| Abstract [eng] |
Violence against children in the family is a worldwide problem. It exists in all countries, cultures, levels of society regardless of people’s education and incomes. Violence against children includes physical and psychological abuse, sexual abuse and child neglect. Social services system is being developed in Lithuania more actively, but it is not sufficiently focused on effective aid to the child and the full protection of his/her rights. It is very important to create a safe environment for children who had experience family violence. Children Day Centres (CDC) is one of the ways to help a child. The subject of the research – the activity of the Day Centre oriented towards children experiencing family violence. The aim of the research: to investigate the peculiarities of the activity of the Day Centre which help to solve the problems of the children experiencing family violence. The research methods: scientific literature analysis, questionnaire survey (in written form), quantitative and qualitative analyses of the obtained data. The volume of the research: 36 employees of the Day Centre and volunteers were interviewed. The volume of the children attending CDC is 231 participants. Total volume of the research is 267 respondents. The grounding of the research methodology: Hierarchy of needs (Maslow, 2006; Rogers, 2005); Humanistic theory (Maslow, 2006); the provisions of Philosophy of Education and Hodegetics on the child's upbringing and social transition to being. The main conclusions of empirical research: the research has revealed that Children Day Centres execute prevention of violence; they try to provide help for the children experiencing family violence as much as possible. However there is a lack of deeper view towards the needs of the children. The visitors of the Day Centres state that more honest communication and open discussions are needed. The CDC employees are more focused on other ways of activities. The priority is given to the encouragement of imitativeness and engaging in different activities. Psychological counselling services are relevant to all respondents, they perceive the need and benefit of the counselling, and however the main problem is the lack of money, which limits the possibility of establishing a post for a psychologist. The research has revealed that the activity oriented towards the help of children experiencing family violence would be more effective if the communication of CDC employees with the families of the visitors improved. |
