Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth (eBook, ePUB)

Developing Evidence-Based International Practice
Redaktion: Whittaker, James K; Holmes, Lisa; del Valle, Jorge Fernandez del

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857008336
• Artikelnr.: 41498247

Autorenporträt

James K. Whittaker is The Charles O. Cressey Endowed Professor of Social Work Emeritus at the University of Washington, Seattle where he has served as a member of senior faculty since 1970. His research and teaching interests encompass child and family policy and services, and the integration of evidence-based practices into contemporary child & family services. Jorge F. del Valle is the Director of the Child and Family Research Group (GIFI) and a professor at the Department of Psychology at University of Oviedo in Spain. Lisa Holmes is Assistant Director of the Centre for Child and Family Research at Loughborough University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Robbie Gilligan
Trinity College
Dublin. Part 1. Introduction. The Current Landscape of Therapeutic Residential Care: James K Whittaker
Jorge F. del Valle and Lisa Holmes. Part 1. Pathways to Therapeutic Residential Care. Chapter 1
Making Sense of Differential Cross-National Placement Rates for Therapeutic Residential Care: Some Take Away Messages for Policy
June Thoburn
Professor Emeritus
University of East Anglia and Frank Ainsworth
James Cook University
Queensland
Australia. Chapter 2. Needs and characteristics of high-resource users: Spain
Jorge F. del Valle
Amaia Bravo and Ana Sainero
University of Oviedo
Spain. Chapter 3. Needs and characteristics of high-resource using children and youth: North America
John Lyons
University of Ottawa
Canada
Chapter 4. Benarand characteristics of high-resource using children and youth: Denmark
Mette Lausten
Danish National Centre for Social Research
Chapter 5. Part 2. Promising Program Models and Innovative Practices. Varieties of Nordic Residential Care
Turf Jakobsen
Danish National Centre for Social Research
Chapter 6. MultifunC - Multifunctional Treatment in Residential and Community Settings: Norway
Tore Andreassen
Norwegian Directorate for Children
Youth and Family Affairs
Chapter 7. The Family Home Program: An Adaption of the Teaching Family Model at Boys Town
Ronald W. Thompson
Director
Boys Town National Research Institute and Dan Daly
Executive Vice President and Director of Youth Care
Boys Town
Nebraska
Chapter 8. A New Era in the Development of Therapeutic Residential Care in the State of Victoria: Australia
Patricia McNamara
La Trobe University
Australia
Chapter 9. Evidence-based Practices in Therapeutic Residential Care
Sigrid James
Loma Linda University
California
Chapter 10. Creating and maintaining family-staff partnerships in Residential Treatment Programs: Shared Decisions
Full Participationm Mutual Responsibilty
Richard W. Small
The Walker School
Massachusetts
Christopher Bellonci
MD
Tufts University
Massachusetts and President
American Association of Children's Residential Centers
Milwaukee
Wisconsin and Susan Ramsey
The Walker School. Part 4. Preparing Youth For Successful Transitions from Therapeutic Residential Care. Chapter 11. Relationship between Adult Outcomes of Young People Making the Transition to Adulthood from Out-of-Home Care and Prior Residential Care
Nathanael Okpych and Mark Courtney
University of Chicago
Chapter 12. Supportive Pathways for Young People Leaving Care: Lessons Learned from Four Decades of Research
Mike Stein
University of York
UK
Chapter 13. Listening to young people in care in Israel: a brief note from research about successful transitions to adulthood
Anat Zeira
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Part 5. Critically Examining the Current Research Base for Therapeutic Residential Care. Chapter 14. Uncovering What is Inside the 'Black Box' of Effective Therapeutic Residential Youth Care
Annemiek T. Harder
Assistant Professor and Erik Knorth
University of Groningen
Netherlands
Chapter 15. Improving the Research Base for Therapeutic Residential Care: Logistical and Analytic Challenges Meet Methodological Innovations
Bethany R. Lee and Richard P. Barth
University of Maryland
USA. Part 5. Calculating Costs for Therapeutic Residential Care. Chapter 16. Estimating Unit Costs for Therapeutic Residential Care
Lisa Holmes
Centre for Child and Family Research (CCFR)
Loughborough University perspectives and commentaries by: Richard W. Small and Christopher Bellonci: North America
Laura Palareti
University of Bologna and Chiara Berti
University of Chieti-Pescara: Italy
Andrew Kendrick
University of Strathclyde: Scotland
Frank Ainsworth and Deirdre Cheers: Australia. Part 6. Linking Focused Training and Critical Evaluation in Therapeutic Residential Care: A Foundation for Staff Support. Chapter 17. Helping staff to connect quality
practice and evaluation in therapeutic residential care: the SERAR model in Spain
Amaia Bravo
Jorge F. del Valle & Iriana Santos
Child and Family Research Group
University of Oviedo
Spain
Chapter 18. A European perspective on the context and content for social pedagogy in therapeutic residential care
Hans Grietens
University of Groningen
Netherlands
Chapter 19: Engaging the total therapeutic residential care program in a process of quality improvement: Learning from the Care Model
Martha Holden
Michael Nunno and Charles Izzo
Cornell University
New York and James Anglin
University of Victoria
Canada
Chapter 20. Outcomes Management in Residential Treatment: The CANS Approach
John Lyons
University of Ottawa
Canada. Part 8. Conclusion. Shaping the Future for Therapeutic Residential Care
James K Whittaker
Jorge F. del Valle and Lisa Holmes