The thesis deals with the role of family in the course of coordinated rehabilitation. At present time, rehabilitation is understood not only as a medical care within the sphere of physiotherapy but also as an interdisciplinary activity which includes health-care, social-legal, pedagogical-psychological as well as work-related activities. Coordinated rehabilitation therefore requires cooperation of a team of involved specialists. This is not only about qualified experts but also about the disables person and his/her family. Family is the most important social group and the basic building stone of society. It fulfils the basic educational function, forms the attitudes of the child to itself, its loved ones and the whole world. Thus it fundamentally affects the society and on the contrary the society influences the family. That is why the family has to receive information necessary for the fulfilment of its functions (in particular when taking care of a disabled person), for example in the form of expert counselling. The objective of the work was to identify the role of family and its cooperation with counselling agencies within the process of coordinated rehabilitation. In addition to agencies taking care of handicapped persons, counselling institutions include also organisations whose social services are primarily provided to this target group. Qualitative research was used in the course of work on the empirical part. Input data were collected by the method of questioning, in particular by the technique of semi-structured interview. The research group consisted of thirteen social workers who provide expert social counselling or other social services primarily intended for handicapped persons. In connection with the objective of the thesis, the main research question was: What difficulties social workers identify when working with the family within the process of coordinated rehabilitation? The sub-question derived from the main research question was: What is the role of family within the counselling process from the perspective of a social worker? The results showed that social workers are satisfied with the families of users of the social service and confirm that cooperation between them is good. However, cooperation between social workers and the family differs significantly according to the type of provided services. The research also revealed that providers of social services in the course of their work with family encounter difficulties rather exceptionally. Still, social workers perceive as difficulties especially limits in the communication with family. Providers of social services try to build relations between them and the family of the user of the particular service and provide social support. Social workers perceive the role of family especially as being their communicating and cooperating partner. The research showed that the best cooperation and communication between social workers and the family of user of the social services is one based on a partnership level. The thesis identified the difficulties of social workers encountered during their work with families taking care of a handicapped person and suggested recommendations for more active involvement of families in dealing with a difficult life situation of its members. In addition, the thesis can serve as a basis for further quantitative research of this theme.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:252180 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | CHALUPOVĂ, Michaela |
| 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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