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'Hard to know what to do': how residential workers experience the mental health needs of young people [PDF]

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2007
This paper aimed to describe the experiences and perspectives of residential child care practitioners in dealing with the mental health difficulties of the children for whom they are responsible and to compare their experience with that of other ...
Judith Furnivall, Philip Wilson, Rosaline S. Barbour, Graham Connelly, Graham Bryce, Louise Phin   +5 more
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Family Choices on Welfare and Territorial Disadvantages: The Perception of the Child Care Services Approach in Urban and Rural Areas

SAGE Open, 2021
Although the research on social-economic and demographic inequities of parents and their approach to formal child care (early childhood education and care [ECEC] system) is increasing, the territorial effects on child care remain underresearched.
Jurga Bucaite-Vilke
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Effectiveness of a Mobile App Intervention to Prevent Dating Violence in Residential Child Care

Psychosocial Intervention, 2020
This study focuses on the effectiveness of an app-based, monitored intervention using the Liad@s app in a residential youth-care setting. The aim of this intervention is to reduce maladaptive beliefs and attitudes linked to dating violence: distortions ...
J. Navarro-Pérez, Amparo Oliver, Á. Carbonell, Barry Schneider   +3 more
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Understanding and addressing Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in residential care in Northern Ireland using a qualitative case study design: The residential social care worker perspective

International Journal of Child Abuse & Neglect, 2021
Michael Roache, Dominic McSherry
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The Subjective Well-Being of Portuguese Children in Foster Care, Residential Care and Children Living with their Families: Challenges and Implications for a Child Care System Still Focused on Institutionalization

Child Indicators Research, 2020
Most studies with children in out-of-home care highlight the problems and challenges associated with residential or foster care, and few have investigated the well-being of these children.
Paulo Delgado, João M. S. Carvalho, Carme Montserrat, Joan Llosada‐Gistau   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

SYSTEMIC REFLEXIVITY IN RESIDENTIAL CHILD CARE: A PEDAGOGICAL FRAME TO EMPOWER PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE

International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2020
This position paper offers a pedagogical frame to empower professional work in residential child care. Jobs in this demanding field are characterized by daily relationships with children of different ages, needs, and cultural backgrounds. There is a need
L. Formenti, Allessandra Rigamonti
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Safer recruitment? protecting children, improving practice in residential child care [PDF]

, 2007
In the wake of a number of high-profile cases of the abuse of children and young people in residential child care, there have been repeated calls for the improvement of recruitment and selection of residential child care staff.
Davidson, Jennifer, Kay, Helen, Kendrick, Andrew, Stevens, Irene   +3 more
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Editorial Vol1 no1

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2002
On behalf of the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC) and the Advisory Board, I am delighted to be welcoming you to the first issue of the Scottish journal of Residential Child Care. We very much hope that you enjoy this new contribution
Andrew Kendrick
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Charting the 21st Century Rise of For-Profit Residential Child Care

Youth
This article explores the increasing prevalence of for-profit residential care, with a particular focus on Great Britain, while also drawing on the international evidence from the Global North. Comprising a critical review of the published evidence (both
Robin Sen, Olga Alexandrovna Ulybina, Lisa Holmes   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Securing safer care staff: a model for the assessment, selection and training of staff to work in residential care

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2006
The recruitment of staff into residential child care presents an ongoing challenge for organisations. Methods of recruitment in the past have been criticised in a range of government reports. Skinner (1992) and others have highlighted the need for better
John Watson, Janice Gould, Gerry Sullivan, Jayne Cockerill   +3 more
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