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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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Pedagogical aspects in the preparation of future foster parents in the Czech Republic
Vondrovicová, Lenka ; Komárková, Tereza (advisor) ; Tvrzová, Ivana (referee)
The thesis is devoted to the topic of preparatory courses for applicants for foster care. The aim of the thesis is to chart the course of professional preparation of future foster parents and replenish their subjective opinions. The theoretical part refers to the current legislative changes affecting the area of foster care in the Czech republic. It also deals with topics closely related to foster care, such as kinship care, contact with the biological parents or the identity of children in foster care. The following section is focused on the analysis of available training programs for foster parents, their specifics and the related methodological recommendations of Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic. Practical work was supported by DC Paprsek. By the form of semi-structured interviews with applicants for foster care was studied their subjective view of the importance and effectiveness of training courses.
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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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The temporary foster's care - importance, practice experience
Šťastná, Radka ; Lorenzová, Jitka (advisor) ; Schõnfelderová, Marie (referee)
The Diploma thesis is oriented into the area of a substitute family care in the Czech Republic. There are family functions disturbances in the respekt to the child specified in the first chapter, focusing mainly on those who most frequently, have an influence on a creation of so called "Infant social orphanage". The second chapter is dedicated to the possibilities of providing of substitute children nurture, mainly to single forms of substitute family care and theoretical recourses used for the optimal option of substitute child nurture. The content of the third chapter is a foster care (historical development, forms, infants indications, applicants motivation) and the newest type - the temporary foster care and its specifications compared to other forms of foster care. The fourth charter includes methodological recourses for an empirical research and thein interpretation. There are the Diploma Thesis findings and possibilities of further development of the substitute family care in the Czech Republic compiled in the fifth chapter.
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