Residential Child Care and Its Alternatives : International Perspectives

by Peters, Friedhelm

• ISBN13: 9781858564098
• ISBN10: 1858564093
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-30
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc
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Summary

This book is about children facing major difficulties of some kind, and requiring care outside their families. It shows that child and youth care needs to be professionalised and indicates how this can be done.

Table of Contents

Foreword: FICE	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Residential child care and its alternatives - professional approaches in a discursive field	p. 1
Policy-related strategies on child and youth care
Residential child care in European countries: Recent trends	p. 21
Residential communities as a secure base	p. 33
The contribution of the UK to child care policy, practice and research	p. 41
Structural dynamics in society and innovations in the German residential care system	p. 51
Transforming government services for children and families or 'Why non-reductionist policy, research and practice are almost too difficult to be tackled but too important to be left alone'	p. 71
Professional and research perspectives on a changing world of residential child and youth care
The professionalisation of child and youth care practice: professionalising social pedagogy - from practice to theory and back to practice	p. 00
The rehabilitation process for children and the role of the family	p. 99
Preserving and rehabilitating family relationships in residential group care	p. 121
Participation of children and youth in residential child care as a matter of quality: insights into results of a practice development project	p. 137
The care system for homeless youth in the Netherlands: Perceptions of youngsters through a peer-research approach	p. 149
Index	p. 169
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