By John Pressley – The Therapeutic Care Journal 1st April 2021 As a former residential child care worker of 35 continuous years and the Principal of a previous Approved School in the East Midlands region, I found the recent papers on Approved Schools and CHE’s interesting. I have been retired for 14 years, but IContinue reading “Readers response to our ‘Care of Young offenders’ Feb 1st edition.”
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Forest View Residential Houses – Kibble: Specialist services & support for young people facing adversity
Forest View Residential Houses provide nurturing, residential care for children aged between five and twelve. Our two individual houses, Ness and Tay, provide beautiful four and five-bedroom accommodation for children with experience of trauma. Set in Lochwinnoch, a semi-rural village in the west of Scotland, Forest View is surrounded by trees, rugged landscapes and stunningContinue reading “Forest View Residential Houses – Kibble: Specialist services & support for young people facing adversity”
How can staff help reduce self-harm in a residential setting? By Scott Mitchell – The Therapeutic Care Journal
…action research on low-level self-harm that does not have the intention to take life, or Non-Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI) and how to reduce it in a #residentialcare setting.
Visions of hope: UK care home residents’ lockdown art
Ian comes from an artistic background; he has always been an artist and his children are artists too. It is an important part of his identity and staff at Craigielea care home in Renfrew, Scotland, encourage and support Ian, who is living with dementia, to continue his art work. Throughout lockdown, Ian has drawn everyContinue reading “Visions of hope: UK care home residents’ lockdown art”
Dementia inclusive in-home resource | National Gallery of Ireland
George Wallace (1920–2009), Young Woman in a Striped Dress, 1993. © Estate of George Wallace and CARCC, 2019. Photo © NGI
Mentalization-Based Training Program for Child Care Workers in Residential Settings
Mentalization-Based Training Program for Child Care Workers in Residential Settings
Necessity and Invention. By Keith White
These are a few examples to kick-start what the author hopes will be a sharing of ideas from other residential communities. Necessity and Invention. By Keith White
A Foundation for Life – The Therapeutic Care Journal
There is one element of most stories that I have come to recognise however. The home provided values, patterns, discipline, in short: a foundation for life. In some ways the life in the home was institutional and therefore different from much family life: becoming a parent with your own children required a good deal ofContinue reading “A Foundation for Life – The Therapeutic Care Journal”
International Centre News April 2020 – The Therapeutic Care Journal
Latest papers: Bob Hinshelwood and Luca Mingarelli , ‘Who do you think you are? – adolescent groups and everyday life’. Colin Maginn writes about ‘a modest proposal to help children public care’ Keith White offers his two regular pieces from his work at Mill Grove. His first, ‘the silence’ explores just that – the valueContinue reading “International Centre News April 2020 – The Therapeutic Care Journal”
Touch, Physical Restraint and Therapeutic Containment in Residential Child Care
Abstract By Laura Steckley, British Journal of Social Work, published July 7, 2011 The relationship between touch and physical restraint in residential child care is not well understood. Theories of therapeutic containment offer insight into the practice of physical restraint, the place of touch in residential child care practice and the impact of wider fearsContinue reading “Touch, Physical Restraint and Therapeutic Containment in Residential Child Care”
