Between a feeling and a duty – on care within professional foster families
Between a feeling and a duty – on care within professional foster families

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study was an attempt to estimate the way and quality of the realization of vocational foster family functions in the character of family rescue. Fifty eight vocational foster families were included in the study, in which 207 children are being upbringed, coming from the natural families. The focus of the study was directed to the intervention and adaptive behavior of the foster parents. That is tasks that were aimed to fulfill biological, psychological and social needs of the children as well as cognitive ones. This also encompasses compensatory and medical treatment. The research showed (despite noted differences in the level of realizations of the particular tasks) that foster family as family rescue and care environment, optimally fulfill the crucial life and development needs of the foster children.

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