The diploma thesis deals with the completion of foster care and the transition of a child from the foster family to the parent family, and the processes and procedures within this period. It also presents social work procedures in family support processes. At the beginning of the theoretical introduction, social work with the family is presented, which then focuses on social work with the foster family. The legal basis of foster care and numerous definitions of this phenomenon are also presented. This is followed by topics related to the completion of foster care, which relate to the child's role in the transition from a foster family to the mother and his needs. The empirical part presents a qualitative and exploratory research in which I conducted interviews with several participants in the foster care system. The measurement instrument I used in the research is semi-structured interview guidelines. The population is represented by all completed foster care, which included a foster and parental family, a child and a professional worker in the Republic of Slovenia between 2017 and 2022. The sample is non-random and occasional, and consisted of two foster and two parental families, two professionals and one child. The empirical part also presents the results with which I answered the following questions: what challenges do children face when moving from the foster family to the parental family, how to mitigate the transition of the child to the parental family, what needs of the child should the professional pay attention to in completion of foster care, how the foster and parental families cooperate when the child returns to the parental family, how the parental family must adapt to the child's return and what it needs and what tasks and powers the professional has in the process of concluding the foster care. The obtained answers are presented in the results and are summarized in the conclusions. Based on these findings, some suggestions for future research are also made.
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