Long term foster-care and the temporary one - psychological aspects of the foster-parent view and child's view.

This thesis primarily deals with foster care. The readers are acquainted with the basic informations from the topic. Further on it deals with the issue of creating connections with foster parents. It points out differences and permanency of the realionship between the long term foster care and the temporary foster care. It outlines the specifics of psychological aspects in both forms of foster care on the side of the child and the foster parent himself. In the second part the qualitative proposal of research is submitted which is focused on children's experience with the foster care. It is trying to point out subjective view of children in their positive and negative form, due to the foster care, emotional anchoring in foster family and last but not least the children's view of transitions between families and problems connected to it. One of the outcomes of this research is to create hypotheses which will be used as a support for next research projects. Keywords Foster care, professional foster care, long-term foster care, temporary foster care, child, foster family, attachment