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MENTAL REPRESENTATION OF PARENTS OF CHILDREN IN INSTITUTIONAL CARE Abstract of dissertation Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education, Psychology Department Supervisor: PhDr. Irena Smetáčková, Ph.D. Author: Mgr. Lucie Myšková Most children in institutional care have their families and are in contact with them, but for various reasons these children grow up in a familycan not. We know from scientific works, that there is usually a cold atmosphere, weak interest in children, or violence in these families. But children placed in institutional care positive express of parents, practice show and it is known, that children, who do not live with their parents, idealize them. Children selected in the study were in development of the older school age, which is characterized among other critical look at adults. The work is based on the above-mentioned ambivalence and focuses on the mental representation of parents ofolder school children placed in institutional care. The theme is monitored by using several methods (questionnaire, drawing, interview, determining polarities). The obtained data were quantitative - qualitative processed and compared with similar data obtained in a group of children growing up in a family. It was found that ideas of parents of older school age children living in institutional... |
