The diploma thesis is focused on the differences in the system of child care in a children's home and in foster care. The fundamental right of children in the event of their separation from their parents, which is based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, includes the right to regular personal contact with parents (if such contact is in the best interests of the child). The first part of the diploma thesis is focused on the legal anchoring of institutional education and alternative family education with a focus on children's homes and foster care. Furthermore, the basic rights of children, especially the right of children to contact with the biological family with a focus on the description of the practical functioning of supporting the contact of children with the biological family in children's homes and foster care. The second part of the diploma thesis is focused on research, the aim of which is to find out, through quantitative research, how children growing up in a given form of alternative care perceive the support of contact with the biological family.

Short-term foster care is a fairly new form of substitute family care. Despite it having been incorporated in law since 2006, short-term foster care have only begun being employed seven years later. Only then the details of its administration were laid out in legislation. Purpose of this form of substitute family care is to prevent a placement of children into institutional care. It's possible to look at the professional foster care from different angles and thus assess it differently. Certainly, it has its positive and negative aspects as well as possible problems. It's undeniable that a well-functioning family is the best environment for raising and caring for a child. Forming an emotional bond is one of the most discussed factors contributing to the proper development of children placed in short-term foster care. Experts as well as the general public are looking for answers to the questions whether or not it's in the interest of the child to form an attachment to someone who's with them only for a short period of time, which children is professional foster care best suited for, whether children living in short-term foster care placements are less prone to suffer from emotional deprivation than children placed in institutional care or whether the duration of this form of foster care is sufficient. More questions arise over the degree of health care provided to infants placed with a professional forster family as well as over the level of risk of these children suffering traumas and stigmatizing experience compared to children living in institutional care. The objective of this thesis is to survey and assess the experience gained so far from implementing short-term foster care and to try and describe based on (previously) established facts how the children benefit from this form of substitute family care. In order to meet the set objective I chose a qualitative research strategy, the interview as a method, a semi-structured interview and a secondary analysis strategies. The results show that the most common reason for placing a child in this form of foster care is the impending adoption, i. e. it's mainly being used for infants whilst adoption placements are sorted out for them. To a lesser extent there are other reasons, respectively a minimum of older children are placed with professional foster families. Given these facts, it appears necessary to regard the short-term foster care differently depending on the age group of children placed in it. Undeniable merits of all cases of short-term foster care are an individual approach to each child that minimizes emotional deprivation and development of trauma, the development of the attachment behaviour and enough stimuli to influence a child's development. In the case of older children these are an experience of living in a well-functioning family and a positive educational impact. Developing an attachment between the child and the foster parent and then losing it because of the child's departure from a family is more risky for older children than newborns and toddlers. Claim that no attachment is to be formed between the child and the foster parent proved entirely unrealistic. The lack of permanent medical supervision can be seen as a disadvantage of professional foster care especially from the perspective of child welfare workers. Children placed for adoption often come from not monitored pregnancies or parents at-risk, i.e. these are children with unknown history whose development can therefore be risky, so they require a professional medical care in the first weeks of their lives. Research results have also indicated foster parents' positive motivation to professional fostering, an undisputed enrichment that this occupation brings their entire families and a satisfaction resulting from the meaningfulness of their work. The author believes that the institute of short-term foster care is undoubtedly very beneficial for a certain category of

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A ocorrência desta violência pode implicar, em alguns casos, no afastamento da vítima da convivência familiar e comunitária, através da aplicação de medidas jurídicas de proteção a vítima, passando esta a viver em abrigo institucional. Mas, paradoxalmente, o que era para ser excepcional e transitório, tem-se configurado como a modalidade mais utilizada pela sociedade brasileira, e o tempo de permanência nos abrigos tende a ser longo. Assim, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo geral analisar o processo de institucionalização e desinstitucionalização através da perspectiva das adolescentes vítimas de abuso sexual. Buscou-se conhecer o “mundo” social, o cotidiano e os vínculos afetivos e sociais das adolescentes ingressas, e as representações sociais que as egressas (re)constroem no momento da saída do abrigo após (longos) anos de institucionalização, sinalizando para os desafios encontrados na vida de egressa. Para dar conta dessa dimensão privilegiamos uma metodologia de pesquisa qualitativa e de caráter exploratório. A Instituição estudada foi a ONG Lar Flor de Lis, Salvador/BA, que ampara cerca de 120 crianças e adolescente, do gênero masculino e feminino. A maioria dos abrigados é composta de afrodescendentes, possui baixa escolaridade, são oriundos de bairros periféricos de Salvador, Região Metropolitana e municípios do interior do Estado da Bahia. O recorte empírico privilegiou cinco adolescentes do gênero feminino, vítimas de abuso sexual. Verificou-se que as representações sociais sobre o abrigo são experienciadas de forma ambígua, sendo este entendido como um espaço de apoio, proteção, quanto de aprisionamento. Em relação a sua vivência na instituição, observou-se que o abrigamento tende a ser visto pelas adolescentes como uma dupla punição, sentem-se injustiçadas pelo afastamento da convivência familiar e comunitária, e pela impunidade do agressor. Uma questão apontada nos casos de abuso sexual verificada nessa pesquisa é que há uma tendência para uma idealização cristalizada de um tipo imaginário de família feliz, normal, dissimulando dessa forma, a realidade socioafetiva familiar vivenciada por essas, e a negação das relações de violência e “proteção social”.The shelter of children and adolescents is one of the forms of institutional care foreseen in the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA), Law 8.069/90 (updated by Law 12,010 of 2009) as a measure of exceptional and temporary protection in cases of threat or violation of rights of children and adolescents, including sexual abuse cases against children and adolescents. The occurrence of this violence can lead, in some cases, to the removal of the victim from his/her family and community, through the application of legal measures to protect the victim that then begins to live in an institutional shelter. But, paradoxically, the measure of protection that is supposed to be exceptional and temporary, has been configured as the modality of protection used most often by Brazilian society, and the length of stay in the shelters tends to be long. Thus, this research aims to analyze the process of institutionalization and deinstitutionalization through the perspective of adolescents victims of sexual abuse. We sought to understand the social "world", the everyday life and the social and emotional bonds of intern teenagers, and the social representations that those who leave (re) build on leaving the shelter after (long) years of institutionalization, signaling to challenges encountered in the after-shelter life. To understand this dimension we favor a qualitative exploratory research methodology. The institution studied was the NGO Lar Flor de Lis, Salvador / BA, which shelters about 120 children and adolescents, male and female. Most sheltered children and adolescents are Afro-Brazilian, have low education, and are from the outskirts of Salvador metropolitan area and municipalities of the state of Bahia. The empirical cut favored five teenage female victims of sexual abuse. It was found that social representations about the shelter are experienced ambiguously, being perceived as a place of support, protection, but also of imprisonment. Regarding their experience at the institution, it was observed that the shelter tends to be seen by teenagers as a double punishment, they feel wronged by the separation from the family and community, and by the impunity of the perpetrator. It can be noticed in the sexual abuse cases analyzed in this research that there is a tendency toward idealizing a happy, normal, family, thus disguising the reality of the socio-affective family experienced by these, and the denial of the relations of violence and "social protection.

In this thesis, "Stages of social work with clients with Alzheimer's disease", I focused on the analysis of the most effective stages of social work. I found out that most respondents prefer a domestic informal care, corresponding to the stages of provided social work and unconditional acceptance of the patient. The sick person requires a sensitive holistic approach, accepting his individuality and ensuring dignity in all stages of the disease. The thesis was structured on the theoretical part, based on the findings of scientific literature dealing with the symptomatology and processes of Alzheimer's disease, characterized by basic treatment and care approaches. The theoretical part is followed by an own joint investigation, divided in a qualitative and a quantitative approach. The qualitative approach is based on a detailed case study which uses the methods of observation and interviews. Anonymous questionnaires were used for the quantitative method. The obtained data were summarized and analyzed. Due to the lack of data I concluded that the considered results can be obtained as irrelevant.

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The theme of this thesis is the analysis of socially pathological issues in the context of placing children into children's homes. It investigates the causes of these issues and possible methods of prevention. At the beginning of the thesis there is a brief characteristics and history of institutional care in the Czech Republic. There is also a part about the formation of socially pathological issues based on internal and external causes in humans life. Furthermore there is a detailed analysis of certain socially pathological issues in the families and their influence on a child's development. These specific issues were chosen based on findings made in Children's Home Dolní Počernice. In the conclusion of the theoretical part of this thesis there are mentioned possible ways of supporting families - as a method of prevention of placing children into institutional care. Especially focused was the method Housing First and its first testing in Brno, where the positive impact on the quality of life of participating families was achieved. The research part of this thesis was realized via a quantitative survey - 61 files of children placed into Children's Home Dolní Počernice were analyzed in June 2018. I focused mainly on the causes of placing the child into the institutional care, family conditions, and...

The aim of this thesis is to gather data within the harmonization proces between work and family life at addressed families where is the woman´s role either an employee or businesswoman. The theoretical part deals with aspects which help women with easier harmonization between two lifes areas - work and family. Specifically, this part deals with various forms of child care and types of financial support provided by the state. The thesis also solves the forms of flexible working hours, with emphasis on their current use across the European Union countries. The practical part is focused on mapping strategies in addressed families with a woman who is in labour-law relation and families with a businesswoman. For these purposes were chosen families (men and women) with which we were making inteviews and questionnaires focused on the time allocated to various tasks in one day.

This paper deals with forms of compensatory care of unprovided children, taking in consideration their specific needs from the architecture-type point of view. The target group is that of big foster families, evaluation of their life requirements and defining their requirements of the living space, preparing the ground for legislative introduction of professional foster care.