Families which tend to face various problems are commonly called the families at risk. This term is widely used both in official acts of law, both by public institutions ensuring the protection of rights of children and giving social support for families. Social Services act of 2006 provides the definition of family at risk which we are using in this Work. We could exclude such risks: addiction, lack of responsibility or social skills as well as psychological, physical and sexual abuse against children.
The analysis of the needs of families at risk is extremely relevant nowadays, when support of families at risk ensuring rights of children they are growing is priority field of the Country. It was expected that qualitative research of the needs of families at risk would induce the deeper recognition of families at social exclusion because we would try to look to various expressions from their point of view. Deeper perception of the needs of families at risk would help social workers in preventive and interventional work with these families.
The aim of this Work is on the ground of qualitative research to disclose the needs of families at risk, the causes of dismissal of those needs and the support provided for families at social exclusion.
During the analysis we use the ethnographic qualitative research method. For the collection of documents two methods – interview (group and individual) and observation – were used. Eight families participated in the analysis and twelve... [to full text]
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20061214_131350-66991 |
Date | 14 December 2006 |
Creators | Dirsienė, Loreta |
Contributors | Navaitis, Gediminas, Pivorienė, Jolanta, Čiužas, Antanas, Žemaitaitytė, Irena, Aleksonienė, Asta, Kairienė, Brigita, Šinkūnienė, Jautrė Ramutė, Mykolas Romeris University |
Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Mykolas Romeris University |
Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
Language | Lithuanian |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Master thesis |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20061214_131350-66991 |
Rights | Unrestricted |
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