Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-8zxtt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-10T21:46:33.913Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Towards A Residential Treatment Programme for Emotionally Disturbed Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Peter Mertin  and
Richard M. Baxter
Peter Mertin
Affiliation:
Child, Adolescent and Family Health Services, Adelaide
Richard M. Baxter
Affiliation:
Anglican Child Care Services, Adelaide
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The idea that children whose parents are unable or unwilling to care for them within the familial home should be cared for by the state or voluntary organisation, in small groups by adults who share their lives with the children, has gained considerable currency in the last two decades. (Ainsworth and Fulcher, 1981). However, although now widely accepted in principle, a uniform implementation of group care for children has been slow due to a number of factors.

Type
Research Article
Information
Children Australia , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , Summer 1986 , pp. 19 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. Ainsworth, F. and Fulcher, L. (Ed) Group Care for Children (1981) Tavistock Publications, London.Google Scholar
2. Hansen, P. and Ainsworth, F. “Family and Parenting Analogies in Australian Residential Child Care: A Time for Change” Australian Child and Family Welfare (1982) Vol. 8, No.3.Google Scholar
3. Oakley, L. “Group Home Care”. Australian Child and Family Welfare (1984) Vol. 9, No. 2.Google Scholar
4. Whittaker, J. “Major Approaches to Residential Treatment” in Ainsworth, F. and Fulcher, L. Group Care for Children (1981) Tavistock Publications, London.Google Scholar
5. Trieschman, A. Whittaker, J. and Brendtro, L. The Other 23 Hours: Child Care Work in a Therapeutic Milieu (1969) Alidine, Chicago.Google Scholar
6. Reidy, T. “The Aggressive Character-sitics of Abused and Neglected Children” J. Clin. Psychol (1977) Vol. 33, No. 4.3.0.CO;2-G>CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
7. Kinard, E. “Emotional Development in Physically Abused Children”. Am. J. Orthopsychiat. (1980) Vol. 50, No. 4.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
8. Kempe, R. and Kempe, H. Child Abuse (1978) Fontana Books London.Google ScholarPubMed
9. Elmer, E., and Gregg, G. “Developmental Characteristics of Abused Children” Paediatrics (1967) Vol. 40, No.4.Google Scholar
10. Kent, J. “A Follow-up Study of Abused Children” J. Paediatric Psychology (1976) Spring.Google Scholar
11. Rowe, J. and Lambert, L. “Children Who Wait”. ABAFA (1973) in Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare June 1983.Google Scholar