Preventive social activities with teenages from incomplete families

• Main Author: Ruslan Chubuk
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University 2018-01-01
• Series: Osvìtnìj Prostìr Ukraïni
• Online Access: http://journals.pu.if.ua/index.php/esu/article/view/2330

<p><em>This article foregrounds the importance of social prevention activities with adolescents from single-parent families, which aim at overcoming external social pressures and psychological discomfort as well as creating a system of mutual support and self-help for adolescents. The aim of this article is to highlight the forms and methods of work that constitute the set of traditional methods of professional influence on adolescents from single-parent families and their parents. The author proposes a work process cycle of social prevention activities (which defines the selection of apparatus, content, forms and methods of work) to  186 carry out in a logical sequence of certain stages that are characteristic of work with any singleparent family. First (pre-preparatory) stage consisted of a primary formulation of goal guidelines for social preventive specialists with the aim of determination of the search criterion for the conditions and social environment of single-parent families, acquaintance with the problems of the family and the adolescent. Second (organization and information) stage consisted of gathering of information, its organization and analysis. In the third (determination and diagnosis) stage, the methods of detailed investigation of both adolescent and family members’ problems were chosen. In the fourth (procedure and analytics) stage, the methods of detailed research of single-family problems, determined by the programme, were implemented. In the fifth (correction and results) stage stipulated for the socio-educational (correctional) work (if necessary) with members of single-parent families to create new or to restore damaged positive relationships of the adolescent with their family and enhance social responsibility of all family members for the future of the adolescent, etc. In the sixth (control and prevention) stage social workers make monitor visits to the single-parent families during a certain period.</em></p><p><em> <strong>Key words: </strong>stage, incomplete parental family, teenagers, social and preventive activities, professional influence.</em></p>