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Residential Care of Children

Author : Mark E. Courtney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195309189
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Residential Care of Children written by Mark E. Courtney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residential Care of Children fills major gaps in knowledge about residential care of children, and is sure to inform ongoing debates within and between nations about the appropriate use of such institutions. Each "case study" chapter provides a rich description of the development, current status, and future of residential care in countries from Brazil to Botswana. Chapters describe how residential care is defined in the country in question, how it has evolved over time, including its history, trends over time, and any "landmark" events in the history of residential care. Authors examine factors (historical, political, economic, ideological, and cultural) that have contributed to the observed pattern of development of residential care and provide a description of the current state of residential care (number of children in care, ages, average length of stay, reasons that children/youth are placed in residential care, etc.). Lastly, each case study describes expected future directions for residential care and potential concerns. Two integrative chapters provide a critical cross-national perspective, identifying common themes, analyzing underlying factors, and speculating about the future of residential child care across the globe. This insight-filled book will be required reading for all child welfare scholars, particularly as international perspectives become increasingly emphasized.

Rethinking residential child care

Author : Smith, Mark
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847421156
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking residential child care written by Smith, Mark and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residential child care is a crucial, though relatively neglected area of social work. And yet, revelations of abuse and questions of effectiveness have led to increasingly regulatory and procedural approaches to practice and heightened political and professional scrutiny. This book provides a broad and critical look at the ideas and policy developments that have shaped the direction of the sector. The book sets present-day policy and practice within historical, policy and organisational context. The author applies a critical gaze to attempts to improve practice through regulation and, fundamentally, challenges how residential child care is conceptualised. He argues that it needs to move beyond dominant discourses of protection, rights and outcomes to embrace those of care and upbringing. The importance of the personal relationship in helping children to grow and develop is highlighted. Other traditions of practice such as the European concept of social pedagogy are also explored to more accurately reflect the task of residential child care. The book will be of interest to practitioners in residential child care, social workers and students on social work and social care courses. It should be required reading for social work managers and will also be of interest to policy makers and students of social policy, education and childhood studies.

Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth

Author : James K Whittaker
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857008331
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth by : James K Whittaker

Download or read book Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth written by James K Whittaker and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support. Featuring contributions from distinguished international contributors, it critically examines current research and innovative practice and addresses the key questions: how does it work, what are its critical “active ingredients” and does it represent value for money? The book covers a broad spectrum of established and emerging approaches pioneered around with world, with contributors from the USA, Canada, Scandinavia, Spain, Australia, Israel and the UK offering a mix of practice and research exemplars. The book also looks at the research relating to critical issues for child welfare service providers: the best time to refer children to residential care, how children can be helped to make the transition into care, the characteristics of children entering and exiting care, strategies for engaging families as partners, how the substantial cost of providing intensive is best measured against outcomes, and what research and development challenges will allow therapeutic residential care to be rigorously compared with its evidence-based community-centered alternatives. Importantly, the volume also outlines how to set up and implement intensive child welfare services, considering how transferable they are, how to measure success and value for money, and the training protocols and staffing needed to ensure that a programme is effective. This comprehensive volume will enable child welfare professionals, researchers and policymakers to develop a refined understanding of the potential of therapeutic residential care, and to identify the highest and best uses of this intensive and specialized intervention.

Residential Child Care in Practice

Author : Smith, Mark
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447309731
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Residential Child Care in Practice written by Smith, Mark and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by experienced practitioners and academics, this is a core text about the practice of residential child care. It takes as its starting point the fact that residential child care involves workers and children sharing a common lifespace, in which the quality of interpersonal relationships is key. Each chapter highlights relevant policy guidance and is developed around a practice scenario, discussing key knowledge skills and values relating to its theme. This highly practical book should, therefore, be of value to a range of students at different academic levels, from VQ to Masters, and to practitioners and managers in residential child care. The book draws on ideas from child and youth care and social pedagogic traditions and will appeal to a worldwide audience and provides a valuable addition to the emerging literature around social pedagogy.

Residential Child Care

Author : Ian Milligan
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781412908511
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Residential Child Care written by Ian Milligan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residential Child Care: Collaborative Practice is an innovative book which addresses the specific context of modern residential child care while promoting collaborative practice within a wider social work setting. The book analyzes the collaborative role of organizations, field workers, parents, teachers, and children, and stresses how these interprofessional relationships are crucial to ensuring children's wellbeing. Comprehensive and accessible, the book includes learning outcomes, activities, and case studies to help aid students' understanding. The book successfully balances its theoretical context with a focus on practice, making it an invaluable resource for students and practitioners. It will be useful for social work and social care students, trainee residential workers, and professionals who have an interest in working with looked after children.

Perspectives in Professional Child and Youth Care

Author : James P Anglin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317773357
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives in Professional Child and Youth Care written by James P Anglin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the information, ideas, and inspiration that will help child care workers in their daily struggle to provide better care for children, youth, and families. Perspectives in Professional Child and Youth Care is a much-needed sourcebook of readings on the current state of the art of professional child and youth care in North America. Some of the leading practitioners, academicians, researchers, and administrators provide a “child care perspective,” writing about what they--on the front lines--perceive as the most pressing issues and significant topics in the field today, including the nature of child and youth care, current issues in education and training, therapeutic program issues, key support functions in child and youth programs, the changing work environment and new roles, and developing professionalism in the field of child and youth care. This enormously insightful book will be valuable for use in academic courses and training workshops, as well as for individual child and youth care professionals and practitioners from related disciplines.

Pediatric Disorders of Regulation in Affect and Behavior

Author : Georgia A. DeGangi
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128098775
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Pediatric Disorders of Regulation in Affect and Behavior by : Georgia A. DeGangi

Download or read book Pediatric Disorders of Regulation in Affect and Behavior written by Georgia A. DeGangi and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pediatric Disorders of Regulation in Affect and Behavior, second edition is a skills-based book for mental health professionals working with children experiencing disorders of self-regulation. These children are highly sensitive to stimulation from the environment, emotionally reactive, and have difficulty maintaining an organized and calm state of being. Children with these struggles often have difficulty adapting to changing demands at home and school. The child may additionally struggle with bipolar or mood disorder, anxiety, depression, obsessive–compulsive disorder, Asperger's syndrome, eating or sleep disorders, and/or attention-deficit disorder. This book will help professionals integrate treatment strategies that address the individual's regulatory, sensory integration, and mental health problems. The book is organized with each chapter discussing a different form of dysregulation in eating, sleep, mood regulation, anxiety, attention, and behavioral control. Chapters begin with developmental and neurobiological underpinnings of the problem, include clinical observations, and close with diagnosis and treatment strategies. Recommended treatments integrate aspects of dialectical behavioral therapy, mind–body therapies and sensory integration techniques, and interpersonal therapy. Checklists for diagnosis and treatment planning are included at the conclusion of each chapter with an appendix of 20 skill sheets for use in treatment. - Practical skill-based treatment book for mental health and occupational therapists - Addresses eating, sleep, mood, attention, and behavioral control - Presents integrated treatment using sensory integration, DBT, interpersonal therapy, and more - Includes checklists and skill sheets for use in treatment

Residential Child Care

Author : Andrew Kendrick
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1843105268
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Residential Child Care written by Andrew Kendrick and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on recent research to address key issues in residential child care policy and practice in the UK, offering guidance for developing best practice and improved outcomes for children and young people.

Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons

Author : Helen Meenan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317910737
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons by : Helen Meenan

Download or read book Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons written by Helen Meenan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People are leading significantly longer lives than previous generations did, and the proportion of older people in the population is growing. Residential care for older people will become increasingly necessary as our society ages and, we will require more of it. At this moment in time, the rights of older people receive attention at international and regional levels, with the United Nations, the Organization of American States and the African Union exploring the possibility of establishing new conventions for the rights of older persons. This book explores the rights of older people and their quality of care once they are living in a care home, and considers how we can commence the journey towards a human rights framework to ensure decent and dignified care for older people. The book takes a comparative approach to present and future challenges facing the care home sector for older people in Africa (Kenya), the Arab world (Egypt), Australia, China, England, Israel, Japan and the USA. An international panel of experts have contributed chapters, identifying how their particular society cares for its older and oldest people, the extent to which demographic and economic change has placed their system under pressure and the role that residential elder care homes play in their culture. The book also explores the extent to which constitutional or other rights form a foundation to the regulatory and legislative structures to residential elder care and it examines the important concept of dignity. As a multi-regional study of the care of older person from a human rights perspective, this book will be of excellent use and interest, in particular to students and researchers of family and welfare law, long-term care, social policy, social work, human rights and elder law.

Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality

Author : Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786432099
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality by : Hans-Peter Blossfeld

Download or read book Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality written by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognising that social change over recent decades has strengthened the need for early childhood education and care, this book seeks to answer what role this plays in creating and compensating for social inequalities in educational attainment.

Residential Interventions for Children, Adolescents, and Families

Author : Gary M. Blau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135009929
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Residential Interventions for Children, Adolescents, and Families by : Gary M. Blau

Download or read book Residential Interventions for Children, Adolescents, and Families written by Gary M. Blau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now more than ever there is a need to ensure that best practices are being used in residential programs. As the focus on costs and outcomes increase, residential programs must clearly demonstrate that the interventions provided are efficient and effective. Readers will learn how to: Create strength-based, empowering and healing environments; Better engage and partner with children, adolescents and families, in meaningful ways; Support those who have experienced trauma and loss, and to prevent and eliminate the use of restraint and seclusion; Respect and include cultural indices in practices; Train, mentor, supervise, support and empower staff about how to deliver promising and best practices, and evidence-informed and evidence-based interventions; and Track long-term outcomes, and create funding strategies to better support sustained positive outcomes. This book encourages readers to think strategically about how agencies, communities and systems can identify and implement actions that lead to positive change and how to work more collaboratively to improve the lives of children and adolescents who have experienced emotional and behavioral life challenges and their families.

Human Rights in Child Protection

Author : Asgeir Falch-Eriksen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319948008
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in Child Protection written by Asgeir Falch-Eriksen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research – one that critically assesses child protection policy and professional practice with regard to human rights in general, and the rights of the child in particular. Each chapter author seeks to approach the rights of the child from their own academic field of interest and through a comparative lens, making the research relevant across nation-state practices. The book is split into five parts to focus on the most important aspects of child protection. The first part explains the origins, aim, and scope of the book; the second part explores aspects of professionalism and organization through law and policy; and the third part discusses several key issues in child protection and professional practice in depth. The fourth part discusses selected areas of importance to child protection practices (low-impact in-house measures, public care in residential care and foster care respectively) and the fifth part provides an analytical summary of the book. Overall, it contributes to the present need for a more comprehensive academic debate regarding the rights of the child, and the supranational perspective this brings to child protection policy and practice across and within nation-states. .

Understanding Residential Child Care

Author : Nick Frost
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429765983
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Residential Child Care written by Nick Frost and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, the overall aim of the book is to provide a comprehensive critical guide to the theory and practice of residential care. This is achieved by analysing the history and development of residential child care, examining the current legislative framework and analysing research. The volume has been written against the background of a crisis of confidence in residential child care. The system is often seen as facing perpetual problems of abuse, lack of control and crime. This book seeks to both understand and respond to this challenging situation. Understanding Residential Child Care commences by providing historical and theoretical perspectives. Having provided this analysis the authors move on to examine the empowerment of young people, the framework provided by the Children Act, the role of the manager, the importance of supporting and supervising staff, abuse in care and the experience of leaving care. The book concludes with a chapter suggesting a way forward for residential child care. The core concept explored and applied throughout the book is that of empowerment. It is suggested that this concept can act as an organising framework for re-casting residential child care in a positive manner, so that a quality environment can be provided which can effectively protect and promote the best interests of the child.

Another Kind of Home

Author : Angus Skinner
Publisher : Bernan Press(PA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Another Kind of Home written by Angus Skinner and published by Bernan Press(PA). This book was released on 1992 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a strategic overview of the issues confronting residential child care services and at the same time addresses some basic issues that affect the experience and quality of daily life of young people in residential care. The focus of the review has been the 154 homes and schools in Scotland which are either run by, or registered with, a local authority social work department and provide care for the purposes of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968. The emphasis throughout the report is on the young people's personal experience of theis public service with its immediate and long-term effects on individuals' lives.

Participation in Residential Childcare

Author : Claudia Equit
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
ISBN 13 : 3847418793
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Participation in Residential Childcare written by Claudia Equit and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes the right to participation: children and adolescents are entitled to participate and to have their views taken into account in all issues affecting them in accordance to their age and maturity. The volume explores this right to participation in residential care. The impact of participation and complaint procedures in residential care facilities are evaluated by means of crucial results from an empirical study. How do these participation and complaints procedures work? The authors discuss crucial facilitators and barriers with regard to the implementation of children’s rights to participate.

Rethinking Residential Child Care

Author : Mark Smith
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781861349088
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Residential Child Care written by Mark Smith and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a broad and critical look at policy and practice in residential child care and the ideas that have shaped the development of the sector.

Raising Babies: Should under 3s go to nursery?

Author : Steve Biddulph
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007361033
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Raising Babies: Should under 3s go to nursery? written by Steve Biddulph and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Biddulph, the favourite number one name in parenting psychology – and bestselling author of Raising Boys – examines how different childcare options are likely to affect you and your child in this rivetting and highly topical book