Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth - Developing Evidence-Based International Practice (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Child Welfare Outcomes
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	October 2014
Contributors:	Hans Grietens • Erik Knorth • Richard Barth • Megan Cummings • Mike Stein • Mark Courtney • Christopher Bellonci • Ronald Thompson • Charles Izzo • Amaia Bravo
Dimensions:	236 x 159 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	392
ISBN-13:	978-1-84905-963-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Child welfare
LSN:	1-84905-963-2
Barcode:	9781849059633

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