Course: Institutes of Alternative family care

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Course title Institutes of Alternative family care
Course code KPG/NKNRP
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Šmelová Eva, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Pitnerová Dagmar, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Matušková Linda, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Defining concepts concerning Substitute Family Care. History of Substitute Family Care and its evolution. Pedagogical and psychological aspects of Substitute Family Care. Positive and negative factors of Substitute Family Care and theirs consequences. Legal elements of Substitute Family Care. A placing a child in Substitute Family Care. Substitute Family Care researches. Institutions that participate to mediate Substitute Family Care in Czech Republic. Comparison Substitute Family Care in Czech Republic and in abroad. Main legal pillars of Substitute Family Care (especially Act No. 94/1963 Coll., on family, as amended; Act No. 359/1999 Coll., on social and legal protection of children, as amended).

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
Learning outcomes
Before the completion this discipline students should be able to: (After passing this course/discipline students should be able to: ) describe Substitute Family Care (especially its evolution) describe and elucidate forms of Substitute Family Care and their legal elements in Czech Republic to elucidate process of placing a child in Substitute Family Care (requirements to ?parents?, opinions of child) consider problems of Substitute Family Care in some particular cases

Prerequisites
Course has no special requirements on students.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Seminar Work

Analysis of placing a child in Substitute Family Care in relation to current legislative aspects. To write a comparative study about Substitute Family Care in Czech Republic and in abroad.
Recommended literature
  • BALVÍN, J. (1997). Rómové a dětské domovy: sborník z 8. setkání Hnutí R: Děčín a Františkov nad Ploučnicí,. Ústí na Labem.
  • KOLUCHOVÁ, J. (1989). Diagnostika a reparabilita psychické deprivace. Praha.
  • KOLUCHOVÁ, J. (2002). Osvojení a pěstounská péče. Praha.
  • KOVAŘÍK, J. (2004). Náhradní rodinná péče v praxi. Praha.
  • LANGMEIER, J. (1974). Psychická deprivace v dětství. Praha.
  • MATĚJČEK, Z. (1999). Náhradní rodinná péče. Praha.
  • MATĚJČEK. Z. (1997). Pozdní následky deprivace a subdeprivace. Praha.
  • SOBOTKOVÁ, I. (2003). Pěstounské rodina a jejich fungování. Praha.
  • ŠKOVIERA, A. (2007). Dilemata náhradní výchovy: teorie a praxe výchovné péče o děti v rodině a v dětských domovech. . Praha.


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