Group Homes for Children and Young People: The Problem Not the Solution
| Autor: | Frank Ainsworth, Patricia Hansen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
education.field_of_study
Health (social science) Sociology and Political Science Group home business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Population Staffing Social pedagogy 050906 social work Foster care Nursing Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Job satisfaction 0509 other social sciences education business Welfare Accommodation 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Children Australia. 43:42-46 |
| ISSN: | 2049-7776 1035-0772 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/cha.2018.4 |
| Popis: | In every state and territory in Australia, child welfare departments, under various names, maintain or, alternatively, fund group homes for children and young people in the non-government sector. Increasingly, these group homes offer only four places with no integrated treatment or educational services. In that respect they can best be viewed as providing care and accommodation only. Since 2010, following the release of a definition of therapeutic residential care by the National Therapeutic Residential Care Work Group, there has been debate about how to make group homes therapeutic. In 2017, as part of a wider reform effort, New South Wales renamed all their out-of-home care (foster care and residential care) as intensive therapeutic care and ceased using the term residential. The net result is that the group homes in New South Wales will from now on be referred to as intensive therapeutic care homes. This article raises questions about the utility of this renaming and explores whether or not group homes can be therapeutic given the characteristics of the population of children and young people they accommodate, their small size, the staffing complement and the limited job satisfaction with high staff turnover as a consequence of this smallness. All of these factors lead to the well-documented, anti-therapeutic instability of the group home life space. |
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