Social-pedagogical work with a dysfunctional family in the Ukrainian context
Date
2017-02-20
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Lviv Politechnic Publishing House
Abstract
The modern Ukrainian society is experiencing a period of socio-political transformations, economic crisis and is
searching for new strategies of its social development. Under these conditions, the notion of family undergoes
considerable changes, which have a negative effect on its everyday activity. According to the socio-pedagogical
approach, families can be thus classified: well-to-do, seemingly problem-free, at-risk family and family in crisis. Social
threats (migration, terrorism, organized crime, environmental crisis etc.) have negative influence on family’s creation
and development. Urgent problems of the Ukrainian family are: orphanage, migrants and refugees, loss of the contact
with family members due to forced migration, social orphanhood, decrease in educational and socializing potential,
poverty. These problems increase the number of problem families and disadapted children and youngsters.
Disadaptation is the consequence of disorders in the process of social adaptation, during which the individual acquires
necessary skills and patterns of behavior and changes the environmental conditions, according to his needs and
abilities. To overcome the problems mentioned family needs professional help. In order to devise methods of sociopedagogical
work with families in crisis, its stages, methods, models and principles were described in this article. The
works of S. Jones, R. Joss, F. Loewenberg, R. Dolgoff were used to define the models of socio-pedagogical support of
disadapted children (paternalistic, contact, instrumental, personalistic). A set of methods was used in this research –
selection, analysis, professional literature systematization and generalization, comparative method for analysis of
research data, method of theoretical generalization etc. To sum up, it can be stated that in Ukraine the problem
mentioned still lacks for precise methodological research and scientific techniques of cooperation with problem
families. This encourages the creation of a complete system based on international experience and modern
technologies, which allows preparing specialists in social-pedagogy.
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social-pedagogical work, well-to-do family, seemingly problem-free family, at-risk family, family in crisis, Ukraine
Citation
Shved M. Social-pedagogical work with a dysfunctional family in the Ukrainian context / Maria Shved, Myroslava Duzha-Zadorozhna, Marta Pukaliak // Ukrainian Journal of Educational Research. — Lviv : Lviv Politechnic Publishing House, 2017. — Vol 2. — No 1. — P. 37–42.