Naslov
Croatia: Child Caregivers in Transition

Autori
Žižak, Antonija

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), stručni

Izvornik
Proceedings of the International conference on residential child care : realities and dreams / Barlow, Gerald - Glasgow : Centre for Residential Child Care and the Contributors, 1999, 37-41

Skup
International conference on residential child care

Mjesto i datum
Glasgow, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 09.1996

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
child care; child caregivers; transition

Sažetak
The research that this paper is based upon, was intended to learn the ways in which child caregivers, from different types of children and youth homes in the Republic of Croatia, function and fulfil their role in exceptionally turbulent and uncertian times. The sample examinees were 92 group child caregivers from 9 children and youth homes. The main tool to examine the functioning of caregivers has been the Questionnaire for Caregivers designed on the basis of integrated theoretical facts (Lahad, 1993 ; Lazarus, 1991 ; Horowitz, 1993 ; and others) about ways people function in crisis situations, accidents and uncertaintes, and how they live and act in conditions of prolonged uncertainty. The results of which have been preliminary and partially presented in this paper, were undertaken with an intention to describe the way of functioning of child caregivers in different types of residential care homes for children and youth, in times burdened with crisis and uncertainty. Those perceptions can indirectly provide information about which ways of confrotation they adopt and which values and types of socialization the child caregivers mediate trough their caregiving role. It is evident that the caregivers of the observed sample group were educated and socialized for a society and life that does not exist any more (which is easiest described as a collectivist society in which avoidance of uncertainty was extremely high), in that case a lot of emotionally and socially ineffective strategies and helplessness could have been expected (Oettingen, 1995). Presented results, however, do not confirm those kind of expectations. Several interpretations could be found for that.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pedagogija

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