Annual of social work, Vol. 1 No. 1, 1994.
Original scientific paper
PROBLEMS OF FAMILIES PROVIDING SHEFTER AND DIFFICUETIES OF REFUGEE CHILDREN
Ivan Magdalenić
; Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Josip Janković
; Department of Social Work Faculty of Law University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The authors present the data on the frequency of symptoms indicating psychological dijficulties ofchildren living without parents or other adult members oftheir ownfamily, takenfrom theproject called “Psychological and Social Protection andHelpforDisplaced Mothers and Children Fiving in Different Families”. The some data are Hnked with the intensity ofchanges andproblems, showing that symptoms ofpsychological dijficulties are more frequent with children placed in such families, because the families themselves have, as a result, gone through internal changes (disturbances). They are faced with financial, psychological and various other problems. The differences in the number ofsymptoms are neither big nor statistically significant. The number of such families is also smaller than expected (one third has undergone some internal changes and two thirds have various problems). The resulting conclusion is that, in someparticular circumstances, we can depart from the strict criteria for the choice of such families, withoutfear of causing harm to the children.
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Hrčak ID:
198083
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Publication date:
9.12.1994.
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