BEDNÁŘOVÁ, Petra
My work is engaged in the problems of foster care. In the primary phase of my diploma work i target on the arev in which the readers are acquainted with the concrete phases of foster care. Every applicant must pass this period to get the child in his her foster care. In my work there are involved the basic ideas and rules, that foster care relies on. In my research there are presentech opinions of fosters who hud to pass these phases. The main idea of my research was to jind out the fulings of fosters and their suggestions in the frocens of foste care.
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FOSTER CARE GIVEN BY GRANDPARENTS
VALIHRACHOVÁ, Monika
Foster Care Given by Grandparents Abstract Substitute family care is a form of child care where a child is brought up by foster parents in an environment that is the most similar to living in a natural family. The most frequent forms of substitute family care in the Czech Republic are adoption and foster care. Only 2 % of these children are {\clqq}absolute`` orphans, the remaining 98 % are social orphans. These children have their own families, but the families either can´t or don´t want to take care of them. This thesis is concentrates on the foster care provided by grandparents. This type of foster care has its own specificities, which are introduced in this thesis. Data chosen for this thesis was obtained by qualitative research with the utilization of halfstructured, in-depth interviews. The results are case studies of five women, aged 20 {--} 30, who are or were fostered by grandparents. Statistics from the Vysočina region and the Region of South Bohemia are complementary information. This concrete data was obtained from municipal offices of municipal corporations of the Vysočina region and from the office of substitute family care of the regional authority of the Jihočeský region in České Budějovice. The aim of this bachelor thesis was the appreciation of specific characteristics of foster care provided by grandparents in choice families and the evalutation of the amount of children placed in foster care and tutelage (wardship) in the Jihočeský and Vysočina region per year 2007. Characteristics of foster care provided by grandparents were described. The number of children placed in foster care and tutelage in the South Bohemian and Vysočina region was only partially evaluated. This thesis has used qualitative research; it is not possible to generalize these results. The results of this thesis might be useful for all who are concerned with substitute family care. Special contributions have been made especially from these case studies, which describe the inception, process, positives, negatives and impact of foster care provided by grandparents and from the perspective of children (women), since research in this topic is quite rare.
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Health and social aspects of infertility and its treatment
ZAVADILOVÁ, Zuzana
Infertility is the inability to achieve a pregnancy. WHO classify infertility into two groups. Primary infertility is the term used to describe a couple that has never been able to conceive a pregnancy, after at least 1 year of unprotected intercourse. Secondary infertility describes couples who have previously been pregnant at least once, but have not been able to achieve another pregnancy. Causes of infertility include a wide range of physical as well as emotional factors. Approximately 30 - 40% of all infertility is due to a "male" factor such as retrograde ejaculation, impotence hormone deficiency, environmental pollutants, scarring from sexually transmitted disease, or decreased sperm count. A "female" factor -- scarring from sexually transmitted disease or endometriosis, ovulation dysfunction, poor nutrition, hormone imbalance, ovarian cysts, pelvic infection, tumor or transport system abnormality from the cervix through the fallopian tubes -- is responsible for 40 - 50% of infertility in couples. The remaining 10 -30% of infertility cases may be caused by contributing factors from both partners, or no cause can be identified. This dissertation has two main goals. The first goal is to describe how a couple face up to their problems with infertility. The second goal is that this dissertation can be used as a study material for social and medical employees. This dessertation is based on a qualitative research. I used a method CAMI {--} communication through the use of computer. The observational goup were people disccusing at www.neplodnost.cz.
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Possibilities and Limits of Substitute Family Care
PRÁŠILOVÁ, Kateřina
The paper deals with the importance of substitute family care in the Czech Republic. Theoretical part characterizes possibilities of substitute family care, importance of family and its ambiance. Next, it describes risk and protective factors and substitute family, focuses on institutional treatment of children and possible problems of child{\crq}s socialization. Practical part contains casuistics and comparison of two chosen cases: case of successful and unsuccessful substitute family care. Both cases have good intention. They offer further view into problems of substitute family care. Its quality is not related only to those who decided to take abandoned child into their family but lies also in the child itself and not forgetting in abilities of workers securing substitute family care.
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