Larysa Pietushkova

The introduction of the foster care service in Ukraine is conditioned by the priorities defined in the legislation of raising a child in a safe family environment, the creation of support services for families with children in the community. For the effectiveness of the provision of foster care services, it is important to conduct an initial selection of candidates for foster carers, to study their motivation. The goal of this article is to study the features and justification of the role of motivation of candidates for foster carers in the process of creating a family of foster carers. Theoretical (analysis of the literature to determine the starting points of the study) and empirical methods (questionnaires, surveys, standardized interviews) were used to solve the tasks. On the basis of researches by scientists and practitioners the peculiarities of motivation of surrogate families and classification of motives are determined. A study of the motivation of candidates for foster carers and members of their families has been conducted, identified the most common fears of candidates that affect their motivation, identified levels of formation of professionally significant motives.