Children and adolescents can find themselves in various hardships, peer violence, abuse in the home environment, experimentation with drugs, etc. Sometimes it is necessary to withdraw from their home environment and in such cases the child or adolescent may be placed in a crisis center for children and adolescents. The crisis center is intended to solve an acute crisis and the stay is tentatively limited to 21 days. After the stay, a solution or long-term accommodation should be sought for the child or young person. But the crisis center is not. The purpose of crisis intervention is to improve the user's functioning, but it differs from other forms of assistance mainly in terms of time frame, limited goals, speed and the actual activity of the persons involved. In my diploma thesis, I focused my research on an approach based on understanding trauma, raising children, the child's attachment and how it goes, different types of violence that can be perpetrated within the family circle, and support for the child as a victim of violence. After the introductory theory, I presented a qualitative research in which I investigated how much time-limited crisis intervention there is in crisis centers and how it is with the time of stay in crisis centers after the adoption of the Family Code in 2019. I also asked the interlocutors how the crisis center works, at which theoretical concepts are the basis of the work of professionals and the topics of the trainings they attend. My findings are that the stay of children and adolescents in crisis centers is getting longer, since the adoption of the Family Code in 2019. In one way or another, crisis centers try to adapt to long-term placements, although everyone is of the opinion that they are not set up or adapted for this, and it is difficult for them to work with children who stay with them for a long time.
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