Residential care : horizons for the new century

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Residential care : horizons for the new century

edited by Hans Göran Eriksson and Torill Tjelflaat

(Welfare and society)

Ashgate, c2004

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Discussing key contemporary issues in residential and foster care for children, this theoretically and empirically rich volume draws on new research from across Europe and Canada. Contributions stem from a broad spectrum of researchers and practitioners in the field, engaging in comparative international perspectives of problems of enduring relevance. This book particularly focuses on anti-oppressive practice, foster care, mainstreaming in education, ethnic origin, competency level and research as a tool in residential care. The book will make a significant impact to the literature on social work and child and family welfare.

Table of Contents

  • Contents: Introduction, Hans GAran Eriksson. Challenges, Innovations and Education: Elements in Anti-Oppressive Practice: Anti-oppressive practice, why bother?, Jane Prior
  • Changing the horizon: client feedback as a driving force behind innovations in residential child and youth care, Erik J. Knorth, John P.M. Meijers, Arianne Brouwer, Eek Jansen and Hans Du Prie
  • The development of a residential unit working with sexually aggressive young men, Andrew Kendrick, Richard Mitchell and Mark Smith
  • Family life educator training as the key to effective family development work, Rosa Heim. Foster Care: Preparing For, Practising and Living in the Midst of: Preparing children for foster care: exploring the role and value of a preparatory residential placement, Cliona Murphy
  • Nadomak Sunca: alternative foster care in Croatia, Odilia van Manen-Rojnic
  • Living with foster siblings - what impact has fostering on the biological children of foster carers?, Ingrid HAier and Monica Nordenfors. You Get It or You Do Not: Mainstreaming in Education, Ethnic Origin and Competency Level: Including youngsters from residential care in mainstream schools - is it possible?, Arne Tveit and BjArn Arnesen
  • Anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice: working with ethnic minority children in foster and residential care, Toyin Okitikpi
  • Children's needs for self-expressive play (with the 'forgotten group' as a special case), presented as an important issue for residential care, Brian Ashley. Research, a Useful Tool in Residential and Foster Care: Discovering what makes a 'well-enough' functioning residential group care setting for children and youth: constructing a theoretical framework and responding to critiques of grounded theory method, James P. Anglin
  • An evaluation of abused children's behaviour following intervention: a follow-up study in Greece, Helen Agathonos-Georgopoulou, Kevin D. Browne and Jasmin Sarafidou
  • The rights and wrongs of ethnographic research in a youth residential setting, Tarja PAsA
  • Index.

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