Managing residential care / John Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, John, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Institutional care--Great Britain--Management.

Physical Description:

xvii, 261 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Managing Residential Care puts forward suggestions for improving the development of residential care through better management. Extended examples and realistic case studies throughout demonstrate how managers can succeed and how sometimes the powerful forces of mismanagement can obstruct them.

Contents:

part Part I Five stories of management

chapter People and places

chapter 1 Marcia

chapter 2 Bob

chapter 3 Noreen

chapter 4 Lok

chapter 5 Janet and Jeeva

part Part II Thinking about residential care: its context, organisation and management

chapter 6 The wider picture and the core task

chapter 7 Becoming a good manager in a hostile environment

part Part III The practicalities of managing a therapeutic social ecology

chapter 8 Residents

chapter 9 Staff

chapter 10 The building: the therapeutic environment

chapter 11 Money, budgets and finance

chapter 12 Putting it all together and making it work: the therapeutic ecology in action

part Part IV Outside influences

chapter 13 Feet of clay, seats of power, ivory towers-and egg mayonnaise on the keyboard

chapter 14 The policy lite

chapter 15 Inspection and independent outsiders: protecting residents.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-256) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-71039-9

1-134-71040-2

1-280-46333-3

0-203-01036-1

9786610463336

OCLC:

437250489