Residential Care: Horizons for the New Century

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ISBN: 9780754640981 | 0754640981
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/28/2004

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Discussing key contemporary issues in residential and foster care for children, this theoretically and empirically rich volume draws on new research from across Europe and Canada. It engages in comparative international perspectives of problems of enduring relevance.

List of Figures

vii

List of Tables

viii

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

xii

PART I: CHALLENGES, INNOVATIONS AND EDUCATION: ELEMENTS IN ANTI-OPPRESSIVE PRACTICE

Anti-oppressive Practice: Why Brother?

(20)

Jane Prior

Changing the Horizon: Client Feedback as a Driving Force behind Innovations in Residential Child and Youth Care

(15)

Erik J. Knorth

John P.M. Meijers

Arianne Brouwer

Eek Jansen

Hans Du Prie

The Development of a Residential Unit Working with Sexually Aggressive Young Men

(18)

Andrew Kendrick

Richard Mitchell

Mark Smith

Family Life Educator Training as the Key to Effective Family Development Work

(15)

Rosa Heim

PART II: FOSTER CARE: PREPARING FOR, PRACTISING AND LIVING IN THE MIDST OF

Preparing Children for Foster Care: Exploring the Role and Value of a Preparatory Residential Placement

(15)

Cliona Murphy

Nadomak Sunca: Alternative Foster Care in Croatia

(13)

Odilia van Manen-Rojnic

Living with Foster Siblings - What Impact has Fostering on the Biological Children of Foster Carers?

(22)

Ingrid Hojer

Monica Nordenfors

PART III: YOU GET IT OR YOU DO NOT: MAINSTREAMING IN EDUCATION, ETHNIC ORIGIN AND COMPETENCY LEVEL

Including Youngsters from Residential Care in Mainstream Schools -- Is It Possible?

121

(9)

Arne Tveit

Bjorn Arnesen

Anti-discriminatory and Anti-oppressive Practice: Working with Ethnic Minority Children in Foster and Residential Care

130

(13)

Toyin Okitikpi

Children's Needs for Self-expressive Play (with the `Forgotten Group' as a Special Case), Presented as an Important Issue for Residential Care

143

(30)

Brian Ashley

PART IV: RESEARCH, A USEFUL TOOL IN RESIDENTIAL AND FOSTER CARE

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

173

(18)

James P. Anglin

An Evaluation of Abused Children's Behaviour following Intervention: A Follow-up Study in Greece

191

(12)

Helen Agathonos-Georgopoulou

Kevin D. Browne

Jasmin Sarafidou

The Rights and Wrongs of Ethnographic Research in a Youth Residential Setting

203

(14)

Tarja Poso

Index

217

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