Spivak V., Levytskyi V. - Peculiarities of the work of special secondary education institutions with students' families

Contact: Spivak Vitaly – PhD, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Social Pedagogy and Social Work, Ivan Ohienko Kamianets-Podilskyi University, Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine). In the circle of scientific interests: problems of self-regulation of the personality of future specialists in the socionomic direction; peculiarities of formation of personal and professional qualities of higher education students; sociopsychological rehabilitation of different categories of the population.

Levitsky Vadim – candidate of pedagogical sciences, associate professor department of speech therapy and special techniques of the faculty of special education in psychology and social work of KamianetsPodilskyi Ivan Ohienko National University, 32300, Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine). Among his scientific interests: are the issues of education and  upbringing of children with special educational needs.

The article highlights the results of a theoretical-experimental study of the work of teachers and administrators of special secondary education institutions with families of children with special educational needs of primary school age.  Disadvantaged are families that have completely or partially lost their educational opportunities due to one or another reason, as a result of which they objectively or subjectively have unfavorable conditions for raising a child.
Interaction with a dysfunctional family, the ability to find points of contact with it, requires the educator to have a deep knowledge of the
peculiarities of the functioning of the modern family, methods of studying it and organizing work with parents, choosing effective forms and methods of working with various types of dysfunctional families. In this regard, it is important to find out the causes of family dysfunction and potential mistakes in raising children in such families.
Educators experience significant difficulties in working with dysfunctional families. The insufficient number of scientific and methodological recommendations regarding the activities of educators of special institutions leads to spontaneity in working with disadvantaged families, inconsistency of pedagogical influences, which generally reduces the effectiveness of educational work. Such methods of working with families, such as discussion of pedagogical situations, role-playing and business games, trainings, familiarization with psychological and pedagogical literature, etc., are neglected.
The work carried out makes it possible to determine the characteristic signs of family dysfunction: negative emotional and psychological family microclimate; parents' indifference, their insensitivity to the child's age and individual psychological characteristics in the process of family upbringing; parents' lack of control over the child's success and behavior, parents' harmful antisocial lifestyle.

Key words: family, children with disorders of psychophysical development, educators, parents, school administration, upbringing, development.