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Family-centred residential care: the new reality? |
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Child and Family Social Work, 17(2), May 2012, pp.170-179. |
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1356-7500 |
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1365-2206 |
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Residential care may include various therapeutic interventions. This paper considers therapeutic approaches to residential care with specific attention to the question of family involvement. It examines the contention that family involvement could improve long-term outcomes for young people in residential care, even when family problems have contributed to the young person's accommodation in care. The paper addresses 3 key areas: defining family centredness; key processes in parental involvement; and outcomes of family-centred residential care. While research findings are somewhat mixed, there is evidence that family-centred services are associated with positive outcomes. Family-centred approaches may be beneficial regardless of previous relationship quality. However, the literature also shows that family-centred residential care is not easy to achieve. Successful involvement requires more than parent–child contact; it entails genuine involvement of parents, in decision-making and in children's daily lives. Professionals must not only be concerned with the care and development of the child, but also with the role of the parent in their child's development, understood within an ecological perspective. |
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article; |
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families; family relations; family support; family therapy; family-centred approach; intervention; looked after children; outcomes; parenting; residential child care; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=2aa98947-8ef3-4e96-9c63-6442e2f5969e |
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