Residential Care Books

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   Residential and Boarding Education and Care for Young People: A Model for Good Management and Practice

   By Ewan Anderson

   This innovative book identifies the key elements of good management and practice common to all residential child care settings - whether hospital unit, boarding school, children's home, special school or custodial care establishment - and important variations between the different settings. Using a...

   2004 | 978-0-415-30555-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Managing Residential Care

   By John Burton

   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....

   1998 | 978-0-415-16488-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Alcohol Problems in the Community

   By Larry Harrison

   Community surveys reveal that about 6% of the adult male and 1% of the adult female population in England and Wales are drinking at high risk levels. Alcohol Problems in the Community examines the implications of recent community care legislation for government policy on alcohol. The first part of...

   1995 | 978-0-415-11043-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. The Handbook of Residential Care

   By John Burton

   Designed as a practical guide, The Handbook of Residential Care presents a unique combination of real examples and case studies, analysis, guidance and reflective discussion. It brings together all areas of residential work and all levels of involvement in it, with an emphasis of direct personal...

   1993 | 978-0-415-08636-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Secure Accommodation in Child Care: 'Between Hospital and Prison or Thereabouts?'

   By Robert Harris, Professor Noel W Timms, Noel Timms

   For some children secure accommodation seems to be the only way to control their disparate number of "problems". But why is this so, and from what criteria do social work professionals decide that a child should be put into secure accommodation? In Secure Accommodation in Child Care the authors use...

   1993 | 978-0-415-06282-4 | Paperback (Routledge)