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The Case Study of Life of Chosen Children, Who Grow Up in Children´s Homes in the Region of Central Bohemia
SUCHÁNKOVÁ, Veronika
The thesis looks at issues regarding the life of children growing up in children's homes. Theoretical part focuses on child, family, its functions and behavioural disorders in family that often result in violence against children and may lead to institutional childcare. The section regarding behavioural disorders in family is followed by a description of specific aspects of social and legal protection of children. Solutions and possibilities provided by State or other organizations for at-risk children are described. There is also a description of substitute care institutions. Finally, the most frequent reasons for placement of children in children's homes are listed, including risks that may result from leaving such institutions. Practical part of the thesis looks at young people growing up in children's homes. Children´s life in such institutions was mapped using qualitative research. The main objective was to answer to the research questions in order to get a better understanding of issues regarding children placed in children's homes.
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Colaboration of Curator for Youth with Educational Institutions.
ŠROUBOVÁ, Jitka
The author of this diploma thesis focuses on the issues of cooperation of the curator for children and youngsters with school institutions (especially schools). The aim of this cooperation and its subsequent description is to elaborate a multiple case study of selected students whose issues were so serious that the help of a curator was needed. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on the behaviour of students that is so serious that it goes beyond the scope of regular pedagogical approaches conducted by the school. The system of institutional help, often at hand to schools in such situations, is described with respect to the function of the curator for youngsters. The practical part of the thesis provides the reader with a multiple case study of several selected students whose issues were so severe that the cooperation of a curator was required. A qualitative research was used to elaborate the study and the results were obtained by semi-structured interviews with the students' parents, teachers, specialized pedagogical centre workers as well as the students themselves.
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Failure of a family as a factor for imposing educational measure
KŮZLOVÁ, Simona
The aim of this work is to describe a family environment of children and of parents who took educational measures or were enjoined of an institutional upbringing, particularly from the point of their function. Another target is to ascertain weather the reason of misbehaviour of the children with educational problems is not a failure of some functions of the family or a dismal family situation. This work is devided into two parts, theoretical and empirical. Theoretical part is dedicated to a family, functions of a family, educational styles, problematic bahaviour of children, syndrom CAN and social and legal protection of children. Within the empirical part files of children evidenced at the Departement of social and legal protection in Český Krumlov are analysed. Subject matter analysis of this documentation was used and within in major reasons of ordering educational maesures or an institutional education were ascertained. It also inquires into a family environment of children and their parents.
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Ethical aspects of substitute care in the context of legislation changes in the Czech Republic.
KŮRKOVÁ, Dagmar
My work analyses the legislation changes in the area of social and legal protection of children in the Czech Republic that have been introduced over the last two years. This work focuses on impacts of these changes in the practice of transferring children to substitute care as well as ethical aspects directly connected with this process. Laws impacting the social and legal protection of children are being compared in order to understand the legal rights of children. The consequences of the legislative changes have a direct effect on the processes of handing children to substitute care. The work is not only concerned with the practical impacts, but also with the ethical side of the problem which was identified as the most important in my thesis. Case reports from my own practice provide a complementary evidence to the reader to better understand the process of placement of children into substitute care both at professional and ethical levels.
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Substitute family care-ethhical view of life choice
ŠABACKÁ, Lenka
This thesis deals with the theme of substitute family care, which is currently topical. The aim of my thesis is to look and bring into the problems of substitute family care in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part is focused on the forms of substitute family care and their characteristics. There is described a mediation of adoption and foster care, where inherently belongs a motivation of applicants. An integral part of substitute family care is also the issue of adoption child from different ethnicity and influence of biological family on upbringing by his substitute parents. There are also explained ethical principles which play an important role in solution of ethical problems and dilemmas in substitute family care.
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Assessing of Functionality of Family in South Bohemia Region
ZBORNÍKOVÁ, Kateřina
Assessing the functionality of family is a very current topic. The last survey of functionality of family according to Questionnaire of functionality of family was done by professor Dunovský in the 80th of the 20th century. The aim of this study is to determine what social workers in the South Bohemian region assess the functionality of the family according to. Partial research questions aim to answer the main research question: Which characteristics does a functional family have according to social workers? This study deals with the question whether the Questionnaire of functionality is still up to date or outdated. The study deals only with a few fields of the questionnaire. The research was qualitative; its main technique was a semi standardized interview. The structure of the interview took a form of broadly worded questions that were aimed at understanding the problem. The survey shows that the Questionnaire of functionality by Dunovský cannot be used in assessing the functionality of family without detailed history of a family, which will reflect particular variations in individual families on the basis of prolonged inquiry in the family. The categories of the Questionnaire themselves need to be updated with regard to the shift of social perception of family and the shift of social-economic situation of families in society.
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Multidisciplinary cooperation of the body for social and legal protection of children seated in Tachov with other selected authorities in the field of children at risk
PÁNEK, Josef
The thesis focuses on the multidisciplinary cooperation in the area of the social and legal protection of children at risk. At the beginning, the theoretical notion of the child and the child at risk are defined as the concepts essentials in terms of the focus group of this thesis. The next chapter describes the existing social and legal protection of children, including its legislative definition, who is being protected, which subjects can provide these welfare services as well as the application of social work in social and legal protection of children. The second part examines three forms of multidisciplinary collaboration: a project of system early intervention, rehabilitation of families and case conferences. Individual types are primarily defined in theory, followed by a description of their functionality on the example of the Tachov town. The Annex section presents nine case reports, including their evaluation, that describe multidisciplinary collaboration through case conferences implemented by the authority for social and legal protection of children in Tachov.
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Situation of children placed in the orphanage Žíchovec and children's contacts with their biological families.
VOJTOVÁ, Lenka
The dissertation focuses on mapping the life situations of children placed in the children?s home in Žichovec in the period between the years 2008 and 2010 and on examining the communication with their biological families. Quantitative research was used to gather information in order to achieve these goals and to verify certain hypotheses. Three research files were established. File No. 1 with the aim to map the life situations of children placed in the children?s home in Žichovec in the period between the years 2008 and 2010. An intrinsic part of this aim was to chart the situation in the families of these children in the given period. File No. 2 with the aim to examine the course of the children?s visits to their biological families, which occurred in the year 2010. Secondary data analysis was used in the case of the first two research files in order to reveal the content of the documents. The first file contained 56 children, who were accommodated at the children?s home in Žichovec in the years 2008 to 2010. The second file consisted of the families of these children, which counted 42. This was caused by four cases of a group of three siblings, five cases of a group of two siblings and a single case of an orphan. The life situations of the children were divided into four areas: 1. Personal case-history ? ethnicity, gender, age at time of joining the children?s home, age at time of leaving the children?s home, length of stay at children?s home, place of residence after leaving the children?s home, type of school at-tended. 2. Reasons for admission to the children?s home ? court order or preliminary measure regarding non-parental care, reasons given by the family, reasons given by the child. 3. Family case-history ? composition of family, number of siblings (both full sib-lings and stepsiblings), financial situation of family, accommodation. 4. Relationship with biological family ? form and frequency of contact with biolo- gical family in the Children?s Home, contact information, development of the vi sits in the Children?s Home, length of visits in the Children?s Home. Questionnaires were utilised in the case of the third research file, which consisted of 28 children, who had visited their biological families in the course of the year 2010. The questionnaire devised for the study contained fourteen questions aimed at the children?s contact with their biological families and the course of the visits from the per-spective of the children. Three hypotheses were established at the start of the dissertation, all of which proved to be correct: 1. The main reason for admission of children to the children?s home in Žichovec in the years 2008 to 2010 was a dysfunctional family environment. 2. The majority of these children were maintaining contact with their biological families. 3. The majority of the children, who left the premises of the children?s home in Žichovec on approval of its director in the year 2010 did so in order to visit their biological parents. The dissertation will be used for internal purposes of the children?s home, the information gathered will further be made available to all those who work in similar facilities and those who are interested in the issues involved. The conclusions of the dissertation can also be used as groundwork for solving negative elements in families by preventing them.
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Possibilities for NGOs to participate in implementation of projects on socio-legal protection of children.
LOJÍKOVÁ, Jitka
In recent years, the social and legal protection of children has been much discussed and talked over by the general public. To a considerable extent that is definitely a result of the upcoming amendment to the Children?s Social and Legal Protection Act No. 359/1999 Coll., which is going to bring numerous changes regarding individuals taking part in the social and legal protection of children. The opening focuses on governmental and non-governmental organisations that cooperate with families. The social and legal protection of children, its structure and historical course are analysed and the issue of child neglect as well as the procedures of the children?s social and legal protection authorities and further cooperating subjects are specified. Family redevelopment is another point which is aimed at. Important constitutional and international documents related to the social and legal protection of children are described. Last but not least, the ethical code of a social worker is mentioned, which represents one of the fundamental documents in social work. The objective of the research lay in monitoring the circumstances of the cooperation between the Children?s Social and Legal Protection Authority (OSPOD) and the non-governmental non-profit organisations (NNO) in the Regions of South Bohemia and Pilsen. The thesis analyses the effects of the cooperation between the OSPOD and NNO and compares the attained experience of the subjects taking part in family redevelopment. The research questions of the thesis focused on cooperation negotiation between the children?s social and legal protection authorities and non-governmental non-profit organisations, determining strengths and weaknesses of such cooperations. Having processed the obtained data it was found out that the form of cooperation negotiation between the OSPOD and NNO is not cohesive. It takes place upon an individual agreement between individual OSPODs and NNOs. Additionally, the strengths and weaknesses of the cooperation between the OSPOD and NNO were further specified based upon the carried out research. To complete the task, a questioning method of dialogue was selected for the research. Half-standard discussions with the workers of the children?s social and legal protection authorities as well as non-governmental non-profit organisations took place in the Regions of South Bohemia and Pilsen.
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Social and legal protection of children in connection with their parents´ divorce
ŠIMKOVÁ, Radmila
The work deals with social and legal protection of children in connection with their parents{\crq} divorce. Describing the tasks of social and legal protection of children in the case of dissolution of marriage in which unprovided children live was the main objective of this work. Identifying eventual shortcomings of valid legislation of social and legal protection of children was the second objective. Family conceptions, its characteristics and basic functions as well as a legal definition of divorce and its consequences are specified in the theoretical part of the work. Another chapter deals with social and legal protection of children in general; it describes its historical development, bodies, procedures and basic principles. The social and legal protection of children in divorce situations is solved in the last chapter of the theoretical part of the work. Tasks of a guardian ad litem are particularly described there. To meet the objectives, a qualitative research was made, namely with a method of non-standardized questioning. An interview was used as a technique of data collection. The research was made in two departments of social and legal protection of children in the South Bohemian Region, and six guardians ad litem in total participated in it.
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