Residential care : horizons for the new century / edited by Hans Göran Eriksson and Torill Tjelflaat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eriksson, Hans Göran.

Tjelflaat, Torill.

Series:

Welfare and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Institutional care.

Children.

Foster home care.

Physical Description:

xx, 219 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]

Contents:

Part I Challenges, Innovations and Education: Elements in Anti-Oppressive Practice

1 Anti-oppressive Practice: Why Bother? / Jane Prior 3

2 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, Hans Du Prie 23

3 The Development of a Residential Unit Working with Sexually Aggressive Young Men / Andrew Kendrick, Richard Mitchell, Mark Smith 38

4 Family Life Educator Training as the Key to Effective Family Development Work / Rosa Heim 56

Part II Foster Care: Preparing For, Practising and Living in the Midst of

5 Preparing Children for Foster Care: Exploring the Role and Value of a Preparatory Residential Placement / Cliona Murphy 71

6 Nadomak Sunca: Alternative Foster Care in Croatia / Odilia van Manen-Rojnic 86

7 Living with Foster Siblings - What Impact has Fostering on the Biological Children of Foster Carers? / Ingrid Hojer, Monica Nordenfors 99

Part III You get it or you do not: Mainstreaming in Education, Ethnic Origin and Competency Level

8 Including Youngsters from Residential Care in Mainstream Schools - Is It Possible? / Arne Tveit, Bjorn Arnesen 121

9 Anti-discriminatory and Anti-oppressive Practice: Working with Ethnic Minority Children in Foster and Residential Care / Toyin Okitikpi 130

10 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 143

Part IV Research, a Useful Tool in Residential and Foster Care

11 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 173

12 An Evaluation of Abused Children's Behaviour following Intervention: A Follow-up Study in Greece / Helen Agathonos-Georgopoulou, Kevin D. Browne, Jasmin Sarafidou 191

13 The Rights and Wrongs of Ethnographic Research in a Youth Residential Setting / Tarja Poso 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754640981

OCLC:

54034872