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Assisted Custody in the Process of Foster Care
MOULÍKOVÁ, Dita
The bachelor thesis is focused on the service of assisted contact in the process of foster care. The aim of this thesis is to find out how the assisted contact service is used in organizations accompanying foster families in the South Bohemian region. Based on the study of theoretical data, the research question is "How do social workers in the South Bohemian Region perceive assisted contact?" This thesis is divided into theoretical and practical or research part, while the theoretical part includes a description of forms of substitute family care, an explanation of the child's contact in foster care with the biological family and defining the assisted contact service. The practical part is based on qualitative research. The method of questioning, the technique of semi-structured interview, was used for processing. A total of five interviews were conducted. The interviews were conducted thanks to social workers involved in accompanying the foster parents, who were selected as a research group based on a deliberate selection method. The results were evaluated using open coding. The results of the interviews show that social workers providing the assisted contact service in the South Bohemian Region have a predominantly positive attitude towards the assisted contact service and therefore perceive it as beneficial. The results of this bachelor's thesis can be used as a study material for students or institutions dealing with the issue of accompanying foster families, or for future applicants for foster care.
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Pěstounská péče prarodičů z pohledu zaměstnanců orgánu sociálně-právní ochrany dětí
VLČKOVÁ, Dominika
The bachelor thesis deals with the issue of foster care performed by grandparents. Foster care is a form of substitute family care in which the foster parent personally takes care of the child and is responsible for his / her upbringing. An individual, spouse or partner who meets the conditions stipulated by law can become a foster parent. They are often the child's grandparents. The aim of the bachelor thesis is to map the opinions of employees of the social and legal protection of children on foster care of grandparents with a focus on the benefits and risks of this foster care. Qualitative research, the method of questioning and the technique of semi-structured interview have been used to achieve the set goal. Interviews were conducted with substitute family care staff at the Department of Social and Legal Protection of Children at municipal authorities, the regional authority in the selected region and the municipality of the selected city. The obtained data have been processed by the method of clustering. The results have shown that, despite the disadvantages of grandparents' foster care, surrogate family care workers have a positive subjective feeling about this form of care. The great advantage, compared to the mediated foster parent, is the family and emotional bond between the grandparent and the child. The child usually knows the grandparent from an early age and is used to the environment where the grandparent lives. This bachelor thesis can be beneficial for social workers working with the family, because it also points to the negative aspects that grandparents' foster care brings. At the same time, it highlights the benefits of this type of foster care.
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The attitudes of foster parents to services provided by nonprofit organizations in Ceske Budejovice district
ŠIMONOVÁ, Petra
The bachelor thesis deals with the attitudes of foster parents to services provided by accompanying organizations in the district of České Budějovice. The first part of my bachelor thesis describes the basic concepts like the foster care and family. The aim is to present legal rights and responsibilities which foster parents towards the entrusted child have. I dedicated the second part of my theoretical part to the description of the accompanying organizations and social workers. The practical part provides data analysis from the answers acquired during the semi structured interviews. My goal is to find out whether the services provided by non-profit organization to foster families are sufficiently fulfilled according to the act number 359/1999 concerning Legal Code About Social and Legal Protection of Children. This thesis is also interested in their points of view on accompanying organizations and if they would appreciate or welcome any changes.
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Význam doprovázejících organizací z pohledu pěstounů
JAHODOVÁ, Vendula
Bachelor thesis focuses to foster parent´s experiences with accompanying organizations. The goal of thesis is to describe this experince and identify factors affecting fosterparent´s attitude.Accompanying organization as supporting service should assure fosterparent´s leading through whole process of foster care. Besides they are able to assure services beyond what is required by law. In theoretical part, I´m focused on family, its role and attachment´s theory. Then I´m describing substitute family care, its forms and legislative framework. Foster care has its own chapter including history and types of care, foster parent´s rights, social security, mediation and foster care´s process. Next chapter is devoted to accompanying organizations, including legislative framework for social-juristic children protection assured by authorized person, examples of accompanying organizations in Southern Bohemia and standarts for social-juristic children protection assured by authorized persons. Through demi-structured interviews I gained informations by Group 1, Group 2 was engaged through questionnaire. Mind Map was used for interviews preparation, questionnaire processing and evaluation. Content analysis was used for interviews data´s processing.For questionnaire data´s processing was used basic descriptive statistics, especially frequency statistics. It follows from the research part of my work, that the key social worker plays an important role in relationship to accompanying organization, especially his competence, professionalism and personality. Sometimes specific social worker can be a decisive factor in creating of attitude to accompanying organizations. Most of foster parents have a good experince with accompanying organizations. It follows from the research, that every accompanying organzation provides different range and quality of services. This research can be useful for social field students and for social workers. It can serve future foster parent´s for problematic orientation, eventual with accompanying organization´s choice.
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Ethical Dilemmas of Foster Care
KANTOR, Jan
This bachelor's thesis deals with the aspects of foster care itself and also focuses on social workers who are involved in this branch. The aim of this work is to point out the most common ethical dilemmas, that the social workers in foster care have to deal with. The work has been divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part describes current situation in foster care. There are described forms of alternative family care including foster care, which is described more in detail. The theoretical part also deals with the topic of ethical dilemma in foster care and introduces the ethical codex for social workers. The practical part was processed through the qualitative strategy using the method of interviewing and the semi-structural interview technique. Partners for the interviews were social workers from non-profit organizations who guide the foster families. This selective sample was chosen according to the purposive sampling method.The snowball sampling method was also used in this work. The interviews were evaluated by using the open coding method and as a result were described nine categories. The research also helped to name three most common ethical dilemmas that the social workers have to deal with. This work also describes the aspects that help the social workers to solve these dilemmas. This bachelor's thesis can help social workers in foster care to understand and solve ethical dilemmas or also for further research
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Issues of substitute family care
SAMOHEJLOVÁ, Klára
My thesis is theoretical-empirical and deals with social work with families and children's plus alternative family care, that is, foster care. First, it describes the family in general, her functions and types, including family disorders and parenthood disorders, in addition to how disorders are divided. The thesis underlines, how family support and child protection work in social work itself and what role the social worker plays here. The work also offers a brief comparison with how family support works in the UK. At the end, the thesis deals with substitute family care as such for the reason that the child had to be removed from the biological family, that is foster care.
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Contact of Children in Foster Care with their Biological Family
VAČKÁŘOVÁ, Hana
This bacherol thesis is focused on children in foster care and their contact with the biological family. The aim is the introduction of the process of contact of children in foster care and its biological family and to point out possible risks and positives which are associated with this contact. Another part of this work is description of function and meaning of the family, the need of children, form and process of foster careand its mediation. Next part is about the assited contact and rules and course of the meeting. The last part of this work is focus on risk and positivities which we are encountering with. This part is ended by practical examples and evaluation form of risks of the contact.
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Grandparents as Foster Parents from a View of Social Workers
LUSTOVÁ, Andrea
My bachelor's thesis deals with kinship care provided by grandparents. I have set two goals - (1) to map social workers' experience concerning raising a child placed into the care of grandparents and (2) to discover in which areas of child care the intergenerational distinction is most clearly seen. I have chosen the qualitative research strategy, questionnaire method and semi-structured discussion. Data were evaluated based on open coding. The research group consisted of five social workers. The research itself was realized in March, 2020. The theoretical part deals with foster care in general, its history in the Czech Republic, the beginning and end of foster care, foster care allowances, foster care by relatives, and especially grandparents. The practical part contains open coding with five categories, where each category contains one or two subcategories. I have researched that every social worker perceives kinship care differently and has her own experience. There was a great deal of disagreement among the answers given by social workers. I was finding out intergenerational differences, risks and negatives of this kinship care, spending free time with children and grandparents' participation in the school preparation of children. This bachelor thesis can serve as a source of information for authorized person to social and legal protection of children.
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Foster Care of Romani Children
MARKOVÁ, Lucie
This bachelor thesis deals with foster care providers and their motivation to perform foster care. The aim of the work was to find out what are the factors of motivation for foster care of a Roma child. In the theoretical part, I described the basic concepts related to the concept of alternative family care, including the legislative framework. Subsequently, I also described the topic of the Roma community, the Roma family and the formation of the identity of a Roma child in a non-Roma surrogate family. In the practical part, qualitative research was used, more precisely biographical interviews, which I supplemented by subsequent questioning. The communication partners were families who provide foster care, have at least one child of the Roma ethnic group and are themselves of the non-Roma ethnic group. Another condition for the selection of communication partners was that they have a permanent residence in the South Bohemian Region. All obtained data are analyzed in a way based on grounded theory. While processing this bachelor's thesis, I found that motivation can be different and different from each individual separately. The main factors of initial motivation can be external and internal influences, in each case the greatest impact on such decisions has the environment, family, friends or even professional life. Cooperation with the relevant authorities and social workers is especially important for every applicant for alternative family care. If the applicant is sure that his interest is also supported by the authorities, this decision is often full and fulfilled.
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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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