FORMATION OF THE LIVING CONDITIONS OF CHILDREN REMAINING WITHOUT PARENTAL GUARDIANSHIP, AT THE EARLY STAGE OF THEIR ADAPTATION IN THE FOSTER FAMILY
The purpose of the article is to develop criteria for the formation of living conditions for children left without parental care at an early stage of their adaptation to the proposed family community. The conditions created for children without parental care can today be understood ambiguously and their essence is to place the child in a family with an established life, traditions, rules and culture of interaction. Undoubtedly, the foster family is also a guarantee of the upbringing, education of the child and the formation of a full-fledged personality. But at the early stage of adaptation of each child to the proposed and new living conditions for him, it is necessary to develop an individual solution to this process and synchronize the interaction of all participants in order to prolong the constant and positive consensus of the family community. The scientific novelty of the study is the use of focus groups in the study of the formation of conditions for the primary adaptation of a child in a foster family, with further integration of the results into the practice of pedagogical, psychological and social work. Focus groups and a collegial discussion of the results made it possible to identify the fundamental signs of the formation of primary conditions of adaptation in a foster family of children without parental care, which was carried out on the basis of the Don State Technical University of the Department of Social Work (Rostov-on-Don).