Projects & Grants
| Social Work with Trauma in Youth Juvenile Detention Centers | |
|---|---|
| Project Id | SGS09/FSS/2023 |
| Main solver | Mgr. Marie Pinďáková, DiS. |
| Period | 1/2023 - 12/2023 |
| Provider | Specifický VŠ výzkum |
| State | solved |
| Anotation | The latest foreign research points to a disproportionately high number of juveniles placed in the facilities of juvenile care having experience with a traumatic experience. This is one of the most endangered populations (Jäggi et al., 2021, Zelchoski et al., 2020; Abram et al., 2013). The prevalence of adverse childhood experiences has led abroad to investigate the impact of childhood trauma. International research reports that 85 to 93% of juveniles in the welfare system have experienced trauma and up to 90% of juveniles have experienced at least one traumatic situation (Bargeman, Smith & Wekerle, 2021; Lang et al., 2016; Branson et.al , 2017). Research focused on social work with trauma is still absent in the Czech Republic. The presented research should fill this gap. Social work interventions focused on working with trauma in juvenile detention cares for adolescents take place rather haphazardly, when a person comes to the facility with several problems and social workers focus more on solving disciplinary cases than on solving adverse experiences from the past. The aim of the presented project is to map the situation in the Czech Republic, namely (1) using the standardized ACE questionnaire to determine the traumatic experience of juveniles living in juvenile detention care and (2) to determine and describe how social workers in juvenile detention care work with traumas in adolescents (social work clients).This reform has so far tended to re-institutionalise young adults rather than abolish residential institutions, and has also not taken into account the level of traumatisation depending on the environment. |
