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Title:	Fostered female orphans returned to orphanages: social – psychological adjustment problems and the roles of social workers
Authors:	Elhaddad Ahlam Ahmed (P48522)
Supervisor:	Professor Dr Rahimah Bt. Abdul Aziz
Keywords:	Foster families Orphan children Fostered female orphans Socio-psychological adjustment problems New social relationships Orphans-psychological aspects
Issue Date:	6-Feb-2013
Description:	Foster families are very important to orphan children to provide for their emotional and physical needs and to compensate them for the care that are missing due to the absence of their biological parents. However, some fostered children are returned to orphanages and as a result they suffer from social and psychological adjustment problems that need to be solved with the help of social workers. This study is about fostered female orphans that were returned to orphanages, and the sociopsychological adjustment problems they faced and the roles of social workers in assisting them to overcome their problems. Using both the qualitative and quantitative methods, this study was conducted among returned fostered female orphans to orphanages in Tripoli and Benghazi cities, Libya. Purposive sampling technique was used to sample 53 fostered female orphans between the ages of 12 to 20 years old who were returned to the orphanages. The study found that the returned fostered children face problems adjusting to the environment and system of the orphanages. They faced difficulties forming new relationships with other orphans and the social workers. The children are also found to suffer from psychological adjustment problems. Their feeling of attachment to the foster families had led them to feel a sense of loss and to miss the family relationships. The study also found that the social workers play important roles to help returned children adjust to their new situations, new environment, and to assist them to form new social relationships with other orphans in the orphanages. From the findings it can be concluded that the returned fostered children face both social and psychological adjustment problems related to their new situations and environment that require interventions by the social workers to help them accept and adjust to their new social status as well the new environment.,Keluarga angkat adalah amat penting untuk memberi penjagaan kepada anak-anak yatim bertujuan memenuhi keperluan emosi dan fizikal mereka selain untuk memberi penjagaan yang mereka tidak peroleh disebabkan telah kehilangan ibu bapa asal. Walau bagaimanapun, terdapat anak-anak angkat yang telah dipulangkan semula ke rumah anak-anak yatim setelah tinggal bersama keluarga angkat untuk satu tempoh tertentu. Akibatnya, terdapat di antara anak-anak yatim tersebut yang telah mengalami masalah penyesuaian dari segi sosial dan psikologi, yang memerlukan bantuan pekerja sosial untuk menyelesaikannya. Kajian ini adalah mengenai anak-anak angkat perempuan yang telah dipulangkan semula ke rumah anak-anak yatim dan masalah penyesuaian sosio-psikologi yang mereka alami dan peranan pekerja sosial dalam membantu mereka mengatasi masalah mereka itu. Dengan menggunakan kaedah kualitatif dan kuantitatif kajian ini telah dijalankan dalam kalangan anak-anak angkat perempuan yang telah dipulangkan ke rumah anak-anak yatim di bandar raya Tripoli dan Benghazi, Libya. Teknik pensampelan bertujuan digunakan untuk memilih 53 orang anak-anak yatim perempuan yang berumur di antara 12 hingga 20 tahun. Kajian mendapati bahawa kanak-kanak tersebut menghadapi masalah menyesuaikan diri mereka kepada sekitaran dan sistem rumah anak-anak yatim. Mereka menghadapi kesukaran membentuk hubungan baru dengan anak-anak yatim lain dan juga kepada pekerja sosial. Kanakkanak tersebut juga menghadapi masalah penyesuaian psikologi. Perasaan mesra dan sayang (attachment) kepada keluarga angkat menyebabkan mereka merasa kehilangan dan merindukan hubungan keluarga. Kajian juga mendapati bahawa pekerja sosial memainkan peranan penting dalam membantu anak-anak yatim yang dipulangkan itu menyesuaikan diri mereka kepada situasi dan persekitaran baru selain membantu mereka membentuk hubungan sosial baru dengan anak-anak yatim yang lain. Berdasarkan dapatan kajian boleh disimpulkan bahawa anak-anak yatim yang dipulangkan menghadapi masalah penyesuaian sosial dan psikologi yang berkaitan dengan situasi dan persekitaran baru. Hal ini memerlukan intervensi pekerja sosial bagi membolehkan anak-anak tersebut menerima dan menyesuaikan diri mereka kepada status baru mereka dan juga persekitaran baru
Pages:	163
Call Number:	HV965.E437 2014
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan

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