Models of 'ordinary' and 'special' daily living: Matching residential care to the mental-health needs of looked after children

Child and Family Social Work

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 336-346

  Ward, Adrian ^a  

^a TAVISTOCK CLINIC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Group care; Looked after; Mental health; Residential child care; Therapeutic communities; Young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749330964     PISSN: 13567500     EISSN: 13652206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2006.00423.x     Document Type: Review

References (63)

1. Anglin, J. (2002) Pain, Normality and the Struggle for Congruence: Reinterpreting Residential Care for Children and Youth. Haworth Press, New York.
2. Barter, C., Renold, E., Berridge, D. & Cawson, P. (2004) Peer Violence in Children's Residential Care. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
3. Bebbington, A. & Miles, J. (1989) The background of children who enter local authority care. British Journal of Social Work, 19, 349-368.
4. Berridge, D. (2002) Residential care. In: What Works for Children? Effective Services for Children and Families (eds D. McNeish, T. Newman & H. Roberts). Open University Press, Buckingham.
5. Berridge, D. & Brodie, I. (1998) Children's Homes Revisited. Jessica Kingsley, London.
6. Biehal, N., Clayden, J., Stein, M. & Wade, J. (1995) Moving on - Young People and Leaving Care Schemes. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London.
7. Bowlby, J. (1988) A Secure Base Clinical Applications of Attachment Theory. Routledge, London.
8. Brazelton, T.B.& Cramer, B.G. (1991) The Earliest Relationship: Parents, Infants and the Drama of Early Attachment. Karnac, London.
9. Brodie, I. (2001) Children's Homes and School Exclusion Redefining the Problem, Jessica Kingsley, London.
10. Brown, A. & Clough, R. (1989) Groups and Groupings: Life and Work in Day and Residential Centres, Tavistock/Routledge, London/New York.
11. Bullock, R., Little, M. & Milham, S. (1993) Residential Care for Children: a Review of the Research, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London.
12. Carter, J. (2003) The meaning of good experience. In: Therapeutic Communities for Children and Young People (eds A. Ward, K. Kasinski, J. Pooley & A. Worthington). Jessica Kingsley, London.
13. Clough, R., Bullock, R. & Ward, A. (2006) What Works in Residential Child Care. A Review of Research Evidence and the Practical Considerations. National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care. National Children's Bureau, London.
14. Collie, A. (2002) Opportunistic staff development strategies in therapeutic communities. Therapeutic Communities, 23, 125-132.
15. Cottrell, J. (1996) Social Networks Social Influences in Adolescence. Routledge, London.
16. Davis, A. (1981) The Residential Solution. Tavistock, London.
17. Department of Health (1991) The Children Act 1989 Guidance and Regulations. Volume 4 Residential Care. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London.
18. Department of Health (1998) Caring for Children Away from Home. Wiley, Chichester.
19. Dimigen, G., Del Priore, C., Butler, S., Evans S., Ferguson L., Swan M. (1999) Psychiatric Disorder among children at time of entering local authority care: questionnaire survey. British Medical Journal, 319, 675.
20. Dockar-Drysdale, B. (1990) The Provision of Primary Experience Winnicottian Work with Children and Adolescents. Free Association Books, London.
21. Douglas, T. (1986) Group Living. The Application of Group Dynamics in Residential Settings. Tavistock, London.
22. Emond, R. (2003) Putting the care into residential care.The role of young people. Journal of Social Work, 3, 321-337.
23. Fahlberg, V. (ed.) (1990) Residential Treatment: a Tapestry of Many Therapies. Perspectives Press, Indianapolis.
24. Farmer, E. & Pollock, S. (1998) Sexually Abused and Abusing Children in Substitute Care. Wiley, Chichester.
25. Frost, N., Mills, S. & Stein, M. (1999) Understanding Residential Child Care. Ashgate, Aldershot.
26. Gilligan, R. (2004) Promoting resilience in child and family social work: issues for social work practice, education and policy. Social Work Education, 23, 93-104.
27. Gilligan, R. (2005) Resilience and residential care for children and young people. In: Facing Forward Residential Child Care in the 21st Century (eds D. Crimmens & I. Milligan). Russell House Publishing, Lyme Regis.
28. Hawkins, P. (1989) The social learning approach to residential and day care. In: Groups and Groupings:Life and Work in Day and Residential Centres (eds A. Brown & R. Clough). Tavistock/Routledge, London/New York.
29. Hayden, C. (1997) Children Excluded from Primary School Debates, Evidence and Responses. Open University Press, Buckingham.
30. Hayden, C., Goddard, J., Gorin, S. & Van Der Spek, N. (1999) State Child Care Looking After Children? Jessica Kingsley, London.
31. Hudson, J. (2000) Peer groups: a neglected resource. In: Residential Child Care International Perspectives on Links with Families and Peers. (eds M. Chakrabarti & M. Hill). Jessica Kingsley, London.
32. Jones, A. & Waul, D. (2005) Residential care for black children. In: Facing Forward Residential Child Care in the 21st Century (eds D. Crimmens & I. Milligan). Russell House Publishing, Lyme Regis.
33. Madge, N. (1994) Children and Residential Care in Europe. NCB, London.
34. Maier, H.W. (1975) Learning to learn and living to live in residential treatment. Child Welfare, 54, 400-420.
35. Maier, H.W. (1981) Essential components in care and treatment environments for children. In: Group Care for Children. Concept and Issues (eds F. Ainsworth & L. Fulcher). Tavistock, London.
36. Mather, M., Humphrey, J. & Robson, J. (1997) The statutory medical and health needs of looked after children. Time for a radical review? Adoption and Fostering, 21, 36-39.
37. Meltzer, H., Corbin, T., Gatward, R., Goodman, R. & Ford, T. (2002) The Mental Health of Young People Looked After by Local Authorities in England. Summary Report A Survey Carried Out by the Social Survey Division of ONS on Behalf of the Department of Health. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London.
38. Millar, J. (2005) Child-centred residential care: the blueprint project. In: Facing Forward Residential Child Care in the 21st Century (eds D. Crimmens & I. Milligan). Russell House Publishing, Lyme Regis.
39. Nirje, B. (1969) The normalization principle - implications and comments. Journal of Mental Subnormality, 16, 62-70.
40. Perry, B., Pollard, R., Blakley, T., Baker, W. & Vigilant, D. (1995) Childhood trauma, the neurobiology of adaptation and 'user-dependent' development of the brain: how 'states' become 'traits'. Infant Mental Health Journal, 16, 271-291.
41. Redl, F. (1966) When We Deal with Children. Free Press, New York.
42. Saleebey, D. (2005) The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice, 4th edn. Allyn & Bacon, London/Boston.
43. Sinclair, I. & Gibbs, I. (1998) Children's Homes A Study in Diversify. Wiley, Chichester.
44. Singh (2005) Thinking beyond 'diversity': black minority ethnic children in Scotland. In: Facing Forward Residential Child Care in the 21st Century (eds D. Crimmens & I. Milligan). Russell House Publishing, Lyme Regis.
45. Smith, M. (2005) Rethinking residential child care: A child and youth care approach. In: Facing Forward: Residential Child Care in the 21st Century (eds D. Crimmens & I. Milligan). Russell House Publishing, Lyme Regis.
46. Stein, M. (1994) Leaving care, education and career trajectories. Oxford Review of Education, 20, 348-360.
47. Stern, D. (1985) The Interpersonal World of the Infant: a View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology. Basic Books, New York.
48. Stokoe, P. (2003) Group thinking. In: Therapeutic Communities for Children and Young People (eds A. Ward, K. Kasinski, J. Pooley & A. Worthington). Jessica Kingsley, London.
49. Tomlinson, P. (2004) Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children and Young People Theory and Practice. Jessica Kingsley, London.
50. Treischman, A.E., Whittaker, J.K. & Brendtro, L.K. (1973) The Other 23 Hours Child Care Work with Emotionally Disturbed Children in a Therapeutic Milieu. Aldine, New York.
51. Trist, E.L. (2003) The assumption of ordinariness as a denial mechanism: innovations and conflict in a coal mine. In: The Psychodynamics of Organizations (eds L. Hirschhorn & C.K. Barnett). Temple University Press, Philadelphia.
52. Utting, W. (1997) People Like Us: The Report of the Review of Safeguards for Children Living Away from Home. Department of Health/Welsh Office. The Stationery Office, London.
53. Vorrath, H.H. & Brendtro, L.K. (1974) Positive Peer Culture. Aldine, Chicago.
54. Wade, J., Biehal, N., Clayden, J. & Stein, M. (1998) Going Missing Young People Absent from Care. Wiley, Chichester.
55. Ward, A. (1995) Opportunity led work: 1. Introducing the concept. Social Work Education, 14, 89-105.
56. Ward, A. (1996) Opportunity led work: 2.The framework. Social Work Education, 15, 40-59.
57. Ward, A. (2003) Using everyday life: opportunity led work. In: Therapeutic Communities for Children and Young People (eds A. Ward, K. Kasinski, J. Pooley & A. Worthington). Jessica Kingsley, London.
58. Ward, A. (2006) Working in Group Care Social Work in Residential and Day Care Settings, 2nd edn. Policy Press, Bristol.
59. Ward, A., Kasinski, K., Pooley, J. & Worthington, A. (eds) (2003) Therapeutic Communities for Children and Young People. Jessica Kingsley, London.
60. Whitaker, D. (1985) Using Groups to Help People. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.
61. Whitaker, D., Archer, L. & Hicks, L. (1998) Working in Children's Homes: Challenges and Complexities. Wiley, Chichester.
62. Wolfensberger, W. (1983) Social Role Valorisation: a proposed new term for the principle of Normalisation. Mental Retardation, 21, 235-239.
63. Woodhead, J. (1999) Containing care. In: Loving Hating and Survival A Handbook for All Who Work with Troubled Children and Young People (eds A. Hardwick & J. Woodhead). Ashgate, Aldershot.