The thesis focuses on supported protected housing for persons with learning disabilities and the personal experience of such persons using various types of such housing. The first chapter contains the theoretical basis of this topic and its subchapters list certain trends in social services. It contains the definition of the expression supported protected housing for persons with learning disabilities and its individual types. Chapter two focuses on the users of the social services consisting in provision of supported protected housing for persons with learning disabilities. Its first subchapter focuses on the expression of adulthood, the other subchapters then deal with psychological characteristics and particular features of persons with learning disabilities. Chapter three contains the research. It contains the justification of the research issue, stipulates the objective of the thesis, and defines the research questions. Its subchapters discuss the research methods and describe the place where the research has taken place. The method of selection of research respondents and the respondents selected are described. Chapter four contains the presentation of the individual participants of the research through case studies and the written transcript of the interviews with them, containing the...

Syftet med intervjustudien är att undersöka hur personal på skyddat boende upplever sitt nuvarande arbete med barnen samt hur de tror att deras arbete kan påverkas av de nya lagändringarna som framförs i propositionen “Stärkta rättigheter för barn och vuxna i skyddat boende”, med utgångspunkt i att barn ska få egna placeringsbeslut. Empirin har samlats in genom intervjuer med åtta personal på olika skyddade boenden, såväl ideella som privata. Resultatet har analyserats utifrån professionsteori, handlingsutrymme och yrkeskompetens. Resultatet visar att personalen på skyddat boende har ett relativt stort handlingsutrymme i arbetet med barnen eftersom det inte finns någon reglering kring hur arbetet ska bedrivas. De arbetar för att barnen ska få känna en trygghet i att de befinner sig på en plats fri från våld och för att barnen ska känna sig inkluderade. Resultatet visar även att stöd och hjälp till barn ser olika ut beroende på vilket skyddat boende de befinner sig på eftersom kraven att arbeta med barnen, och därmed kompetensen och resurserna, varierar. Att barn ska få egna placeringsbeslut välkomnas av de flesta respondenterna då det ger upphov till tydliga riktlinjer i arbetet med barnen. Det framkommer dock farhågor kring att vissa barnhandläggare på socialtjänsten brister i kompetens om våld, samt att det kommer att leda till kortare placeringstider på grund av ekonomiska skäl. / The aim of study is to examine how staff in sheltered housing perceive their current work with children and how they believe their work may be affected by the new legislative changes proposed in the bill "Strengthened Rights for Children and Adults in Sheltered Housing", based on that children individually are going to grant a placement decision. The data were collected through interviews with a total of eight professionals in various sheltered housing facilities, both voluntary women's shelters and privately operated sheltered housing. The results were analyzed based on professional theory, discretion and professional competence. The findings indicate that professionals in sheltered housing have a relatively large discretion in working with children, as there is no regulation governing how the work should be conducted. They work to ensure that children feel secure in a place free from violence and to make them feel included. The results also show that support and assistance for children can vary depending on the specific sheltered housing facility, because the requirements to work with the children, and thus the skills, vary. Most professionals welcome that children individually are going to grant a placement decision, as it provides clear guidelines for working with children. However, there is a concern about social services child welfare workers lacking expertise in handling violence, and that the placement times are going to be shorter due to economic circumstances.

The Master's dissertation entitled Limitation of legal capacity for persons with disabilities examines problematics of rights and obligations of clients in protected housing and housing for people with disabilities. The thesis is divided into two parts: theoretical and practical. Basic concepts that are connected to legal capacity are outlined in the theoretical part. These are followed by the rights and obligations of the client and the institute of guardianship. Concepts of mental retardation and its diagnosis and methods of working with people with mental disabilities are outlined as well. The end of the theoretical part of the dissertation deals with the approach to deinstitutionalisation. The method of qualitative research was employed within the research survey. Data were obtained by the method of questioning and technique of semi-structured interviews. The research sample consists of addressing two facilities with constitutional service and two facilities with community service. The main aim of the practical part of the thesis is to compare how people with mental disabilities are limited by legal capacity in housing for people with disabilities and protected housing with appointed guardians. Semi-structured interviews and document studies serve as a help to support this aim. Acquired data...

This diploma thesis is to acquaint with people with intellectual disability. Basicaly it deals with terminology associated with intelectual disability, definitions, types of intellectual disability, symptoms and causes. One of the chapters is devoted to the principles of communication of people with mental disabilities and auxiliary communication techniques. Next it focuses on Portus organization, which has been working with this target group for over 20 years. It provides several social services, about which we gathered basic information and based them on the law on social services. The last chapter in the theoretical part is devoted to the burnout syndrome, which is in the opinion of helping professions and in social work, not least, a more common phenomenon than we can imagine. The investigation itself took place in the above- mentioned organization, where I distributed questionnaires on satisfaction with the services to several groups of respondents. In the practical part, I evaluated these questionnaires and evaluated them with other services. The evaluation showed that the clients are satisfied with the support provided and the employees and guardians (family members) perceive the situation in a very similar way. Nevertheless, several suggestions for change could be used from this survey,...