Therapeutic residential care in Australia : taking stock and looking forward / Sara McLean, Rhys Price-Robertson and Elly Robinson
- Bib ID:
- 5784673
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- Author:
- McLean, Sara
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- Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2011
- 22 p. ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781921414800
- Series:
- NCPC issues, 1446-9995 ; no. 35.
- Summary:
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Therapeutic residential care (TRC) is becoming an increasingly relevant out-of-home care option for children and young people with multiple and complex needs. It is a new and developing approach in Australia, one aimed not simply at containment of the 'hard cases' - as is often the case in traditional residential care - but rather at actively facilitating healing and recovery from the effects of abuse, neglect and separation from family. In this Issues Paper, therapeutic residential care is described and contrasted with other models of out-of-home care. The theory and evidence supporting the use of this form of care are examined and used to develop a set of key elements, which, it is argued, should guide the provision of therapeutic residential care in Australia.
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- Introduction
- Definition of therapeutic residential care
- Residential care in Australia and internationally
- The current state of therapeutic residential care in Australia
- Theoretical underpinnings of therapeutic residential care
- What does the research literature tell us about the effectiveness of residential care?
- What can practitioners and other experts tell us about what might work in residential care?
- What are the key elements of effective therapeutic residential care?
- The way forward
- Appendix 1: Examples of promising programs that may inform the development of therapeutic residential care.
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- "National Child Protection Clearinghouse"
- This paper draws in part on the proceedings of National Therapeutic Residential Care Workshop, held in Melbourne in September 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-20)
- Also available in PDF and HTML versions via the internet. Address as at 6/02/2012: http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/pubs/issues/issues35/issues35.pdf
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