Residental Child Care: Prospects and Challenges (Research Highlights in Social Work)

✍ Scribed by Andrew Kendrick

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 252
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction: Residential child care / Andrew Kendrick --
Could do better! Supporting the education of looked-after children / Joe Francis --
The health of looked-after children in residential care / Jane Scott, Harriet Ward, Malcolm Hill --
Mental health and children and young people in residential care / Michael van Beinum --
The concept of resilience : messages for residential child care / Brigid Daniel --
Young people leaving residential care : experiences and outcomes / Jo Dixon --
Gender matters in residential child care / Teresa O'Neill --
Disabled children in residential settings / Kirsten Stalker --
Black and minority ethnic children and young people in residential care / Andrew Kendrick --
Prioritising young people's concerns in residential care : responding to peer violence / Christine Barter --
Hold on : physical restraint in residential child care / Laura Steckley, Andrew Kendrick --
Blurring the boundaries : the relationship between secure accommodation and 'alternatives' in Scotland / Aileen Barclay, Lynne Hunter --
Children's voices, children's rights / Ruth Emond --
Therapeutic approaches in residential child care / Irene Stevens, Judy Furnivall --
Staffing, training and recruitment : outcomes for young people in residential care in three countries / Claire Cameron, Janet Boddy --
Leadership, structure and culture in residential child care / Roger Bullock.

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