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The aim of the study was to learn about the dysfunctional factors inherent to a family environment which can contribute to a child’s development, with a particular emphasis on the risk of future formation of psychosocial disorders among the individuals in adult life. The first part of the study includes the profile of a family, its functions and role in a child’s upbringing. It also presents a description...
The article concerns the role of active citizenship in the process of poverty eradication. In democratic states civic activity plays an important role in the social development and modernization, because it enables effective prevention of social problems. Models of civic activity can be regarded as models of prevention against poverty.
Results of many studies show that caring for a child with Down syndrome can be a source of burden. Parents of these children face many financial, medical, social and psychological challenges. The main objective of this study was to answer two questions: (a) whether perceived social support mediates the relationship between perceived stress and psychological well-being among parents of children with...
People with mental disabilities are a great group of members of our society. This article presents a development of approach to people touched with mental disablities over the years. The opportunities for their needs to be met by society were presented and discussed. The ways of their social inclusion and social and professional activation were presented as well.
The objective of this paper was to address the notion of family stigma related to mental illnesses and discuss relevant theoretical perspectives. The review of the literature performed in this study shows that concepts of “family stigma” and “stigma by association” are used interchangeably. Family stigma includes the prejudice and discrimination experienced by members of family of a person suffering...
The subject of the discussion in this article is the ability of social functioning of people diagnosed with autism. Autism is a kind of pervasive developmental disorders that causes difficulty in building relationships with others. It has negative effect on functioning in a society. More and more actions are taken to enable autistic people function in a society and improve their life’s quality. It...
The article presents the results of the researches, conducted in 2005-2015 , which have given the opportunity to answer to the questions about teachers‚ attitudes to the most important, nowadays social problems. During the research we have been looking for the answer to the questions about teachers’ knowledge about the issue of poverty; categories of perception of the poverty; consequences of the...
You can have a family and feel lonely. Most of us associate home with the family, a safe place, full of warmth and love. Unfortunately, as it turns out, it is not always so. Changes occurring in the world today are linked to the transformation of the family. Parents focus on paid work, career, consumerism, pushing offspring to the second place . Children left to themselves, deprived of affection,...
The article presents a growing interest in bond theories. It explains the connection between functioning in social relations and emotional style (results from child experience) which people need to build the relationships. It describes contemporary bond theories and metallization.
Population ageing is one of the most important problems of the 21st century economy. Similarly, the subject of creating a living space for the elderly, taking into consideration their specific needs resulting from functional disability in the context of the ever growing population of elderly people is one of the key challenges that modern architecture has to face. The aim of the article is to present...
Analysis of the literature leads to the conclusion that, despite the significant and progressing gradually in the public consciousness changes concerning development opportunities, lead it through may mature and thus different forms of adaptation to old age, in which one of the most important roles played by other persons is noticeable still the trend of denial of old age as a period of development...
Background: The main aim of the presented study is to identify the relationship between loneliness and life satisfaction of seniors. It was expected that high score of loneliness will correspond to lower score of satisfaction with life. Methods: The group consisted of 161 people (53 male and 108 female, age range 60-105 years old) took part in this study. The data was collected using following tools:...
The issue of the article is concerned with two main issues: loneliness and cohousing relating to the contemporary challenges of an aging society. The authors of the article put the thesis that cohousing understood as a way for the investment, which is the creation of a group of residential units (apartments, houses) of interrelated strict principles, which helps to continuously strengthen the neighborly...
Nowadays, death has become a taboo. People usually die in sterile conditions of hospitals or hospices. Death is commonly not accepted, it is treated as a phenomenon so improper that it had better not even be discussed. People who lose their closest ones can rely on support from people around them less and less, due to loosening of social bonds and the individual anonymity in big cities. As a result,...
One of the forms of public tasks is to create organizational entities by units local government. Social help is a special task of the community and this is why the law maker has introduced an obligation for municipalities the local government units which are the closest to residents, to create an organizational unit in the form of municipal social welfare centre. This unit performs a significant part...
Motherhood is one of the most important experiences in woman’s life. It is connected not only with change in position within the social role, it is also a series of changes related to the psyche of women. Motherhood is a popular topic of many researchers, but most of them do not focus on motherhood and changes which are connected with it. The purpose of articles is to present the experience of motherhood...
There is little research in the field of bereavement that takes into consideration the financial component. Previous publications have indicated that bad financial situation may impede the process of mourning. This paper examines the research conducted by A.Moore in Togo on the influence of poverty on parents dealing with bereavement and puts is in a wider context of bereavement theory.
The main aim of this article is to review the theoretical concepts and selected studies relating to the stigmatization and exclusion of ill and disabled people, their sources, mechanisms and effects, with particular attention to the ethical dimension of this phenomenon. Psychological costs, understood as negative emotions, or some kind of psychological discomfort, are the result of differences between...
The authors have described some examples of good business practices of CSR entrepreneurs who belongs to the SME sector of the province of Silesia and performs support activities for groups at risk of social exclusion in 2011-2015. The article briefly describes the theoretical background of corporate social responsibility and presents descriptions of selected examples of aid projects.
Along with the aging of the Polish society the interest of various disciplines in the elderly people life quality is growing. Researchers have different perceptions about quality of life. They define the concept of quality of life both subjectively, as an evaluation standard of life, and objectively, as a sum of various forms of the capital that have seniors at their disposal. In this article the...
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