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    Assessment of the Relationship between Childcare Institutions and Adolescents‟ Self-esteem: the case of Kechene and Kolfe Childcare Institutions
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-05) Sebri, Kainan; Assefa, Abebe (PhD)
    To conclude childcare institution is an institution which organized either by the government or non-government organization with the aim to provide care for the children who lost their parents or guardians. There are different causes for being institutionalized, these include family breakdown, poverty, HIV/AIDS etc. further childcare institution has adverse effects on the children physical, emotional and psychological wellbeing. Especially children who lived in the childcare institution for a long period are victim of those problems. Even though the classification of adolescents varies for different Authors, the study participants for this research are in between the age of 12-20. Literatures explained that one of the problems of childcare institutions is decreasing the level of self-esteem, that means the consequences of different problems leads for a child to lose his/he self-esteem. Self-esteem is the way how people give value for themselves. Those different literatures and researches on the self-esteem of children who are institutionalized revealed that, comparing to children who are benefitted from other alternative childcare programs these children has low-self-esteem. Moreover researches states that the major causes of low self-esteem, especially for adolescents are family breakdown, poor relationship with family or guardians, being abused or corporal punishment are included. So the study focuses to assess the relationship between adolescents‟ self-esteem and childcare institution