The aim of the study was to explore adolescents' perceptions of their parents' behaviors that inhibited or facilitated adolescents' self-disclosures to them. Four focus groups with 16 girls and 16 boys from Croatia (13-14 year-olds) were conducted. Results indicate that adolescents perceive their self-disclosures to be influenced by a variety of specific parental actions and reactions in disclosure-related situations. According to adolescents' views, not only can parents hinder adolescent's disclosure by unfavorable reactions, but they can also prompt adolescent to disclose by behaving in certain manner. Identified parental behaviors and emotional states (labeled as "inviters", "inhibitors", "negative reactions" and "positive reactions"), are discussed in terms of contemporary perspectives on optimal parenting based on children's psychological needs and children's rights.

The aim of the study was to test whether the correlation between parental behaviors in the context of adolescent disclosure and adolescents’ self-reported disclosure could be explained by fulfillment of adolescents’ basic psychological needs within their relationships with mothers and fathers. The cross-sectional data were collected from a representative sample of 1,074 seventh graders in Croatia. Parental facilitating behaviors (initiating conversation, support and respectful guidance) and some of the inhibiting behaviors (unavailability, punishment) were shown to be indirectly associated with adolescents’ disclosure through the perceptions of their needs satisfaction. The assumption about the unique contribution of the need-for-relatedness satisfaction in mediating the link between parental behaviors and disclosure was consistently supported, whereas the specific contribution of the need-for-autonomy was apparent only in data about mothers, but not fathers. The results are equivalent for routine disclosure and self-disclosure, suggesting that the processes through which parents facilitate or inhibit both are rather comparable.

The aim of this article is to compare Swedish and Croatian social workers’ assessments and protection of a 4‐year‐old child exposed to risk in its own family. The data were collected from 87 Croatian and 72 Swedish social workers by means of a questionnaire, which incorporated a vertical vignette. Effects of the participant's country of residence were investigated with respect to: (i) risk assessments; (ii) perception of the main problems; (iii) tolerance of corporal punishment; (iv) judgements about appropriateness of interventions. The results suggest that Croatian social workers have a more child‐protective approach than their Swedish colleagues. Swedish social workers have a more supportive approach than Croatian social workers. Despite fundamental similarities in assessments between the countries, significant differences were found in preferred interventions. The Swedish social workers were more in favour of keeping the child at home with the support of social services. The Croatian social workers were more in favour of removing the child from home by means of a care order. This might primarily be attributed to the differences in availability of family support services and to different discourses in Sweden and Croatia.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to deliver parenting and mental health support services to families. This narrative review illustrates the diverse ways in which ICT is being used across Europe to provide family support to different populations. We distinguish between the use of ICT in professional-led and peer-led support and provide implementation examples from across Europe. We discuss the potential advantages and disadvantages of different ways of using ICT in family support and the main developments and challenges for the field more generally, guiding decision-making as to how to use ICT in family support, as well as critical reflections and future research on its merit.

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Does social workers' personal experience with violence in the family relate to their professional responses, and how?Djeluje li privatno iskustvo s nasiljem u obitelji na stručne reakcije socijalnih radnica i kako?Ali osebna izkušnja z nasiljem v druž ini vpliva na strokovne reakcije socialnih delavk in kako?The study examines if and how social workers' personal experience with violence in the family relates to their professional responses to children's exposure to domestic violence and physical abuse. Four case vignettes depicting situations of physical child abuse and of children witnessing abuse of their mothers were responded to by 106 Slovene social workers. Their ratings of perceived risk to the child, responsibility for endangerment of the child and support for a range of interventions were correlated with their self-reported frequencies of receiving corporal punishment, witnessing father's violence against mother and experiencing violence from a husband/intimate partner in their private lives. While corporal punishment in social workers' childhoods

Cilj istraživanja bio je, na reprezentativnom uzorku, ispitati uvjerenja odraslih građana Hrvatske o poželjnom odnosu roditelja prema djeci mlađoj od 3 godine te provjeriti mogu li se ona predviđati na temelju niza sociodemografskih varijabli. Rezultati su pokazali da je, uz najzastupljenije uvjerenje o važnosti roditeljske uključenosti, visoko zastupljeno i uvjerenje o važnosti poslušnosti i podređenosti djeteta odraslima. Manje su zastupljena uvjerenja o opravdanosti neodgovaranja na djetetov plač, uvjerenje o opravdanosti tjelesnoga kažnjavanja te uvjerenje o nepotrebnosti davanja objašnjenja zahtjeva i zabrana djetetu (indukcije). Spomenuta uvjerenja mogu se predviđati na temelju sociodemografskih obilježja sudionika, kao što su, prije svega, stupanj obrazovanja, a zatim spol, dob i prihodi te broj članova kućanstva. Ovaj skup sociodemografskih prediktora najslabije predviđa uvjerenje o važnosti roditeljske uključenosti, a najbolje uvjerenje o nepotrebnosti indukcije. Kod slabije obrazovanih i starijih sudionika, s manjim prihodima, izraženija su uvjerenja o odnosu prema djetetu koja ne odgovaraju suvremenim znanstvenim spoznajama o primjerenoj roditeljskoj potpori ostvarenju djetetova razvojnog potencijala.Ključne riječi: uvjerenja o roditeljskim postupcima, roditeljstvo, sociodemografska obilježja, tjelesno kažnjavanje, rani razvoj djece Ninoslava Pećnik, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Studijski centar socijalnog rada,