Description: 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.
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EAN: 9781849059633
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Book Title: Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Yout
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Subject Area: Social Work, Children & Family
Item Height: 236mm
Item Width: 159mm
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Publication Name: Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth: Developing Evidence-Based International Practice
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Mike Stein, Megan Cummings, Ronald Thompson, Erik Knorth, Christopher Bellonci, Charles Izzo, Amaia Bravo, Hans Grietens, Mark Courtney, Richard Barth, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 726g
Number of Pages: 392 Pages