| Popis: |
In this chapter on therapeutic residential care in Australia, the authors identify what is perhaps an overemphasis on “downsizing”—for example, reducing to units of four or fewer—without comparable efforts at “specialization” of programs and attention to their critical elements as inadequate to meet the complex needs of differing at-risk youth. More generally, they also question inadequate emphasis on group processes and structure, which they argue is central to the therapeutic milieu; inadequate emphasis on evidence-based practices, including model programs; inadequate national data gathering; and continuing disproportionality of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care as areas of continuing concern. They conclude that the idea of a “revitalized” residential care sector in Australia seems a long way off. |
