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Group Care for Children: Concept and Issues
By L. Fulcher and L. Ainsworth
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Perspectives
in Professional Child and Youth Care
by James P. Anglin (Editor), Carey J. Denholm, Roy V. Ferguson
(Editor)
Description:
Also published as Child and youth services, v.13, nos.1&2, 1990. Topics
include the nature of Child and Youth Care, current issues in education
and training, therapeutic program issues, key support functions in child
and youth programs, the changing work environment and new roles, and
developing professionalism in the field of Child and Youth Care.
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Knowledge
utilization in residential Child and Youth Care practice
By Jerome Beker ( Zvi Eisikovits-Ed)
Description:
Designed to serve as a
much-needed resource of effective research-based practice, this
book focuses on the utilization of knowledge as an interactive
process between the field and the residential group care
practitioner. Its 15 chapters and numerous case studies
illustrate this dynamic process in many of the critical domains
of residential Child and Youth Care practice, with useful
implications for nonresidential settings as well.
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Acts
of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture
by Jerome Bruner
Book review:
"A psychologist and educator, and a pioneer in the field of
cognition, Bruner provides an outline for a new synthesis of
inquiry into mind and culture. The book consists of the 1989-90
Jerusalem-Harvard lectures divided into four chapters. The
first, "The Proper Study of Man," is a critique of the current
antihistorical, anticultural bias of cognitive psychology,
especially its information-processing model of the mind. "Folk
Psychology as an Instrument of Culture" asserts that culturally
shaped notions, stories, and narratives organize experience and
manage expectations. "Entry into Meaning" views the beginnings
of social understanding as a capacity to render experience in
terms of narrative discourse (to be in a culture is to be in a
set of connecting stories). Finally, "Autobiography and Self"
illustrates the classic concept of Self from the perspective of
cultural psychology � that "selves are not isolated nuclei of
consciousness locked in the head, but are 'distributed'
interpersonally." A challenging manifesto for a cultural
psychology by a major figure in the field."
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Residential
Treatment: A Cooperative, Competency-Based Approach to Therapy and
Program Design
by Michael Durrant
Book Description
With humor and compassion, Durrant
shows how this competence framework can make everyone � from
kids and parents to therapists and staff � a winner.
Synopsis:
Proposing a framework for residential treatment based on the
principle of solution-focused therapy, this book sees the
process as a co-operative one involving clients, parents and
staff, with the aim of helping children and adolescents, and
their families, develop new views of themselves as competent. A
central rites of passage metaphor suggests that placement is a
period of transition, when children can experiment with new ways
of behaviour.
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Being
in Child Care: A Journey into Self
By Gary Fewster
Synopsis:
"This book does not lily-coat the intensity and pain of Child and Youth Care work, nor does it spare the reader from reader
from sharing in the suffering that too often afflicts our
clients, but it also highlights the growth and satisfaction that
await those who find this work their calling."
About The Book:
Primarily intended for the professional Child and Youth Care
worker, this new book challenges the most basic methods and
beliefs of contemporary practice. Written in the form of a
novel, the central issues of child care are brought to life
through the subjective experiences of a young practitioner. Each
issue and experience is analyzed through the dialogues between
the practitioner and his supervisor. As the story unfolds, the
reader is invited to reconsider many of the most fundamental and
time-tested assumptions that lie at the heart of Child and Youth Care. One by one, the layers of professionalism are peeled back
to reveal the essence of it all�the practitioner�s own sense of
self. This results in the inevitable conclusion that personal
and professional development are inextricably interrelated. From
this perspective, it becomes clear how current trends in
training and practice often provide a tragic formula for methods
that focus upon the control of the youngster and result in the
breakdown of relationships and the burnout of the practitioner.
Being in Child Care: A Journey Into Self uses the experiences of
everyday life to establish themes and draw conclusions. As the
story moves from the drama and minutiae of life in a small
residential treatment program to the broadest existential
questions, the reader will explore his or her own personal
experience. Since it can be understood at many different levels,
this book will appeal to the student as much as to the seasoned
practitioner. (Fewster says parents can read it too.)
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Floating
by Mark Krueger
In Motion
by Mark Krueger
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Choices in Caring:
Contemporary Approaches to Child and Youth Care Work
by Mark Krueger and N. Powell
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Developmental Group Care of Children and
Youth: Concepts and Practice
by Henry W. Maier
About the book:
A recognized leader in the professional development of
the Child and Youth Care field presents � in this single
volume � a collection of his work related to group care work
with children and youth. Henry Maier shares his observations
about human development in the group care context, the
perceptions of children and youth, the environments in which
we work with them, the role of the worker, and the
preparation of Child and Youth Care workers. Dr. Maier�s
practical approaches reflect the most recent research and
thinking in human development. This book is a practical text
for courses in the child and youth field, as well as a
useful handbook for child and youth caseworkers already on
the job.
Backcover:
In what way can group care � non-familial living � assure
children a developmental progress similar to that of
children growing up within regular family care settings? In
his practical new text, Henry Maier � one of the most
vibrant, creative, and humane figures in Child and Youth Care work today � answers that question for child care
professionals using a developmental perspective in his
approach to residential group care. He focuses on the
developmental requirements of children and adolescents in
relation to the care they receive while they are in
no-familial, group living situations and also highlights
training for the caregivers in order that they can
effectively provide the kind of caring involvement that
children and youth require. �The real contribution of this
book . . is that it cuts throught the confusion of
competing values and competing points of view to focus on
the care at the heart of child care work,� attests Richard
W. Small, PhD, Executive Director of the Walker Home and
School, Needham, Massachusetts (from the Preface).
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Matters of interpretation
By M. Naklula and S. Ravitch
Book Description
An effective new therapeutic model that integrates the
client's and therapist's values
This groundbreaking book offers therapists and counselors an
effective new therapeutic model based on hermeneutics � the
art and science of interpretation. It recognizes that the
clinician is not a neutral observer in the therapeutic
process but brings to the interaction his or her own values,
judgments, and prejudices.
Grounded in theory yet deeply inspirational, the book is
filled with rich personal reflections from real-world
clinicians who have used this model and found the process to
be deeply transformative. This new approach not only deepens
the therapeutic relationship but has proven to be especially
effective with young clients at risk for negative outcomes
Synopsis
Matters of Interpretation presents an integrative,
self-reflective approach to clinical and counseling
psychology and psychosocial inquiry that is based on
hermeneutics the art and science of interpretation. This
effective approach particularly relevant to working with
children and adolescents at risk for negative life outcomes
allows for the integration of both the client's and the
therapist's values in the therapeutic relationship. The goal
is a mutually transformative experience that results in
increased self-understanding and a deeper therapeutic
relationship.
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Children Who Hate: The
Disorganization and Breakdown of Behavior Controls
by Fritz. Redl
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Controls
from within: Techniques for the treatment of the aggressive child.
By Fritz Redl & David Wineman
Book description:
Redl & Wineman help the reader to conceptualize the
personality and behavior problems they encountered dealing
with a small number of boys in Pioneer House, a residential
facility outside of Detroit. The boys presented numerous
behaviors which today are associated with Oppositional
Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder. Redl & Wineman give
practical ideas about how to work successfully with such
difficult children. They provide numerous examples that
�ring true.�
The book is written from an ego-analytic perspective but the
language is such that anyone can readily grasp the authors'
ideas. All but a few dyed-in-the-wool Skinnerians will agree
with the common-sense approach Redl & Wineman take towards
their charges.
This book is companion to Redl & Wineman's "Children Who
Hate." The reader is advised to buy both books to gain a
full appreciation of the experience and wisdom that
undergirds them.
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Residential
Treatment of Adolescents and Children: Issues, Principles, and Techniques
By John A. Stein
Book description:
A comprehensive text on issues in adolescent residential
treatment, for undergraduate and graduate students in
psychology, social work, and criminal justice. Traces the
history of residential treatment in the US, presents five
programs that represent various approaches to residential
treatment, and covers referral and continuum of care,
learning theory, group dynamics, behavior modification,
therapeutic crisis intervention, and problems such as
runaways, staff burnout, and unwanted publicity. Features
chapter summaries and sample forms.
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The
other
twenty-three hours: Child care work with emotionally disturbed
children in a therapeutic milieu
By Albert E. Trieschmann
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Positive Peer Culture
By Harry H. Vorrath
Book description:
This pioneering work argues that troubled young people
can develop self-worth, significance, dignity, and
responsibility only through commitment to the positive
values of helping and caring for others. This enlarged and
revised edition retains the practical orientation which made
the original attractive to teachers and youth workers, while
adding new material on positive peer culture in schools and
community settings, research on positive peer culture, and
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Narrative
Means to Therapeutic Ends
By Michael White and David Epston
Book review:
Introduces the theory that people have adjustment
difficulties because the story of their life, as created by
themselves or others, does not match their lived experience.
Advises therapists how to help patients rewrite their
stories. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Synopsis
Starting from the assumption that people experience
emotional problems when the stories of their lives, as they
or others have invented them, do not represent the truth,
this volume outlines an approach to psychotherapy which
encourages patients to take power over their problems.
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Caring
for troubled children: Residential treatment in a community context
By James K. Whittaker
Book description:
Originally written in the late 1970s, this book was quickly
recognized for its thoughtful application of the notion of
the importance of environment to the nurture and treatment
of children with severe emotional problems and neurological
impairment in residential settings. Whittaker forcefully
advocates the need for residential treatment as part of a
larger continuum of treatment, and explores the context of
the setting itself as a dynamic therapeutic factor. Out of
print for several years, Caring for Troubled Children has
remained among the most notable attempts in the field to
utilize an ecological perspective. This paperback edition
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