Autoaggressive behaviours in educational care centres

A temporary separation from a biological parent which a child experiences is always, even though it might be for child’s sake, a stressful situation. Taking into account some other problems that might occur, it all might lead to aggressive and autoaggressive behaviours. The researches done for the purpose of this publication were conducted in three educational care centres located within bialski district. Twenty-five charges and ten educators participated in the researches. The studies enabled the three following: gathering information concerning autoaggressive behaviours, learning ways how educators cope with these behaviours, learning educators’ opinions on the factors that affect these behaviours. Furthermore, studies gave a chance to compare and contrast subjective feelings and impressions of both charges and educators. Additionally, within a case study, gathered information was complemented with the individual talks with selected educators in the educational care centres.