Tyrimo problema siejama su tuo, kad visuomenėje formuojasi nuomonė, jog daugiavaikės šeimos nesugeba pasirūpinti vaikų išsilavinimu, vaikai orientuojami į žemos kvalifikacijos reikalaujančias profesijas, daugiavaikių šeimų kūrimosi motyvacinėje sistemoje dominuoja ekonominiai veiksniai (socialinių pašalpų gavimo galimybės). Tyrimo tikslas – ištirti daugiavaikių šeimų vaikų profesinio kryptingumo ugdymo ypatumus ir jų rengimą karjerai. Tyrimo uždaviniai: 1. Atlikti daugiavaikių šeimų vaikų profesinio kryptingumo ugdymo ir rengimo karjerai mokslinės literatūros apžvalgą. 2. Ištirti ir išanalizuoti vaikų profesinio kryptingumo ugdymo ir rengimo karjerai ypatumus socialiai remtinose, sėkmingose ir socialinės rizikos daugiavaikėse šeimose. Tyrimo objektas – daugiavaikių šeimų vaikų profesinio kryptingumo ugdymo ypatumai. Tyrimo metodas – mokslinės literatūros analizė ir sintezė, daugiavaikių šeimų kokybinio fenomenologinio tyrimo rezultatų analizė (tyrimo tipas – kokybinis fenomenologinis: aprašomasis, refleksyvus, interpretacinis tyrimas, kurio pagalba ištiriama žmonių patirčių/patyrimų esmė). Tyrimo duomenų surinkimui pasirinktas pusiau struktūruoto interviu būdas. Respondentų demografiniai duomenys apdoroti kompiuterine programa Microsoft Excel (kiekybinio tyrimo metodas). Tyrimo rezultatai: Ištyrus ir išanalizavus daugiavaikių šeimų vaikų profesinio kryptingumo ugdymo ir rengimo karjerai veiksnius kokybinio ir kiekybinio tyrimo metodų pagalba buvo nustatyta, kad:... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The research problem associated with the fact that public opinion is formed that large families unable to care for children education, children are focused on low-skilled occupations, with many families motivation creation system is dominated by economic factors (the possibility of obtaining social security benefits). The aim of work families with many children to investigate direction of vocational education, and peculiarities of their training career. Tasks of research: 1. Make large families of children in vocational education and training direction career literature review. 2. Investigate and analyze the direction of professional children's education and training career features marginalized, successful and social risk in large families. Object of research: families with many children in vocational education directional features. Methods of research: literature analysis and synthesis of large families qualitative phenomenological analysis of the results (type of test - qualitative phenomenological: descriptive, reflective, interpretive study examined the help of which people experience / experiences of the essence). The study of data collection selected semi-structured interview method. Respondents' demographic data were processed in Microsoft Excel software program (quantitative method). Results of researches: Examination and analysis of families with many children in vocational education and training direction career qualitative and quantitative research methods, it... [to full text]

In my thesis I will focus on issue of changes in current Czech family roles and status. Main objective of my thesis is to cover essential roots of these changes. This topic was covered by me on basis of statistical and demogarfical data published in professional press as well as on individual study of independent sources. Changes in the family values are also caused by interchanging roles of men and women, their individual participation in operation, education and economic welfare of a family. These topics are also covered in the paper.These issues will be analyzed in regard of social mobility and unequality of particular family members, which influences theis social nad cultural capital, as well as consecuent ability to assert themselves in labour market. Changes in economic and social conditions have influenced family life very substantially, thus, partial task of my diploma thesis will be research focused on whether or not, in economicaly and socialy deprived regiones with relatively high unemployment, there are changes in family life influenced by disadvantegous social and economic conditons of a particular family dwelling area. My conception of this diploma thesis should contribute to understanding of development of a Czech family in contemporary social-economic and geopolitical development of Czech Republic in new millenium.

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.

This thesis is focused on consequences which are associated with the loss of a breadwinner in the family. The aim is to identify and describe the impacts on families and compare these consequences in the cases of divorce and death. At first this paperwork brings information about family and its peculiarities. Other chapters are devoted to single-parent families as a result of a divorce, and death. In these chapters, we focused on the impacts of these two events. There are described primarily impacts on economic, social, educational and psychological aspects of the family. Information in this chapter are supported by excerpts from interviews that were conducted with several women, who have lost husbands, and thus became the breadwinners. The next chapter is devoted to the role of the state in this issue. It describes how family policy is designed and how the state directly compensates for the loss of a breadwinner in these two cases. The end of this chapter provides a brief description of family policy, focusing on the loss of a breadwinner in several other European Union states. The last chapter provides an analysis of the interviews, and there we can see what are the impacts on the family, which single mothers perceive. And what is the difference in impacts at these two events.

Although the White Paper on Families (2013) stipulates that family resilience should be strengthened in family preservation services, no guidelines exist for social workers in the South African context to do so. A need for practice guidelines for social workers in rendering services to families to strengthen family resilience was identified. The following central research question was formulated: How and by doing what, can social workers foster and sustain family resilience? The Intervention Design and Development (IDD) model of Rothman and Thomas (1994) was adapted for the study which included qualitative research to explore and describe the understanding, experiences and suggestions of social workers on family resilience for informing the family resilience intervention guidelines. Data was collected through focus- group and face-to-face semi-structured interviews with social workers employed by the Department of Social Development, and the NGOs from Gauteng, North West and Limpopo province. Tesch’s steps (cited in Creswell 2009:186) were used to analyse the data systematically and data was verified by Guba’s model (cited in Krefting 1991:214–222). Implementing steps 1–5 of phase 1, steps 1–3 of phase 2, step 2 of phase 3 and steps 1–3 of phase 4 of the IDD model, “Practice Guidelines for Social Workers to foster and sustain Family Resilience” (“The Guidelines”) were developed by translating the family resilience theory into practice to guide social workers to be able to develop and implement a family resilience intervention. The content of “The Guidelines” include an introduction containing the social work service delivery principles, the theoretical approaches of service delivery to families and the legislative and policy framework for services to families that would underpin a family resilience intervention. Section 1 of “The Guidelines” was developed and structured around the understanding of the family resilience construct and the family resilience process model on how family resilience operates. Section 2 of “The Guidelines” is presented in a question and answer format. This section provides practical guidelines on how to identify the target group for family resilience interventions, the reciprocal relationship between individual resilience and family resilience, family resilience interventions following the social work intervention process (i.e. intake, developmental assessment, a family developmental plan, and intervention strategies in accordance with the basket of services for families and monitoring and evaluation), how to integrate the domains of family resilience into the family resilience intervention, the need for education of both the social worker and client family on family resilience, the multi-dimensional aspects of the family requiring a multi-disciplinary approach and the role that the safety of family members play when rendering a family resilience intervention. / Social Work / D. Phil. (Social Work)