The thesis aims at acquiring relevant information concerning the motivation of clients, their guardians or statutory representatives for the choice of residential service. Research question: Why do families leave clients in the care of residential facility of social services even though they have knowledge, skills, and material potential to provide the care of their members in the family? The theoretical part of the thesis defines basic terms and briefly describes the Home for Persons with Disabilities in Zběšičky. The sample consists of families of clients that are interested in their family members and continually cooperate with the Home for Persons with Disabilities in Zběšičky. It is a quota sampling where quotas are conditioned by the interest and cooperation of family members. When elaborating the practical part I chose the qualitative research strategy because of the sensitivity of acquired data and with the view of the ethically very problematic area of study. In-depth interviews with clients? families were selected as the questioning method. Interview transcripts, notes from the dates etc. were given to the thesis supervisor Ing. Lucie Kozlová, Ph.D. at her disposal upon the agreement of communication partners while a promise was given that they would not be handed over to a third person. Only the data coming from the communication partners who had agreed with their processing into the final version and had answered all questions by the end of the data acquisition were used as the results of the diploma thesis. The results of this thesis displayed that families have not come through the whole process of the coping ? admission of the child and have chosen passive and escapist strategies in which they remain. They rationalize their decision by pointing out the necessity of the provision of indispensable complex care which they cannot provide to the clients at home, the demanding character of the care, the presently worsening health state of the carers, the inevitability of care of client?s siblings etc. By the placement in the residential service with regular visits of the client at home, the persisting ambivalent relations to the client manifest themselves together with the necessity to maintain the contact and saturate emotional needs at least in this way. A combination of several factors influences the decision to place there their family member. The placement of a client in the residential service is understood by the families as the final and definitive solution. Therefore passive attitudes to possible changes prevail and families conform to changing demands from the social services providers only unwillingly. With difficulties they get accustomed to the change of the attitude of the society oriented from the paternalist concept of social work towards the assumption of responsibility and active solution of proper situation. It is obvious from the interviews that families have potential, knowledge and skills to take care of their handicapped family members in the home environment, but they refuse the permanent care. In the course of in-depth interviews, I have managed to get into a more intensive relationship and cooperation with clients? families. Knowledge acquired is a valuable feedback for the assessment of the quality of provided care and for the adaptation to the real needs of the clients and their families. Moreover, the results have influenced the ongoing process of quality standards revision and amended methodical materials in the facility. In the spirit of humanizing and transformation changes in the facility, common education of facility employees and our clients? families has been intensively prepared and common meetings of families have been supported in a more substantial way. An increased care is now dedicated to carers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:154757 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | SVAČINOVÁ, Jana |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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