-Burnout is frequently mentioned as a problem in the mental health field. As a type of prolonged response to chronic job-related stressors, has a special significance in health care where staff experience both psychological-emotional and physical stress. The aim of the paper was to determine the level of stress in professionals working in psychiatric hospital, as well as to explore possible differences in stress level regarding the different characteristic of participants as sex, level of education, marital status, working hours etc. The Burnout Clinical Subtypes Questionnaire was used. Study was conducted from July to December 2014, and from April to May 2015. The sample of 141 participants who work in mental health profession consists of 39.9% male and 68.1% female, average age of 38.98 years. Overall results show that participants have lower scores on all subscales. The results showed that there is moderate burnout experience in the sense that participants feel overload when they try to maximize their reward by taking on a volume and pace of work that become excessive. This questionnaire can be a very useful instrument for future evaluation and designing interventions and different treatment strategies for subtypes of burnout.

Paper is theoretically grounded in the model of social support. The aim of presented research is to gain insight in the perceived level of social support for people in hospital conditions due to the diagnostic criteria and forms of treatment. The proposed model is a multi-source support model. The sample of the study consists of 51 participants who were enrolled in some form of treatment in the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče, since the beginning of February to the end of April 2017. Multidimensional Scale of Social Support (MSPSS), was used. The highest score of perceived support is experienced by significant others (M= 5.72). Interestingly, weakest result of the perceived support by participants was obtained on the subscale of support experienced by the family (M = 5). Negative significant was found between perceived social support and age; support is negatively related to age. Older participants rated a lower level of support than the younger ones (-279*, Pearson’s correlation coefficient). There are no differences or significant correlations in the perception of social support, gender and form of treatment of participants.

Drug use is a phenomenon which seriously disturbs the health and the ability to function socially and in a balanced manner for a large number of young people in Croatia who are at the most sensitive stage of their individual development (Petrović, 1983; as cited in Bouillet, 2007). The perspective of developmental psychopathology helps to create all-encompassing theoretical models that explain the development of problems related to drug abuse, identify the groups that have the highest risk and guide the creation of logical models for prevention programs. This paper offers a hypothesized model of development of addiction problems in adolescence from the perspective of developmental psychopathology and uses it as a tool to analyse the current state of selective prevention practice in Croatia. The national focal point for drugs and drug addiction is located within the Office for Combating Drug Abuse of the Government of the Republic of Croatia. This Office also runs a Database of projects and programs administered in the field of drug demand reduction. According to the database review performed by the authors on June 26th 2016, 57 selective prevention programs were identified that fit the criteria for being “selective” (according to the definition by Mrazek & Haggerty, 1994). Among these, 15 selective prevention programs were identified as matching the criteria of “program” used by the US Department of Health and Human Services (US DHHS, 2013a & 2013b). The suggested theoretical model was subsequently compared to the goals and activities of these programs.

Cilj istraživanja koje je prikazano u ovom radu jest razviti mjerni instrument koji će omogućiti da se temeljem roditeljske procjene problema u ponašanju učenika identificiraju potrebe učenika za uključivanjem u socijalnopedagoške intervencije u osnovnoj školi. Radi se o Upitniku za procjenu potreba učenika za socijalnopedagoškim intervencijama - verzija za roditelje koji je konstruiran u sklopu projekta Razvoj modela socijalnopedagoških intervencija u osnovnoj školi Agencije za odgoj i obrazovanje. Istraživanje je provedeno na uzorku 2.865 roditelja učenika trećih, petih i sedmih razreda u 43 osnovne škole u Republici Hrvatskoj. U radu je prikazana procedura kreiranja konačne verzije upitnika koji ima zadovoljavajuće metrijske karakteristike (valjanost, objektivnost i pouzdanost). Faktorskom analizom je utvrđeno da upitnik mjeri: procjenu odnosa učenika prema obrazovanju, obavezama, vršnjacima, roditeljima, razredniku i materijalnoj dobiti, komunikativnost, mogućnost kontrole osjećaja i odgovornost u ponašanju učenika. Pokazalo se da Upitnik za procjenu potreba učenika za socijalnopedagoškim intervencijama - verzija za roditelje primjereno razlikuje učenike s problemima u ponašanju od ostalih učenika, pri čemu normiranje kategorija učenika ovisi o njihovom spolu i dobi. Također je ustanovljeno da prema procjenama roditelja u osnovnim školama 13% učenika ima probleme u ponašanju, što je podudarno procjenama dobivenima od strane samih učenika.