The residential youth care worker in action : a collaborative, competency-based approach
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The residential youth care worker in action : a collaborative, competency-based approach
（Haworth marriage and the family）
Haworth Press, c1999
- : alk. paper
- : soft cover
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Explore how these therapeutic practices can enhance your work as a residential youth care worker!The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action: A Collaborative, Competency--Based Approach will help youth care workers administer psychotropic medications, understand psychiatric labels, handle crisis and staffing, and give accurate assessments. Emphasizing ideas that focus on the strengths and abilities of young people from the assessment phase of treatment through discharge, this guidebook will help you take the views and actions of youths into consideration from a change-oriented perspective in order to offer your clients appropriate services. The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action serves to fill in the gap between therapists and residential youth care workers (RYCWs) by emphasizing ideas that therapists have been using for years. This resourceful book takes a relatively new direction in the field by focusing on competency-based as opposed to problem-focused methods. Many of the major concerns that you face as a youth care worker are addressed with easy-to-learn-and-use therapeutic ideas, suggestions, new approaches, and techniques that are demonstrated through case illustrations. Some of these competency-based ideas include:
focusing on what is changeable for youths as opposed to what is not
exploring how you can use language to convey respect and facilitate change by focusing on a youth's possibilities instead of his or her past behavior
using solution talk instead of problem talk, such as saying a youth is very energetic at times instead of hyperactive
respecting young people, their viewpoints, and experiences to create a context and climate that is conducive to change
exploring "future roads" by helping young people create compelling futures, dissolve barriers, and take action toward those preferred futures
managing crisis intervention while simultaneously allowing youths to keep their pride
helping young people realize their accountability within the roles of both psychotropic medications and psychiatric labels
The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action explains several approaches that you can use to positively impact the lives of the young people in your residential facility. Complete with handouts and diagrams such as a post-crisis debriefing form, a level promotion petition form, and a weekly success chart that can be reproduced and used in various residential programs, The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action will help you create a positive atmosphere for youths and prepare them for a successful future.
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword (Michael Durrant)
Preface
The Evolution of Residential Youth Care Work
What's Different About This Book?
How This Book Is Arranged
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. A Day in the Life: The Many Faces of Residential Youth Care Workers
Here, There, and Everywhere: Profiling the Residential Youth Care Worker
The Long and Winding Road: A New Direction for Youth Care Workers
The Heart of the Matter: The Resiliency Factor
Making the Connection: The Power of Relationships
The Toolbox
Building a Foundation: Assumptions of a Collaborative, Competency-Based Approach
Experience, Views/Stories, Action, and Context
Chapter 2. Something to Believe In: From Impossibility to Possibility
What Walt Disney Knew: Creating Possibilities
From Pathology to Competency: A New Language of Change
Wherever You Are, That's Okay
Keeping the Lines Moving and Signposts of Change
Chapter 3. Making Contact: Creating a Respectful Context and Climate for Change
First Impressions
Face-to-Face Assessments
Chapter 4. We're in This Together: Teaming Up in the Service of Change
Creating Change Through Team Meetings and Staffings
It's Your Turn: The Process of Changing Shifts
Thoughts on Level Systems
Chapter 5. Now You See It, Now You Don't: Altering Problematic Patterns of Viewing
The Role of Views
Changing Problematic Patterns of Viewing
A Different View: Externalizing the Problem
Creating Compelling Futures with Possibilities
Chapter 6. Pete and Repeat: Altering Problematic Patterns of Action, Interaction, and Context
Problematic Patterns of Action and Interaction
Changing the Doing of Problematic Patterns of Action and Interaction
Changing the Context
Identifying and Amplifying Change
Chapter 7. "Houston, We Have a Problem": Managing Crisis with an Eye on Possibilities
Crisis
Ideas for On-Call Crisis Management
Smokey the Bear versus Freddy the Fireman: Preventing Crises Before They Happen
Unconditional Conversations: The Power of Relationships
I Didn't Do It! Promoting Accountability
Promoting Accountability Within Preestablished Conditions
Chapter 8. The Journey of 1,000 Miles: Exploring Future Roads with Possibilities
The Big Picture: Sharing Change with Large Audiences
Certifably Changed
At Every Ending Is a New Beginning: Discharge As Transition
Don't Forget Me! The Light That Never Goes Out
Countering Burnout and Valuing Yourself
Referenes
Index
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