Prevention of risk behavior in adolescents in children's homes

The main topic of this Bachelor's thesis is the high-risk behaviour of children and youth within the institutional education. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part introduces the basic characteristics of the high-risk behaviour as well as the socially pathological phenomena of the early adolescence. It introduces both ground information about preventing such behaviour and preventive activities used by institutes in this area. It further describes families and children upbringing in relation with the genesis of the socially pathological phenomena and gives basic information about institutional education. All information given is based on vocational sources. In the practical part important questions connected with the research are established, resulting in a description of specific cases of such behaviour in the children's home in Horní Planá, as well as in an analysis of preventive measures taken in this institution and the reflection of behaviour and its prevention of the children's home. Furthermore, an attention is given to the methodology - to the characteristics of the specific children's home, establishing of the research group, methods of data collecting, ethical limits of the research, the way of data processing, and the final evaluation of the results. All will be based on the main hypotheses of the thesis