View upon own childhood by children and youth with behavioral disorders, or those at risk of behavioral disorder development Cover Image

Pogled na vlastito djetinjstvo djece i mladih s poremećajima u ponašanju ili u riziku na razvoj poremećaja
View upon own childhood by children and youth with behavioral disorders, or those at risk of behavioral disorder development

Author(s): Nivex Koller-Trbović, Liliana Kalčić-Galeković
Subject(s): Education, Family and social welfare, Inclusive Education / Inclusion
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet
Keywords: Quality methodology; children/youth with behavior disorders and/or at risk of behavior disorders development; childhood;

Summary/Abstract: The method of quality analysis of the half-structured interview transcripts was used to provide an insight in the way in whic 40 children and youth aged 12-20 look upon their own childhood. These are children and youth who, because of certain risks in their environment, personality and/or behavior, were placed into some institutional level of assessment of the need for fu u interventions Today, there exist numerous insights and theories about the childhood and development of children and youth with behavior disorders, or those at risk of behavior disorders development, which mainly confirm widely known theses, the childhood and development of these children in their families is burdened by myriad problems, pathologies and nonfunctional,ty. These usually intensify with time, and this leads to separation of the child from his/herfamily, whether because of inadequacies in upbringing, or because of appearance, development, and fixture of child’s behavior disorders. So, the researches haves own that the childhood of these children differs from usual, adequate childhood patterns. Based upon these data, this research started with the expectation that these children and youth, respondents in the research, will have mostly a negative view upon heir own childhood, because they have had numerous negative experiences. The results partially confirmed the The data have shown that childhood memories, descriptions of life course, and experiences in families of these children youth are indeed burdened by problematic situations, events, relationships and changes, which most often resulted in prob e related to family survival and!or problem development in children leading to social interventions, However the data havetabo shown that, in spite of such hard and painful events, experiences and memories, their view on their own childhood and family is not necessarily so negative. For data storing and analysis, the Nvivo computer program for text quality analysis was used.

  • Issue Year: 40/2005
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 3-16
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Croatian