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Intuition Is Not
Enough: Matching Learning With Practice in Therapeutic Child Care
by Adrian Ward (Editor), Linnet McMahon (Editor)
Book
description:
It explores the connections between the challenges of therapeutic
practice with disturbed children and of professional training in social
work and therapy. Advancing the principle that professional training
must reflect the key principles of professional practice, the
contributors to this volume demonstrate how the developmental principles
underlying therapeutic work with young people can influence the design
and practice of training. The book is comprised of contributions from
participants in the University of Reading program that pioneered this
method of therapeutic instruction, which has come to be known as the
"matching principle." Authors who have implemented or undergone this
form of training describe how they have been able to apply their
learning in the course of professional practice, and the struggles they
have encountered in doing so
Book synopsis
Designed as a guide for trainers and academic staff as well as for
practitioners working with the most disturbed children and young people,
this book seeks to explore the connections between the challenges of
practice and of learning. The book introduces the "matching principle" – the principle that, in order to be successful, training for any field of
practice should "match" or reflect key aspects of that practice in terms
of personal and professional experience as well as academic content.
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Choices in Caring:
Contemporary Approaches to Child and Youth Care Work
by Mark Krueger, Norman Powell
Book excert:
"Child and youth care is largely about choices. Choices that we make
when we enter the field. Choices that we make when we select a certain
intervention strategy or philosophy of treatment. And most important,
the constructive choices that we hope our children will be empowered to
make after they have been in our care."
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No
such thing as a bad kid!: Understanding and Responding to the challenging Behaviour of Troubled Children and Youth
By Charles D. Appelstein
Larry
Brendtro, Ph.D., Dept. of Special Education Augustana College, South
Dakota
"Anyone concerned with troubled and at-risk
youth will be captured by this treasure of practical strategies for
respectful behavior management. It is a refreshing new resource."
Mary Allen, Treatment
Today
"I personally learned a tremendous amount from
the perceptive approach the author uses. He 'becomes the kid",
offering a unique understanding of these young people."
Book Description:
Written specifically for teachers, child and
youth-care professionals, and foster parents, No Such Thing As a
Bad Kid is packed with information for anyone who lives or works
with youngsters at risk. This empowering handbook provides hundreds
of hands-on tips and sample dialogues which can help revolutionize
your interactions with troubled kids and their interactions with the
world. Even parents of children not at risk will benefit from this
book.
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Group therapy with troubled youth: A cognitive interactive
approach
By
Sheldon Rose
Book description:
Incorporating cognitive, behavioural, social resources and
small group theory into one model, this volume offers strategies
for treating adolescents in a variety of groups. Anger
management, negotiation and using social support networks are
among the topics covered. The book is illustrated with case
studies, and practical exercises are included.
Following an overview of groupwork, Sheldon D Rose explores
assessment, intervention and treatment. The book concludes with
examples of specific applications, and discussions on training
and research issues. Throughout, the author addresses such
topics as: dealing with disruptive young people; using the group
to develop completed home tasks; formulating achievable goals;
assisting group members to help each other; and coordinating
family and group therapy.
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Working
With Aggressive Youth: A Sourcebook for Child Care Providers
By Boys Town Press
Book Description:
This book shows how to successfully manage aggressive
behavior exhibited by youth in open, nonsecure settings such as schools,
foster homes, shelters, and camps. It discusses how to prevent milder
forms of aggression from escalating into serious, violent behavior and
how staff can build relationships with youth. This book will help you
understand the roots of aggressive behavior and how you can reverse the
pattern and help youth develop positive relationships with adults and
peers. Learn how your emotional control can defuse a crisis and help the
youth regain control. The book describes how to build on the special
strengths and qualities of youth and to teach them alternative ways of
behaving. Topics include characteristics, correlates, and risk factors
of aggressive youth, setting tolerance levels, pinpointing aggressive
behavior, relationship-building and Effective Praise, teaching
alternatives to aggressive behavior, the short-term solution of crisis
intervention, and the long-term solution of problem-solving.
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Residential child care: International perspectives on links
with families and peers
By Mono Charabarti and Malcolm Hill
Book description:
Children have a much higher chance of permanently leaving care
if they have strong family and peer group links outside their
care home. Reflecting current political and policy priorities,
this work focuses on new developments designed to promote these
family and network relationships. the book examines both care
policies and individual schemes which involved families and
other network members in the planning of care of children looked
after in residential units or children's homes. The book
provides guidelines on how to broaden the focus of residential
care from staff-children relationships within the institution to
more diffuse social networks of family and peers and outlines
the principles which underpin the new emphasis on external
social contacts. Including examples of innovatory ideas and good
practice from abroad, this volume shows why encouraging families
to maintain an active role in the welfare of their children in
care is so important, and explores the implications for child
welfare systems as well as individual establishments, managers
and practitioners.
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