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The single-parent family is a major problem of contemporary society. In the last decades the number of single parent families has increased considerably, this is generated by the large number of divorces, the migration of parents, but also death. The emotional development of children who come from single parent families has to suffer, because they fail to learn their behavior patterns, norms and beliefs, which will help them in forming their own personality. The article includes a comprehensive analysis based on extensive qualitative research; the specific techniques were: the documentation, case study, individual counselling, semi-structured interview, applied to 20 monoparental families in Caraş-Severin County, resulting from distinct situations: divorce, death and abroad migration of one of the parents. The results of the research demonstrate the difficulties faced by children from single-parent families and underline their emotional needs. The lack of a parent causes problems of communication of adaptation and of social integration. Children from single parent families should enjoy the same protection and understanding, the same love, even if they do not have both parents.
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Domestic violence is a major problem of contemporary society. The number of abused women is constantly increasing, and this is due to several factors: the lack of involvement of the authorities in order to adopt laws, to protect the victims of domestic violence, the lack of counseling programs for abused women in order to overcome experiences. traumatizing and social reintegration, excessive jealousy, alcohol, the inferiority position of the woman, etc. Violence in the family environment has repercussions, both on the woman and on the children, because in the absence of behavioral models worthy to be followed, they can see the violence as a normality, which they then apply in their own families. The effects of domestic violence are devastating for children who have been victims of witnessing violent scenes within the family. Child abuse has long-term effects, adolescence, and later adult life is marked by this phenomenon, behavioral patterns and family climate can be real milestones in setting up their own families. This study involves extensive bibliographic documentation and extensive analysis of the effects of domestic violence on children. The quantitative research consisted in applying an questionnaire to 20 people from Reșița Municipality, Caraș-Severin county, who were witnesses or victims of domestic violence during their childhood.
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Paper presents music therapy as a supportive therapy in work with children placed in institutional care. Due to the type of research, we applied the so-called orientation research. Its aim was to find out how music therapy programs for children in substitute institutional care take place,through the mediated professional experience of selected music therapists. As a method of data collection, we used a semi-structured interview with three music therapists working with children in a substitute institutional care. We found out that music therapists differ with respect to the applied degree of directive and structure of the music therapy process, but they are united by a commonly named experience based on the specifics of the target group. Music therapy is recommended as a supportive therapy for children in institutional care with respect to the specifics of this target group,who know and respect the possible process of therapy effectively. We recommend continuing the research, expanding the research set, applying other methods of data collection and focusing more closely on selected process aspects of the music therapy process.
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This paper aims to use a number of sociological perspectives and theories in order to examine how they can be interpreted in the context of childhood/preadolescence and adolescence. Given that sociology is the science that studies society as a whole but also in its components, the chosen sociological theories can be interpreted and adapted to the age segment we are concerned with, namely children/preadolescents and adolescents. Thus, the flexibility of sociological perspectives and theories is observed in terms of the fact that they can be used as a theoretical framework to guide the researcher in the undertaken approach.
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Control or supervision, in management terms, involves setting standards and expectations, performance monitoring and performance evaluation, develop corrective actions. Control can be personal, based on direct, personal and impersonal supervision, meaning control of system results. In the field of social services, control is known as supervision, this being one of the specific characteristics of social assistance. The efficient functioning of the integrated social services system provides the implementation of the culture of professional supervision and performance evaluation for the employees of the social assistance system, organized on areas of responsibility and competence levels. Professional supervision is an important component of the social assistance system and is intended for staff who are directly involved in the provision of social services to beneficiaries. Supervision is one of the methods of periodic evaluation and allows us to observe how an activity is carried out and also shows us how to reorient it, if necessary. It is a method of observing (not a checklist or a study) the quality of the process at a given time. Supervision takes place formally at regular intervals.
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Given the aging of the French population, more and more elderly people find themselves in a situation of incapacity requiring the intervention of family carers. A multidisciplinary research project on the longitudinal monitoring of a cohort of family caregivers whose elderly relative has been diagnosed with a chronic pathology (cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, cardiac pathologies, AMD), the ICE cohort (Informal Carers of the Elderly), was initiated in Burgundy Franche-Comté (France). The objective is to analyze the life trajectory of caregivers, highlighting the repercussions on family life, social life, professional life, etc. Primary results show that the new responsibilities of carers take a toll and that the family relationship may give way to a feeling dominated by obligation, constraint, renouncements (leisure, work, social relationships, etc.) which can vary depending on the pathology of the person cared for. There are, however, positive effects. The activity of caregiving strengthens the bond with the person being helped.
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Man has the ability to be receptive to everything that lies around him, as he is influenced by the good news or by the bad news, by a threat or by a promise, and what affects him changes his mood. We are susceptible to the ability of music to change our mood. When we listen to music together, dance or sing together it is as if we touch our souls. Throughout history, in music there have been groups, trends and organizations that have changed the social aspirations of the masses through messages for people’s change and revolution that have turned into movements destined to change the social order and systems. The ancients said that the music had the role of mirroring the soul of the community. The sociological research of the musical phenomenon penetrates the reality, analyzing the reactivity towards music and the importance of the musical factor in daily, current life, especially in the educational process, and if we were to state the functions of music, among them we could mention: the social function (since music leads to some extent to social cohesion), the psychological function (creates a framework of mental comfort), the economic function (since it is still an industry), the affective function (induces emotional states, memories, etc.) and the educational function (music, as part of a specific culture, can provide certain information). Thus, given these functions, it can be seen that music is a necessary cultural product in life and to which man has assigned great importance.
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The relation between memory and truth is not as direct as we are used to perceive it. In this paper I have analysed some of the distortions that can appear in the memory processes, emphasizing that not all that we remember is connected to reality. The analysis shows differences between false memory, which as opposed to lying implies the intention of the witness to tell the truth. Some studies are presented, which analysed the sources of memory contamination, from the legal psychology area. Some examples are false memories induced by the investigator through suggestive and manipulative questions or through offering a feedback throughout the declaration and memory contamination after the event through the information exposed to the witness (including discussions with other witnesses). It is utopic to detect lie, when the witness is convinced he is telling the truth. Therefore, we must retain the fact that not all those that are not telling the truth, are actually lying. In the second part of the study I presented the results of some studies which show that not even the practitioners are not that good at lie detection. It is a good practice not to trust our hunch or experience. At least, always have the responsibility to doubt them. A lot of the simulated behaviours are identical with those associated with high distress. Finally, I have formulated some recommendations of best practices based on the results presented in this article.
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The paper deals with the personality of a teacher who has a dominant role in forming classroom relationships. Teaching profession, education and school as such are constantly changing, evolving, adapting in our modern age. However, something does not change and it would only hurt if it changed. We mean that pupils and teachers meet "live" in the learning process. In the contribution we focus on the personality characteristics of the teacher and his professional competences from the point of view of pupils' perception. Attention was also paid to perceiving the characteristics and competencies perceptions of perceptions of teacher authority.
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This article explores several scholar sources as well as studies conducted by authors and their own research in Centre for Diagnostics, Therapy and Prevention of FAS. The presented study interprets a first research in Slovak Republic that focused on prevention of FASD in selected targeted groups. The outcome reflects a current situation in the group identified as an intact group of population, mostly university students, professionals, primary and elementary students. The aim of the study was to confirm that the population of Slovak Republic understood the concept of „fetal alcohol syndrome“. This study submits the first partial research results.
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Extremism as a social phenomenon can only occur if there is an individual need for it and if it solves specific problems of individuals. The article discusses sources of extremism as they may appear in the needs and mental world of pubescent boys. The author confronts the developmental theories of Piaget, Kohlberg, Fowler and May and shows the influence of their interaction on the minds of teenage boys and girls.
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A framework law on preschool education in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2007 requires all preschool institutions to apply and practice inclusion as well as the compulsory preschool education in a year before children start school. The same law emphasizes that children with developmental disabilities should be included in preschool institutions according to programs adapted to their individual needs. Namely, the goal of applying inclusion in kindergartens is directed towards giving every child the opportunity to progress following their abilities. In that sense, to realize inclusion it is necessary to provide important preassumptions such as curriculum, methods of work, didactic tools, professionally educated team, and permanent assistants in individual assistance. Children with developmental difficulties deal with additional discrimination because most preschool institutions do not have the above-mentioned preassumptions for work and they are often excluded from the educational process. To find the solution to this problem, the focus of this paper is aimed at choosing a curriculum that will enable each child with an equal opportunity in life. In this context, a group of experts who completed the Montessori specialization have created the Integrated Preschool Adaptive Curriculum (IPAC) that is intended for inclusive kindergarten groups. The basis for its development was the contextual and dynamic assessment of abilities, knowledge, and skills of children who attended kindergarten a year earlier and worked according to the methodology of Montessori teaching and techniques. In this paper, we intend to present the results of a three-year study that was based on examining the impact of the Integrated Preschool Adaptive Curriculum (IPAC) on children's readiness to go to school. Readiness in this context considers reaching a certain degree of maturity in cognitive, socio-emotional, and physical development as well as in specific abilities in the cultural, hygienic, and work habits domain.
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The study aimed to examine the relationship between the personality traits of parents (mothers and fathers) and their preschool children, to determine if there are a correlation and similarity in the personality traits of parents and their children. Also, the study aimed to explore whether the personality traits of parents (mother and father) are significant predictors of the personality traits of their preschool children. The sample consisted out of 150 children of preschool age and 150 fathers and 150 mothers. The personality characteristics of the children were assessed by their parents by completing the M5-PS-90 (Grist & McCord 2006), and afterward, parents assessed their personality traits through the Scale PMF (Kardum & Smojver 1993). The correlation analysis results showed that there are statistically significant positive correlation and similarity in emotional response, then in the degree of socialization, friendliness, conscientiousness, and intellectual openness between mothers and their preschool children, and there are statistically significant positive correlation and similarity in the degree of socialization and conscientiousness between fathers and their children of preschool age, as well. The results of the regression analysis suggested that maternal neuroticism is a statistically significant predictor for neuroticism in children, as well as a statistically significant negative predictor to form the traits of a child's extraversion and that its intellectual openness is a statistically significant positive predictor for quality of conscientiousness and intellectual openness. The results of the regression analysis also showed that the father’s extraversion is a statistically significant positive predictor to form the extraversion trait in children.
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Statistical reports show that there is an increasing number of registered juvenile delinquents in the society of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aim of this paper is to stimulate interest in better and more extensive research and study of this phenomenon and possible relevant solutions in the resocialization of juvenile delinquents. Many aspects and perspectives on the occurrence of juvenile delinquency permeate this work, with a special accent on the importance of quality and consistent provision of post-penal protection to juveniles with delinquent behavior.
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Research in recent years in Europe and internationally has highlighted the growing need to review paternal role and the growing importance of fathers' continued involvement in the upbringing of their children through new parental care arrangements, such as the joint custody, so that the well-being of both the fathers themselves and their children is ensured. The purpose of this research is to investigate the joint custody and paternal role in divorce in Greece. During the research process, which started in January 2015 and is still ongoing to date, data were collected from 2,638 people, through a semi-structured questionnaire. According to the results of the research, it is a common request of both women and men to maintain the father’s quality participation in the lives of children after divorce.
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This paper focus on the most important discussions presented today concerning the construction of the research object in sociology of crime, which puts it in the duality of dimension and generates a double interpretation of the concept of crime and social reaction. At the stage of building the object within the institutional space which imposes restrictions on produce knowledge, interpretation oscillates between process and structural approaches, which are reflected at the cognitive level between two competing interpretive action/reaction paradigms. The attempts to synthesize them are one of the significant problems that affect the possibility of forming a general theory of crime. A new current known as “Zemiology”, trying to link the relationship between crime and social harm, and is the only current that can collect the disparity of this field of knowledge and overcome the problem of the general theory of crime, by reviewing the concept that is the object of science itself, bypassing the duality of action and construction.
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In the century of technological evolution and artificial intelligence, of advanced social and medical statistics calculations, of high-performance medical research, a virus paradoxically caused and inexplicable and incontrollable pandemic. Its effects are measured on a short and medium term only in human losses, but the psycho-social and economic impact is on the long term. An entire world of direct reality relocated itself within the virtual, as a consequence of the local and world governmental measures that quarantined the population, in order to protect it from COVID-19. Which were the changes in the dynamics of social life that were triggered by these decisions regarding isolation and physical distancing? For some of us, political decisions stimulated the build-up of resilience and adapting mechanisms for the new context, for others it increased the feeling of alienation and started an alteration of the mental health status. But what about those that already had it installed? To them and to those which were diagnosed with mental illnesses during the Coronavirus pandemic we dedicate our communication, focused on the analysis of local and national interventions meant to offer direct support services by means of the social projects. Our article aims at studying the reactions of the authorities in the social and health field, during the emergency and alert state, concerning the needs of the persons registered with mental health conditions and also the interventions of the social society, coagulated in order to provide support for this vulnerable category. The analysis of qualitative information will aim to compare local examples to international ones and to create successful methodological patterns, with the purpose of reapplying or extending those functional projects, particularly at local and regional level.
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People, from birth to old age, need each other to have a healthy lifestyle, to develop and to reach their full potential. This developmental process materializes following the influence of an important factor: socialization. Adolescence is a period of transition from the infantile, immature, and disorganized person to the one with an organized and complex thinking, when the young person forms his own identity, independent of the family, with a significant role in the development of the adult. This period is the most difficult, enhanced by both internal and external conflicts, emotional instability and increased lability of emotions, frequently moving from one state to another.
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The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of emotional intelligence and intercultural competence on the effectiveness of volunteer work with respect to the age and length of volunteering. 174 volunteers who have volunteered or are volunteering under the Erasmus + European Voluntary Service participated in the survey. The results of the study are presented as answers to the following problematic questions: Does higher emotional intelligence and higher intercultural competence increase the effectiveness of volunteer work? Does intercultural competence increase due to higher emotional intelligence? Do older volunteers have higher intercultural competence and higher emotional intelligence? Do volunteers with greater volunteering experience have higher intercultural competence and emotional intelligence? Do people with longer volunteering experience at the European Voluntary Service (EVS) have a higher level of intercultural competence and emotional intelligence? Based on the results of the study, factors that have a significant impact on the productivity of internationally active volunteers were identified.
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