THE NEED OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL SUPPORT OF THE FAMILIES UNDERGOING DIVORCE

The article is based on the results of qualitative research on the importance of professional social support for the family that experienced divorce. The research participants were as follows: preschool children of N city attending social care day centre and parents (6 couples), who after undergoing the divorce had the need for social support provided by professional caseworkers. The research uses qualitative research method applied to survey with four persons that had undergone the divorce recently. The research has revealed that the major demand of these parents with preteen children was the necessity of professional educational, psychological, medical, legal, mediatory support as well as consultancies. The informants had obtained support on institutional level, which was provided during divorce by personnel of Family Practice Institute and Initial Healthcare and Mental Health Centres as well as caseworkers of the municipalities. The research has demonstrated that a family undergoing divorce is lacking successive and complex help.


THE NEED OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL SUPPORT OF THE FAMILIES UNDERGOING DIVORCE
with a large number of divorces experience not only loss of parents, but also the erosion of its members permanently debate by feeling mutual anger.Divorce is accompanied by emotional of such system, but it also evokes long-term grievous experience.
Every other marriage comes to bits in Lithuania.All developed countries across the world have divorce as a relevant problem, however, in some countries it is more prevalent and USA.One divorced couple is for two couples getting married within the period of one year ( The problem of divorce (causes, consequences and help) is extensively analysed in In analysing the divorce problem in Lithuania the most important role in research was highlight the topic of divorce. is to reveal the need for professional social support felt by the families that underwent divorce.help undergo the divorce.
2. Empirical revelation of the demand for professional social support provided to families that underwent divorce.

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resources as well as accomplished investigations of divorce process, its causes, consequences, intervention models and mediator's role in caseworkers' performance.

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Analysis of and demand for qualitative research results.The research was performed lies undergoing divorce were selected for testing (four families were living divorced for one year, and two families were still in the process of divorce).These informants were examined by using semi-structured survey.The categories and sub-categories were distinguished by qualitative research analysis and they were interpreted by using particular examples.
must not affect their human dignity and increase responsibility based on collaboration of person, family and society.A profession related to social work not only stimulates social change and solutions of the problems of human interrelations, but also provides opportunities and of performance, contributor and adviser helps family to understand the course by enabling the family members to communicate with each other.
The divorce is a long-term process reorganising the whole family system, therefore, social work as performance is not a short-term action, but the process covering three main interact-Caseworker's roles during divorce crisis intervention (structured by authors accord- ily members experience anger, shock and disappointment, they are vulnerable, and for such with the aim to permit future constructive communication, helps to solve family's problems.family's relations with social surroundings, but also enables family to use proper service.Such of recourses starting from readiness of the family to accept the help up to contacting relevant service for providing assurance that family will receive the help and use it. nication during divorce crisis, the caseworker shall be governed by as (everything in the world is interrelated), (each person's behaviour is special), , taken into account), Surveyed mediation stages presuppose that number of mediation stages is not imporcomplete the mentioned tasks, the caseworker is governed by general , i.e.

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the interests of the parties, then the caseworker-mediator must organize the process in a way that disputing parties have time for speaking and have mutual discussions in order to be heard.The family undergoing divorce participates in mediation by passing certain 2.
Preliminary questions asked during mediation, In general it is possible to state that the role being played by caseworker as a mediator and conveyor of social support during family divorce crisis is especially important, because mediator is especially important for family members that undergo loss and have many differand relevant skills that could help to overcome crisis.
-Caseworker as a mediator can ease the process of the divorce families go through as well as ing social demands of the families that underwent the divorce.
In order to highlight the reasons and problems inherent to the families going through divorce, to analyse social support providers as well as problems rising while providing social support the research methodology was prepared and qualitative research was also performed.
the aim was to know the demand for providing social support to families undergoing divorce.
strives for understanding problems of families undergoing divorce as well as the submission with the aim to obtain understanding about the reasons and consequences of the divorce phenomenon as well as the possibilities to provide social support.already were separated (for a year), also with families in the process of divorce.A questionnaire had been prepared and submitted for the research which was intended for family, i.e. for husband and wife.This questionnaire was structured in accordance with general theoretic (the authors do not submit the questionnaire because of the limited scope of the article).
. The main criterion for the selection of participants of the research was families undergoing divorce (in the process of divorce and already being divorced for a year) that had under-age children.Particular social care daytime institution of N city, which was attended by under-age children, was selected for doing research.There was no trouble to survey families undergoing divorce in the process of communicating with parents of children as well as providing them social, educational and healthcare help.child care centre.
The method selected for structuring was purposive non-probability sampling, when, according to investigated groups of people in small volume research are formed by not fully following random sampling principle.Strict sampling volume requirements are not applied to qualitative aim to clear out deep reasons of the divorce as well as the needs for professional social support, is an important foundation and chance to receive valuable answers to the topical question of was performed by using content analysis.Content analysis is records ( into written one, and they were grouped according to typical features of selected data, i.e. they fairness as well as voluntary participation were followed in the course of the research and while members, any names of the respondents were not used, but they were encoded.
of relations before marriage of these informants as well as the duration of marriage, it was All families participating in the survey had one or two under-age children.Underage children growing up in one-parent families are a relevant problem, which creates many mother and father.
The obtained data give evidence that women mostly initiate the divorce, the men do not made up their mind to initiate the declaration of marriage as invalid).
. property is mostly obtained before marriage by one marriage party and after divorce it does not " The divorce evokes a lot of negative emotional trials, particularly to the marriage partner who is Such prompt decisions do not allow ensuring living together before their marriage, and this increased the probability of divorce.categories of the consequences, i.e. personal consequences, the consequences relating to the former marriage partner, consequences to children as well as consequences relating to other " The men had experienced shame against they understand loss of the family or feel anger, because "… The consequences relating to the former marriage partner (wife) were indicated mostly by men.They were saying that women after divorce had lost not only family, as single they Opinions provided by two men about the consequences of divorce, as felt by the former marriage partner, should be distinguished, because the husband-victim thinks that "… but the man, who initiated divorce, says that "… Informants were not ready to talk openly about the According to one man "… Divorce not only evokes negative personal trials and consequences relating children, but communicate, because it is clear that they would not be glad to see the former spouses together.One feels soreness that former relatives turn their backs "… …" "… Only one man had agreed with the opinion of women, telling that both should wish to preserve marriage has changed the viewpoint, particularly of men, because they told about negative attitude also for other informants marriage has caused negative Divorce is a crisis not only of the family, but also of each family member, so overcoming consequently, the help of the specialists is necessary.
…", "... ... ..." was not needed because they received help from friends, colleagues.One man said that the other part of aid was necessary for women and children, but not for men dominates.
It is important to get help on time during divorce process because it can prevent further problems.The authors of article divided the answers of .
lessness, fear, tension.In the primary stage the assistance is especially necessary.
According to the informants' answers, the most urgent assistance they received was or friend "...
During the primary stage of the divorce process, the help not only from family members, but The main form of help is moral support because most of the informants asked for help rienced condemnation ... ...".The answers of the informants suggest that in the primary stage of the process of divorce the close family members (mother, sister, girlfriend) were mostly addressed and the informants received the moral support.
During the divorce process, relatives' help usually was not enough, so people asked for professional help of social work, law and other specialists.
The analysis of the informants' answers showed that the informants during the divorce process mostly asked for social-psychological and legal assistance.The informants' answers to the question "Have you ever sought help from professional experts?" were distributed as ...", " -that a social worker played a mediator's role and addressed them to other specialists, 2 informants said that the social worker was a consultant .In the divorce process the roles of a social worker as a mediator and consultant are extremely important because a social worker helps to access services, providing people with information and a social worker as a consultant performs divorce crisis intervention, assistance in determining the need for an action plan in order to solve a problem.
In order to create safe and healthy environment for a family experiencing divorce there is a need to have institutional support where not only social workers-mediators, but also professionals and other specialists such as psychologists, lawyers and doctors could provide help.A person experiencing divorce should be able to choose whether to get support at public or at private institution.
Informants were asked whether they know where families experiencing various crises should look for help.The informants indicated state institutions such as the pedagogical-psychological service, assistance in a clinic where you can get a social worker's and a psychiatrist's assistance, assistance provided by social workers in the municipality, crisis centers, assistance of various institutions ...".Other informants spoke abstractly about private institutions, however, referring to their responses, it can be said that only a few informants mentioned private institutions providing services to the family ...", "... .Other informants do institutions .According to the informants' answers, or private), the informants named individual institutions that provide personal assistance, but not the assistance to the family during crisis.Therefore, not only complex-institutional family support and assistance but also the dissemination of help is necessary.
It is particularly important to receive social worker's help because social worker not only solves the arisen crisis, but also prevents larger problems from occurring in families going through divorce.The study revealed how many people who are going through divorce know about social workers' assistance.
to the family such as help in Child Protection Division, work with victims of violence, work -.Summing up the results

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. Due to the lack of information about the services provided by a social worker, about the generally do not seek help on their own initiative and do not contact social workers so such customers' expectations are not met.
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a search for help, or sought social support from a social worker and if after a meeting with a .Two informants sought help on their own initiative, the aim of the help was the solution and believed that social workers do a very .Ignorance of the social workers' professional support and their activities .Although informants generally did not ask help of the social worker, but the other results of the interviews show that there is demand for information about the services of social workers.The need arises from ignorance, because of the necessity of help, and the social worker should be trained professionally, enabling individuals, families and society to change and modify the expectations and opinions." "... ..., "... ...", other informants said that the society needs more information about the social worker, people would like to have a professional person, even one informant who had not about the services provided by a social worker and would agree to go to those institutions.information about the social worker's services.
Divorce is the time which involves and touches all family members emotionally and physically.Loss of a loved one during divorce is equivalent to physical human losses, so people experiencing divorce not always have enough personal effort and desire to return to a normal life.Person experiencing divorce usually feels emotionally unstable to be able to help themselves, so in this case, it is necessary to get the assistance of expert.
According to the data of interviews, it can be said that the need for social and other assistance were distributed as assistance, assistance for children and they wanted to recover emotionally . 2 men informants indicate that they mostly need personal aid and social-psychological support for their wives who are raising children " .

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Divorce is a tough time in each spouse's life, during which each spouse is experiencing to talk about their feelings, experiences, or apply psychological pressure to the other spouse.In most cases women tend to save family while men are reluctant to seek the same when man initiates divorce.They do not want a divorce and feel particularly offended if the ex-wife has chosen another man.
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During divorce crisis spouses were generally inclined to seek help from members of the close environment, only later, after the shock informants were looking for professional social assistance.The informants indicated that they mostly consulted with lawyers, psychologists, sometimes with a social worker.Specialists play mediator's and consultant's roles.However, during the divorce crisis people needed complex, institutional support.Informants had very abstract, questionable knowledge about places where to professional social worker's services if they were provided, but many informants did not know what a social worker does because of the lack of information.

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The study revealed that the divorce in the family is caused by problems such as changes in family background, family functioning conditions and individual personal divorce communication with children, relations with former spouses.
• According to the informants, a social worker carrying a lot of different roles with appropriate knowledge, values and skills should help families experiencing divorce to overcome divorce crisis (for example, the social worker performs the mediator's functions), but, as shown by the results, society is not informed about the importance of a • Qualitative research has highlighted experiences of the families during divorce and needs of professional social assistance.

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The investigation revealed that to overcome the divorce crisis professional help of specialists was necessary for women and children, while men are more reluctant to seek help.

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During the primary stage of the divorce families usually asked members of their close environment for help, only later they addressed professional specialists whose main functions are counselling and mediation.
• the absence of the system does not provide opportunity to use the services of a social worker.
• worker services, relied on abstract facts.This not only does not provide necessary preis available in family centers of Lithuanian cities), but also creates preconditions for the failures regarding understanding of social assistance.The study revealed the need for information about the social worker services for families during divorce crisis.

THE NEED OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL SUPPORT OF THE FAMILIES UNDERGOING DIVORCE
The article presents the results towards importance of professional social support for the family, which experienced divorce.Qualitative research was applied for revealing the need of professional social informants were examined by using semi-structural survey.Qualitative research analysis released the Summarizing the Results of research shows that divorce is a tough time in each spouse's to the other spouse.In most cases women tend to save family while men are reluctant to seek the same when man initiate divorce.They do not want a divorce and feel particularly offended if the ex-wife has consequences of divorce and were not likely to solve the problems, try to save the family.During divorce crisis spouses were generally inclined to seek help from members of the close environment, only later, after the shock informant were looking for professional social assistance.The informants indicated that they most consulted with lawyers, psychologists, sometimes with a social worker.Specialists play mediator and consultant roles.
However, during the divorce crisis people needed complex, institutional support.Informants had very abstract, questionable knowledge about places where to go for help, what kind of institutions provide what a social worker does, many informants did not know because of the lack of information.
It was revealed that that the divorce in the family is caused by problems such as changes in -According to the informants, a social worker carrying a lot of different roles with appropriate knowledge, values and skills should help families experiencing divorce to overcome divorce crisis (for example, the social worker performs the mediator's functions), but, as shown by the results, society is not her roles, functions working with the family experiencing divorce.Qualitative research has highlighted experiences of the families during divorce and needs of professional social assistance.The investigation revealed that to overcome the divorce crisis professional help of specialists was necessary for women and children, while men are more reluctant to seek help.During the primary stage of the divorce families usually asked members of their close environment for help, only later they addressed professional public and private institutions, and the absence of the system does not provide opportunity to use the the social worker services, relied on abstract facts.This not only does not provide necessary precondicenters of Lithuanian cities), but also creates preconditions for the failures regarding understanding of social assistance.The study revealed the need for information about the social worker services for families during divorce crisis.