I was introduced to working with adolescents through my yearly compulsory internship at the Faculty of Social Work. Working with young people has always been a challenge for me, but at the same time I have found it rewarding to work with them and to gain new experiences and skills. I have always been interested in the position of young people and how they themselves view a particular thing, institution and the relationships they are in in their everyday lives. In my thesis, I will first briefly describe correctional institutions, the characteristics of adolescents who are placed in correctional institutions, how the placement of adolescents in institutions is carried out and what it entails. I am particularly interested in the feelings that overwhelm young people when they are admitted to an correctional establishment and how they themselves cope with this. I look at the stressful situations in which adolescents find themselves and all the strategies for coping with stressful situations. I am also interested in the relationship between the adolescents and the practitioners, what they offer them, what support the practitioners give them and the methods they use in their work. Since a very important aspect of adolescents' lives is the process of education, I also focus on this and investigate how the process of education is carried out for adolescents who are placed in an correctional institution. I am interested in the proportion of support that young people receive both in and out of the correctional institution, what they face, what obstacles they face in the process and what they would like to see changed.
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