En av de vanligaste insatserna inom den sociala barnavården är familjehemsplaceringar av barn. Det är kommunen som har det övergripande ansvaret för placeringen. Det är vidare samhällets ansvar att enligt lag se till att den unga kommer ifrån en otrygg, bristfällig tillvaro och får god vård i familjehemmet. Socialnämnden beslutar om vården som antingen sker frivilligt med stöd av Socialtjänstlagen, eller med tvång med stöd av Lagen med särskilda bestämmelser om vård av unga. Syftet med uppsatsen är att förklara vad begreppet rättssäkerhet innebär, både utifrån en allmän definition och mer specifikt vid socialnämndens utredning och beslut om familjehemsplacering av barn och unga. Mitt intresse ligger i att undersöka vad barn och unga har för rättssäkerhet vid en sådan situation, jag koncentrerar mig dock på processen innan och fram till beslutet av en eventuell familjehemsplacering. Utifrån studiens syfte har jag använt mig av en kvalitativ metod i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer, för att få en djupare förståelse av intervjupersonernas personliga upplevelser. Jag har intervjuat tre socialsekreterare som arbetar med barn- och ungdomsutredningar i Skåne. Resultatet och analysen beskriver intervjupersonernas egna upplevelser av vad rättssäkerhet betyder för dem i förhållande till deras arbetsuppgifter. Resultatet visade bland annat att kunskap om de lagar som ligger till grund för utredning och beslut är en viktig del för att kunna utföra ett rättssäkert arbete. / One of the most common interventions in social services for children is a foster home placement. The municipality has overall responsibility for the placement. Furthermore, it is society's responsibility to legally ensure that the young are coming from an insecure, inadequate existence and given good care in the family home. Social Welfare Committee decides on the care, which is either voluntary under the Social Services Act, or enforced under the law of special provisions for the care of young people. The purpose of this paper is to explain what the term rule of law means, both from a general definition and more specifically at the social welfare committee and decisions on foster placement of children and young people. My interest lies in examining what children and young people have for legal certainty in this situation, I concentrate however on the process before and until the decision of a potential foster home placement. Based on the study's purpose, I used a qualitative approach in the form of semi-structured interviews, to gain a deeper understanding of the interviewees' personal experiences. I have interviewed three social workers that work with children and youth investigations in Skåne. The results and analysis describes the interviewees' own experiences of what rule of law means to them in relation to their duties. The results showed that knowledge of the laws that form the basis for investigation and decision is an important component in order to perform a proper safe work.

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and keywords Abstract The diploma thesis deals with the development of social work with clients in low-threshold facilities for children and youth in Prague. The diploma thesis contains a theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is describing low-thershold facilities for children and youth (further LFCY), streetwork social work with children and youth, the LFCY's target group from the perspective of developmental psychology and also describes work with the clients of LFCY. The practical part is dedicated to the preparation, planning, and implementation of research, analysis, interviews interpretation, the outcomes of research and discussion. The research survey is qualitatively oriented and focuses on identifying changes in social work in LFCY, the target group of LFCY, and seeks to reveal the further development of LFCY. Semistruktured interviews with LFCY social workers in Prague, were used for data collection. The aim of the research is to find out the changes and development of social work with LFCY's clients in Prague during the last five years. Keywords Czech Association Streetwork, children and youth, low-threshold facilities for children and youth, low-threshold, social work, outreach social work (streetwork).

South Africa faces a high disease burden and a limited public capacity to provide care to the ill. Research from the UK and sub-Saharan Africa suggests the burden often falls to children, who also take over domestic responsibilities necessary for household survival. To date, there is limited research exploring the relationship between parental illness and children’ responsibilities, or the moderating effect of socio-demographic variables. The thesis is comprised of three research phases. The first is a literature review to summarise existing research and identify substantial gaps, which included limited amounts of quantitative evidence on this topic and a lack of a tool to as-sess child responsibility that had both been adapted to the South African context and included caring responsibilities. The second research phase consists of an exploratory study of n = 349 children living with ill adults in urban and rural communities in the Western Cape province of South Africa to investigate their range of responsibility, which included caring for an ill parent, household chores, childcare, and income-generation. The resulting data were used to create the Child Responsibility Measure, which assesses the range and time burden of re-sponsibilities among South African children. The third research phase is a cross-sectional quantitative survey of n = 2,476 pairs of children and parents from urban and rural communities in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. Resulting data on parental health, socio-demographics, and child responsibilities were analysed with multiple regres-sions to determine drivers of children’s responsibility. Among the findings were that parental illnesses increase the likelihood children provide care and have larger responsibility workloads, and girls are more likely to take on all types of responsibility excluding income-generating activities, which were more common in boys. Additionally, while urban children were more likely to provide personal care, rural children had greater responsibility workloads.

This thesis is concerned with investigation adapted texts from literature for children and youth specifically adapted for deaf children. The aim of the work is to compare the final quality edited version of particular book for children and youth based on critical analysis, to assess whether the adapted texts respect the settled publishing rules and do not harm original version together with they are really more accessible for deaf children's readers. Adapted texts for deaf children are generally criticized and deemed unsuccessfull. This thesis seeks for an objective reflection of these books and their effectiveness and to submit possible proposals for their improvement. The first chapters are focused on editorial practice and the types of treatements that are performed in books for children and youth followed by a description of the arrangements for deaf children. Critical analysis is subjected to literary work Honzíkova cesta by Bohumil Říha adapted by Jana Purová. The critical analysis is founded on comparision between readability index of original version and adapted version, and study of the first chapter according to specialized literature. All adaptations are recorded and categorized, one segment is analyzed in details. Key words: literature for children and youth, adaptation, edition,...

This Master Thesis is focused on analysis of media response to editions Fresh and Raketa of publishing house Labyrint in the context of history of publishing practice in the Czech Republic in the nineties. It also discusses contemporary literature for children and youth. Thesis studies critical media response to three particular books from studied editions Tajemství oblázkové hory by Bára Dočkalová, Robinson by Petr Sís and Plyš by Michal Hvorecký. Novel Plyš by Michal Hvorecký was covered the most in the media. The smallest number of articles was published about Tajemství oblázkové hory by Bára Dočkalová. Even though it was nominated for Magnesia Litera Award, it did not win the price in the end. The closing part focuses on a unique project by publishing house Labyrint, a magazine for children called Raketa. Media attention is focused on creators of magazine, either it is the owner of publishing house Labyrint Joachim Dvořák or its chief editors Johana Švejdíková and Radana Litošová. Critical reflection is rare, there are mostly short notes recommending buying the magazine or describing a new issue. There is a broad spectrum of media chosen for this analysis, from news media to cultural and literary periodical such as Tvar, Host, A2 and catalog Nejlepší knihy dětem.

The study reported here originated in my therapeutic work with children at risk and my search for a therapeutic approach which would help them develop the inner strength to cope with their difficulties. The concept of ‘meaning in life' as a source of strength has been extensively and richly studied among older age groups, both with respect to the different personal meanings which everyone finds in their life and with respect to the effect on one's life of possessing a sense of 'meaning in life', but it has been neglected almost entirely among children. As a result, the aim of this research was to further knowledge about the concept of 'meaning in life' for children. Due to the paucity of research with children regarding this issue, it was needed to first establish that meaning in life was at all a relevant and researchable concept for children. Consequently, the primary research questions were as follows: Does the concept of ‘meaning in life' have relevance for children? Relatedly, what are the (dis)connections between children's understandings of their own lives, and what matters to them, and, the adult concept of ‘meaning in life? To examine these over-arching questions, the following four sub-questions were devised: - What do children think are the most important and meaningful things in their lives? - What do children think is the best way to live life? - What nature of goals and purpose do children have for their lives and do they believe that they have character traits and strengths which would help them to fulfil their goals/purpose? - How do children's individuality and the differences between them show themselves in their perspectives on meaning in life? To what extent is gender associated with variations in response? The research adopted a Constructivist-Phenomenological approach, with the aim of getting as close as possible to the children's own perceptions and experience of their world. Thirty eight-year-old children in their third year at two primary schools in different neighbourhoods of the same central Israeli city were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. This data collection approach was complemented by two creative elements: a short semi-humorous story told at the start to set the tone of the interview, and a picture drawn at the end of the interview by the children to illustrate what was important in their life. Some interviews were carried out individually and some as a group. The data analysis method chosen was Smith's (1996) and Smith and Osborn's (2008) Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). This thesis makes two original contributions to knowledge. The first is the discovery that meaning in life is as pertinent a concept among children as it is among adults. Children may not understand the concept of 'meaning in life' in as full a way as an adult might, but they do have clear and well-shaped opinions about the most important things in their lives (e.g. family and friends) and how they should best live (e.g. by helping others and living in peace). They have goals and plans for the future (e.g. Ambitions to become a pilot or teacher) and they believe that they have traits and strengths that will help them in reaching their goals (e.g. that being wise, kind or curious will help them in life). The second important contribution is methodological: the research technics developed in this study (the semi-structured interview enriched by story-telling and picture-drawing) has provided what appears to be a reliable way of generating valid responses from the participants. It could be used by researchers in the future to further understanding about how children perceive the notion of meaning in life.

Mar me quer, do escritor moçambicano Mia Couto, é uma narrativa cuja edição que se tem disponível para compra no mercado editorial 24,5cm de altura por 17,3cm de largura; capa dura, em fundo verde vibrante, com ilustração colorida; oito ilustrações de João Nasi Pereira, ao longo de seus oito capítulos; sessenta e oito páginas totais, contando, dentre elas, as páginas de ilustrações e as em branco inscreve-se, desde sua apresentação física, no entrelugar da literatura destinada ao público infantil ou juvenil. Ao seu formato dissimulador, acresce a manifestação, em variados momentos e em diferentes categorias da narrativa ações, personagens, espaços e tempos , do insólito ficcional traço desestabilizador da mimeses realista, comprometida com a realidade empírica, senso comum , realçando um caráter fantasista de ordenação metaempírica da realidade, no plano do discurso ficcional que permite situar a obra tanto no universo já prenunciado das literaturas infantil ou juvenil, quanto no seio das vertentes literárias do fantástico sentido lato. Um percurso pelos fios das histórias de Zeca Perpétuo e Luarmina, personagens centrais da narrativa, conduz a um passeio pelos mares dessas literaturas em que irrompe o insólito, levando a que leiam as tensões emergentes de um mundo repleto de mitos, lendas e crenças, terra telúrica de África, Moçambique / Mar me quer is a narrative written by Mia Couto, a Mozambican writer. The books edition, available for purchase, measures 24.5 cm high by 17.3 cm wide; Its hardcover has a vibrant green background with colorful illustration, eight drawings made by Nasi John Pereira along its eight chapters; sixty-eight pages in total - considering, among them, the illustrative pages and blank ones- which fall in the midst of the literature aimed at children and adolescents. To its concealing format, one should join the manifestation of the fantasized sort of reality, in terms of fictional discourse - at various times and in different categories of narrative: action, characters, places and times of the fictional unusual trait which destabilizes the realistic mimesis, committed to empirical reality, the common sense. By highlighting this fantastic aspect of the narrative, the writer manages to situate his work in the universe - already foreshadowed - of the child and juvenile literature, as well as within the literary strands of the fantastic -in the broadest sense. A journey through the story of Zeca Perpétuo and Luarmina, central characters of the narrative, leads to a walk through the seas of these literatures in which the unusual bursts, leading readers to the emerging tensions of a world filled with myths, legends and beliefs of this telluric land in Africa, Mozambique

A exigência de altos resultados para os jovens desportistas é amplamente questionada pela literatura visto que, das três etapas do período de formação, os resultados só demonstram relevância na terceira. Neste sentido, o objetivo principal deste estudo foi verificar se os atletas de seis modalidades (ginástica olímpica, ginástica rítmica, natação, tênis, voleibol e futsal) apresentaram altos resultados enquanto pertenciam ao período de formação desportiva. Para complementar a pesquisa investigou-se a opinião de 25 treinadores sobre este tema. Em uma amostra de 161 atletas de alto nível observou-se a percentagem de altos resultados durante as três etapas de preparação desportiva, de acordo com o modelo de Platonov (1994), através de consultas às federações e questionários aplicados aos atletas. As principais conclusões da pesquisa foram: a) os atletas demonstraram um baixo percentual de altos resultados na primeira etapa (28,7%), um médio percentual na segunda etapa (67,6%) e, na terceira etapa, ocorreu o maior percentual de altos resultados (87,1%); b) a comparação realizada entre as modalidades revelou grande variação entre elas na primeira e segunda etapas, entretanto, todos desportos apresentaram altos percentuais na terceira fase, indicando grande relevância dos resultados neste período; c) os treinadores: não demonstraram um perfil único em relação à importância que atribuem aos resultados dos jovens desportistas, tão pouco no que diz respeito ao momento em que eles devem ocorrer; relacionaram o significado dos resultados com “grande chance de ter um atleta de ponta”, “possibilidade de avaliação”, “motivação” e “não são tão importantes quanto a diversão, as conquistas pessoais e as atitudes positivas”; consideraram que os altos resultados no desporto de crianças e jovens podem constituir em prejuízo para a carreira do atleta. / The demand for high performance results put upon young athletes is widely questioned in literary works. However, of the three phases during the period of formation, the results only demonstrated to be relevant in the third period. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to verify if the athletes from six sports (olympic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, swimming, tennis, volleyball, and indoor soccer) presented high results during the period of sports development. To complement the research, the views of 25 trainers on this theme were taken into consideration. From a sample of 161 high-level athletes, the percentage of high results were observed during the three phases of sports preparation, according to the model of Platonov (1994), by means of consulting the federations and by questionnaires applied to the athletes. The main conclusions of the research were the following: a) the athletes showed a low percentage of high results during the first phase (28.7%), an average percentage during the second phase (67.6%), and in the third phase is where the greatest percentage of high results occurred (87.1%). b) the comparison made between the sports modalities revealed a great variation between them in the first and second phases, but all sports showed high percentages in the third phase, indicating great relevance in the results in this period. c) the trainers did not show a united opinion in relation to the importance given to the results of the young athletes nor with respect to the moment at which they should occur. They related the significance of results as "a great opportunity to have a first-rate athlete", "possibility to be evaluated", "motivation", and "not so important as the fun, personal victories and the positive attitudes". They did think that a strong focus on high results in sports for children and young people could have a negative effect on the career of the athlete.