Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Young People

An Attachment and Trauma-Informed Model for Practice

Susan Barton, Rudy Gonzalez and Patrick Tomlinson
Foreword by Brian Burdekin

Paperback: £22.99 / $39.95

2011, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 288pp
ISBN: 978-1-84905-255-9, BIC 2: JKSF JKSB1 JMC

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Children and young people in care who have been traumatized need a therapeutic environment where they can heal and which meets their emotional and developmental needs.

This book provides a model of care for traumatized children and young people, based on theory and practice experience pioneered at the Lighthouse Foundation, Australia. The authors explain the impact of trauma on child development, drawing on psychodynamic, attachment and neurobiological trauma theories. The practical aspects of undertaking therapeutic care are then outlined, covering everything from forming therapeutic relationships to the importance of the home environment and daily routines. The book considers the totality of the child's experience at the individual, group, organization and community levels and argues that attention to all of these is essential if the child is to achieve wellness. Case material from both children and carers are used throughout to illustrate both the impact of trauma and how children have been helped to recovery through therapeutic care.

This book will provide anyone caring for traumatized children and young people in a residential setting with both the understanding and the practical knowledge to help children recover. It will be essential reading for managers and decision-makers responsible for looked after children, child care workers such as residential and foster carers, youth workers, social workers, mental health workers and child welfare academics.

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Author information

• Susan Barton
• Rudy Gonzalez
• Patrick Tomlinson

Subject areas

• Health, Social Work and Social Care

Keywords

• attachment,
• challenging behaviour,
• child development,
• child psychology,
• looked after children,
• mental health,
• residential care,
• social care,
• social work,
• teenagers,
• therapeutic communities,
• trauma

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