Children and adolescents with behavioural and
emotional disorders are very inconsistently placed in
juvenile educational institutions. For some, it is the case
of stable and consistent long-term difficulties, for others,
one incident of escalation of deviant beaviour is enough
to make placement in a juvenile educational institution
an option. The article deals with the underlying causes
behind behavioural and emotional disorders in children
and adolescents on the premise that they have decisive
influence on the child or adolescent’s placement into
extra-familial care – a juvenile educational institution,
a youth home or a residential group. The results have shown that possible causes of
behavioural and emotional difficulties, as seen by social
worker. These can stem from social, psychological and
biological factors, which has also been established
by comparable etiological classifications. The author
emphasize that making a detailed analysis of the
child with the help of the presented indicators can
fundamentally contribute to making carefully considered
decisions.
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