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The topic of this thesis concerns with working with parents of children in educational care center. Of children who absolved eight weeks long boarding stay at boarding ward of an educational care center. The children were accepted to the boarding stay based on their parents' request due to the children's problematic behavior. Qualitative research method was applied, and the chosen method of data collection was a semi-structured analysis, which was then split into two parts. The first part took place with a parent, when his or her child was starting his or her stay at the boarding educational care center. The second part, when the child's stay was over. Goal of the research was, based on parents' statements, to find out answers to the following questions: 1. What were the reasons for child's stay at educational boarding care center and what were the parents' expectations of this stay. 2. Possible factors influencing onset of problematic behavior. 3. Impact of parental groups. 4. Effect on parents' way of raising children after their absolving of parental groups sessions. 5. Potentials and limits of parental groups. The research shows that the most frequent reason for children staying at boarding educational care center was disrespect towards authorities and rules in general. Of their children the... |