Psychological and social Dimensions of caring for injured Children in professional Families

The main objective of this theoretical-empirical study that analyzes two types of care for problematic children in professional families is to point out and identify the specific requirements and issues of caring for children who, for various subjective or objective reasons, experience problematic life situations. Methods. In the present research, the authors investigated the satisfaction of professional parents in providing care for children with ordered institutional care by use of qualitative techniques. The main identifiers and categories in determining satisfaction were the performance of their profession, dissatisfaction of professional parents in cooperation with the professional team in the center for children and families, identifying the most common causes of dissatisfaction of professional parents in caring for minor children and finding a correlation between the perception of their profession as a positive contribution to the further development of the child. Eight participants, women who are employed in the center for children and families, participated in the research. In the final part, we verify the established hypotheses that identify the issues of professional families. Conclusions and discussion. The main contribution of the final part is the awareness of the sensitivity of the topic identified by the created interview with the participants. When confirming the four established hypotheses, we can say that three of them were confirmed, while the hypothesis that stated the dissatisfaction of professional parents in cooperation with other professional teams was not confirmed. Conclusion. The study points to the sufficient satisfaction of professional parents in the performance of their profession, identifies the most common causes of dissatisfaction of professional parents in caring for minor children and, last but not least, it is a pleasing fact that professional parents perceive their profession as a positive benefit for the child in terms of his further psychological development. Professional parents have especially good cooperation with other experts who are interested in the well-being of the child in the professional family, and so we can say that it is the professional family that becomes a refuge for the child, but also a springboard for his future life in society