Annual of social work, Vol. 1 No. 1, 1994.
Original scientific paper
PSYCHIC DIFFICULTIES OF REFUGEE CHILDREN PLACED IN FAMILIES PROVIDING SHELTER ("FOSTER” FAMILIES)
Josip Janković
; Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Magdalenić
; Department of Social Work Faculty of Law University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper deal with psychic effects the war in Croatia in 1991/92 had on displaced children living in "foster” families in the Zagreb region. The data used were collected during work on a project on how to ojfer refugees help in psycho-social adaptation. At the beginning, the research included 91 children living in dijferent families in Zagreb. Due to the continuous attacks by the aggressor, this eventually increased to 697. Within the particular groups ofsuch children, a different level ofpost-traumatic symptoms wasfound. The list madefor the research contained 42 symptoms. The percentage of children with one or more symptoms rangedfrom 38.3 to 67%. It is very significant that the children placed in different families without their parents showedfewer symptoms than those who stayed in such families with their mothers or otherfamily members. In this paper, the authors have tried to define the causes of the existing problems and possible means to their solution.
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Hrčak ID:
198086
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Publication date:
9.12.1994.
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