1st Edition

Family-Centered Services in Residential Treatment New Approaches for Group Care

By John Y Powell Copyright 2001
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

Adopt a more effective approach to temporary and long-term residential care! Presenting the voices of staff, parents, and residents, Family-Centered Services in Residential Treatment: New Approaches for Group Care examines the changes and challenges of residential care from the old-fashioned orphanage to the modern group-care home. These thoughtful essays offer suggestions and methods to provide... Read more
Contents
  • Preface and Tribute
  • “You Never Know”
  • Child-Centered or Family-Centered?
  • “On Runaway”
  • Reinventing Residential Childcare: An Agenda for Research and Practice
  • “Migrate”
  • Family-Centered Practice in Residential Treatment Settings: A Parent's Perspective
  • “A Matter of Economics”
  • The Carolinas Project: A Comprehensive Intervention to Support Family-Centered Group Care Practice
  • “The Bishop Visits”
  • Joining Familly-Centered Care and the Team Approach: A Conversation About Process
  • “Progress”
  • Questioning the Continuum of Care: Toward a Reconceptualization of Child Welfare Services
  • “Space Talk”
  • Looking Back to See Ahead “It's All the Little Things”
  • AIDS and a New Generation of Orphans: Is There a Role for Group Care?
  • “The Giving of Gifts”
  • Celebrating Change: A Schema for Family-Centered Practice in Residential Settings
  • Index
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

John Y Powell (Author)