Pomoc i wsparcie dla rodzin zastępczych w środowisku lokalnym

A family is the basic envi­ronment of education and childcare. However, when parents are not able to fulfil care and educational functions, tasks of a natural family are performed by foster care, carried out among by fos­ter families. Admitting of the child to the own family is preceded by a process of qualifications and specialized training, organized for foster families by the or­ganizer of family foster care. But even the best theoretical training cannot pro­tect against a variety of behavioral prob­lems and care which foster parents en­counter, hence it becomes necessary to support and assistance the families who take the trouble to care for abandoned and orphaned children. The article pres­ents the measures implemented to sup­port foster families in the local commu­nity for the actions taken in 2012–2013 in the city of Rzeszów by the organizer of family foster care.

Personalistyczne postrzeganie małżeństwa i rodziny profilaktyką współczesnych niebezpieczeństw zagrażających rodzinie

Personalism is a philosophical school of thought focused on thorough considerations around the human being. A few types and branches of personal­ism can be distinguished, for example by country of origin and development of thought, or by the analysis of differ­ent elements that constitute a human be­ing. On Polish ground, it is the teaching of St. John Paul II that deserves partic­ular attention. On the basis of a specific view on human beings in their integral and social dimension, personalism for­mulates a characteristic vision of mar­riage and family. It emphasizes the un­derstanding of family as a communi­ty of people, it teaches of the specificity of a relationship between a man and a woman, which leads to a tradition­al way of defining marriage and fami­ly. Consideration of biological, psycho­logical and spiritual dimensions of the functioning of a human being triggers a complex approach towards family. This means that it is the basis for deter­mining rules of psychological and spiri­tual establishment of marriage and fam­ily bonds. It also concerns the way of raising children, at the same time be­coming a special place for personal up­bringing. Reminding and promoting the abovementioned understanding of fam­ily can be a means of preventing threats of the modern world. This means that it can prevent the destruction of a family, as well as any attempts to redefine mar­riage and family – present in current so­cial reality. It can influence the process of supporting marriage and family with regard to appropriate communication, dealing with marriage crisis and with upbringing children. The way to per­form those preventive and supporting actions should first of all be the period of preparation for marriage, in a broad and direct aspect. Apart from that, in­cluding it in the constant formation of families may constitute a specific form of protection.

Profilaktyczna praca socjalna wobec kryzysów w rodzinie

The contemporary social work is being carried out wielowymiarowo. However she is directed in great mea­sure at action emergency, requiring in­volving many services, specialists and the institution as well as centres. Social politicians in harmony are raising an alarm for strengthening precautions, as more effective and in consequence also and cheaper in the financial dimen­sion. In the present article they made the presentation of two methods of the preventive social work with the family; of Conference of the Family Group and family mediation, pointing to benefits from applying them.

Zakres wsparcia pomocy społecznej oferowanej rodzinom wielodzietnym i niepełnym w województwie mazowieckim

The field of help offered for the large families and one ­parent family in the mazowieckie voivodship can be an­alysed included their aspects: financial support, material aid and helping family programs. Such a help could be consid­ered when will be included the housing situation of the family, help guaranteed because of they have got a children or the programs realized for them by dif­ferent local government unit.

Wsparcie dziecka w sytuacji rozwodu rodziców

The parents’ divorce consti­tutes a threat to the mental, emotion­al and social development of the child. Research done hitherto points to direct and deferred negative consequences of divorce for all family members, espe­cially the youngest ones, susceptible to the influence of others – the children. This difficult crisis situation is reflect­ed in the behaviour of the adults who are experiencing it. Adult children of divorcing parents frequently live with the stigma of a child who is rejected and unloved. As a result, they function ab­normally in families of their own. It is therefore important to provide special support for the children whose parents have decided to divorce. Family me­diation is a good opportunity to set­tle the material and social situation of these families. Mediation meetings can help parents realize the mistakes they make which arise from very high lev­els of negative emotions resulting from the break ­up. This article aims to show the effects of the parents’ divorce on the children and to show specific ways to as­sist them in overcoming this crisis sit­uation. One of the suggestions of sup­port is the use of therapeutic fairy tales to explain to children the new family situation in which they find themselves. Proceeding from this assumption, the authors of the article decided to gather the opinions of parents and their chil­dren about fairy tales about divorce. For this purpose we have employed a ques­tionnaire of our own as well as fairy tales written for children of divorcing parents.

Trudności w realizacji ról rodzicielskich rodziców dzieci z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną

The paper presents the results of research on difficulties in realization of parental roles of parents of children with intellectual disabilities. The au­thor has surveyed 222 parents of chil­dren with intellectual disabilities, includ­ing 111 mothers and 111 fathers. The re­search was completed in 2013 and 2014 in the Lublin Province. On the basis of parents’ declarations it can be seen that most respondents did not encounter dif­ficulties in the professional sphere or the sphere of marriage, but in tasks connect­ed with raising a child with a disability. Problems that appear in parenting chil­dren with disabilities concern most of­ten health care services, rehabilitation and the way the disabled are treated by others.

Pułapka współuzależnienia w rodzinie z problemem alkoholowym

A family faced with alcohol de­pendence of its member most often does not take any action to solve the problem. This is mainly due to the lack of knowl­edge about co ­dependency of all people living under one roof with the addict. The spouse/partner as well as children of the addicted individual feel shame as they are blamed by the person abusing alcohol for the situation, and that hin­ders or cripples any attempts to solve the problem. Times of drinking and associat­ed fighting, aggression and violence are interspersed with “honeymoon ­like pe­riods”, so family members are convinced that one day the addiction will end and “things will somehow turn out right”. It is not only the drinking person but also his/her closest relatives who deny there is a problem if the fact is pointed out and confirmed by anyone outside the family. Despite the suffering and damage caused by the lack of the drinking person’s con­cern for his/her family as well as his/her absence and disengagement from the daily routines, the spouse/partner and the children put on “masks” and claim there is no problem. The greatest trag­edy of children living in a family with a drinking problem is the fact that, with­out being aware of it, they continue to play the same roles in their adult life, as ACA. An addicted person may de­cide to stop drinking only if they admit full responsibility for the effects of their own lack of control over drinking which leads to significant damage on a person­al and family level, exposing everyone to suffering and harm. Of great impor­tance in motivating an alcoholic to re­main sober is a short family intervention during a meeting in a group of people significant for the addict. The essence of co ­dependency may be explained using a case study showing the attempts made by a wife trying to justify behaviours of her husband who abuses alcohol.

Rodzina współczesna - dysonans pomiędzy preferowanym modelem życia a znaczeniem życia rodzinnego

In the work the chosen as­pect of sociological empirical research, carried out among the students of the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra and among students of the University of Silesia in Katowice, con­cerned their opinion on family life in the contemporary world and their preferred model of life and plans concerning mar­riage in the future

Religijność a osobnicza perspektywa względem rodziny i względem doświadczeń w rodzinie - ujęcie psychologiczne

It has been assumed that re­ligiousness is one of the factors that are instrumental (though not normative) in shaping the life of an individual in a con­scious way. In an attempt to determine what role family plays in human life, the above ­mentioned factor was perceived as vital in shaping the senses and mean­ing assigned to the family by an individ­ual. The studies (presented in the con­text of life ­span developmental psychol­ogy) have an exploratory character and constitute an attempt to demonstrate and establish the type of relationship that exists between the cognitive per­spective of an individual on the selected aspects of family life and the level and style of their religiousness. The meth­ods applied: Questionnaire on the place of family in the course of life – MRŻ (Katedra Psychologii UPJPII – the Chair of Psychology, Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków 2015 – exper­imental version) author’s own design and Questionnaire on religiousness (by C. Walesa et al., KUL, 2014). The talk is going to include a presentation and a de­tailed study of selected cases chosen out of several dozens of completed question­naires (the respondents included people from three age groups: early, middle and late adulthood).

Separacja prawna małżeństwa w kontekście nietrwałości małżeństwa ponowoczesnego

The changes in the postmod­ern world significantly influenced on the marriage and family. Impermanence of the marital bond is the characteristic for contemporary relations in marriage. „Society of risk” puts on the individual the duty of creating his/her own bibliog­raphy and marriage becomes not a con­struct but a process. The object of in­terest of the paper is separation of mar­riage. The name of the phenomena de­scribes the factual and the legal state of the spouses which appeared after the breakdown of the life together. Legal in­stitution of separation is a specific legal figure which, in the perspective of a so­ciety, places the individuals in the state of suspension. Uniqueness of the state reminds the liminal phase distinguished in the process of ceremonies of passage (Arnold van Gennep). Every significant event in the life of a man, it is a passage from one social state to another (which is strictly defined). Liminal stage is a pe­riod of exclusion – to be in the between. Legal separation can be depicted as a pe­riod of some kind of marginalization of an individual. It uniqueness is built on this that an individual can ultimately define himself/herself by restoration of marital life. In this case it will be recon­stitution function of separation. The per­son can take decision about termination of his/her marriage by divorce. There is also possibility of remaining in separa­tion without any determination of the period of its ending. The aim of the pa­per is the try to get the answer on following question: does the institution of sep­aration favour the stability of marriage?