Pub Date : 2023-10-15DOI: 10.1080/0886571x.2023.2266987
Elizabeth C. Tampke, Chanelle T. Gordon, Jay L. Ringle, Phuc T. Nguyen, Grace Ende, Patrick Tyler
ABSTRACTA better understanding of how childhood adversity (CA) patterns influence the effectiveness of Trauma Informed Care (TIC) for youth in residential programs is needed. Utilizing a longitudinal design, the study examined how CA patterns influenced aggression and self-injurious behavior during treatment and emotional and conduct outcomes for 1,343 racially diverse adolescents in a TIC residential program. Latent class analysis identified five CA patterns. Subsequent mixed, two-factor ANCOVAs indicated youth from all CA patterns experienced parallel decreases in emotional problems from intake to discharge while changes in conduct problems during this same period differed by CA pattern. Likewise, Hierarchical Linear Modeling revealed that youths’ self-injurious behavior and aggressive behaviors over the first 12 months of the program also differed by CA pattern. Some demographic differences based on sex and race were found, which are discussed in turn. Findings indicate that while the program is functioning as TIC, more tailored support is needed for youth with specific CA patterns and demographics.Practice Implications Trauma-informed practices are important for improving emotional well-being in residential care.Tailored interventions for youth with specific trauma histories may help reduce self-injurious behavior and behavior problems.TIC programs may better serve youth with a variety of trauma histories by incorporating interventions that target social development.KEYWORDS: Residential treatmentTraumaEmotional problemsAggressionSelf-injurious behavior Disclosure statementDr. Gordon, Mr. Ringle, Ms. Ende, and Dr. Tyler are all researchers at the same institution which houses the evaluated residential program. Several measures were taken to mitigate this potential conflict of interest including utilizing a priori hypotheses and statistical plans, collaborating with colleagues/authors outside of the program institution, and utilizing rigorous statistical techniques based on sound scientific support.Supplementary materialSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/0886571X.2023.2266987.Additional informationFundingThe work was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health [T32HD101392].
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Pub Date : 2023-10-15DOI: 10.1080/0886571x.2023.2253727
Frank Ainsworth
"Looking Back and Learning from Kew Cottages." Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
{"title":"Looking Back and Learning from Kew Cottages <b>Failed Ambitions. Kew cottages and changing ideas of Intellectual disabilities</b> , edited by Monk L A.Henderson D.Bigby C.Broome R. and Holmes K., Monash University Press, (2023), 355 pp., Cost Aust$35.70","authors":"Frank Ainsworth","doi":"10.1080/0886571x.2023.2253727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0886571x.2023.2253727","url":null,"abstract":"\"Looking Back and Learning from Kew Cottages.\" Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":45491,"journal":{"name":"Residential Treatment for Children & Youth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135758931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-15DOI: 10.1080/0886571x.2023.2266371
Nai-Wei Kuo, Szu-Yin Chu, Rong-An Jhuo
ABSTRACTThis study examined the views of female juveniles in residential placement at the Adolescents’ Home run by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan, on their resilience in education within residential institutions (RERI) by administering the proposed RERI Questionnaire survey to all female juveniles placed in the Adolescents’ Home. A total of 126 complete responses were returned. Moreover, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 respondents for further exploration. The respondents obtained high scores for their views on RERI, and the respondents’ RERI was affected by background variables. The implications for practice and future research are outlined herein.KEYWORDS: Female juvenilesresidential institutionsTaiwan Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The vision of the Adolescents’ Home in Taiwan is to rehabilitate children and teenagers and provide them with a nurturing learning environment where they can access professional holistic services, receive guidance under competent guardians, and embrace a new life. Juveniles are placed in this home in accordance with relevant Taiwanese regulations (i.e., the Protection of Children and Youths Welfare and Rights Act [2021], Children and Youth Sexual Exploitation Prevention Act [2018], and Juvenile Justice Act [2021]); such juveniles include juvenile offenders, youths who engage in sexual intercourse or obscene acts, and children who experience abandonment and physical or mental abuse. The home provides diverse services, such as guidance for schooling, vocational guidance, psychological consultation, career guidance, adaptive education, health management, life care, legal consultation, group guidance, and recreational activities.2. The data on the characteristics of the participants (Table 1) indicated that most of the female juveniles had been placed for 6–18 months (i.e., 41%); thus, we divided them into three categories on the basis of their placement period (i.e., <6 months, 6–18 months, and >18 months).3. This factor refers to illegal drug use.4. This factor refers to the use of antidepressants, anxiolytic/hypnotics, and antipsychotics.5. According to the regulations in Taiwan, female juveniles aged between 12 and 18 years are placed in the Adolescents’ Home; therefore, the respondents who were aged 18 years or older were placed when they were younger than 18 years.
{"title":"Views of Female Juveniles in Residential Placement on Their Resilience in Education within Residential Institutions","authors":"Nai-Wei Kuo, Szu-Yin Chu, Rong-An Jhuo","doi":"10.1080/0886571x.2023.2266371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0886571x.2023.2266371","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis study examined the views of female juveniles in residential placement at the Adolescents’ Home run by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan, on their resilience in education within residential institutions (RERI) by administering the proposed RERI Questionnaire survey to all female juveniles placed in the Adolescents’ Home. A total of 126 complete responses were returned. Moreover, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 respondents for further exploration. The respondents obtained high scores for their views on RERI, and the respondents’ RERI was affected by background variables. The implications for practice and future research are outlined herein.KEYWORDS: Female juvenilesresidential institutionsTaiwan Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The vision of the Adolescents’ Home in Taiwan is to rehabilitate children and teenagers and provide them with a nurturing learning environment where they can access professional holistic services, receive guidance under competent guardians, and embrace a new life. Juveniles are placed in this home in accordance with relevant Taiwanese regulations (i.e., the Protection of Children and Youths Welfare and Rights Act [2021], Children and Youth Sexual Exploitation Prevention Act [2018], and Juvenile Justice Act [2021]); such juveniles include juvenile offenders, youths who engage in sexual intercourse or obscene acts, and children who experience abandonment and physical or mental abuse. The home provides diverse services, such as guidance for schooling, vocational guidance, psychological consultation, career guidance, adaptive education, health management, life care, legal consultation, group guidance, and recreational activities.2. The data on the characteristics of the participants (Table 1) indicated that most of the female juveniles had been placed for 6–18 months (i.e., 41%); thus, we divided them into three categories on the basis of their placement period (i.e., <6 months, 6–18 months, and >18 months).3. This factor refers to illegal drug use.4. This factor refers to the use of antidepressants, anxiolytic/hypnotics, and antipsychotics.5. According to the regulations in Taiwan, female juveniles aged between 12 and 18 years are placed in the Adolescents’ Home; therefore, the respondents who were aged 18 years or older were placed when they were younger than 18 years.","PeriodicalId":45491,"journal":{"name":"Residential Treatment for Children & Youth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135758927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/0886571x.2023.2260624
Lisa Holmes, Camela Hughes
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Pub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1080/0886571x.2023.2262217
Lynn van Schie, Karin Nijhof, Eva Mulder, Chris Kuiper, Annemiek Harder
ABSTRACTIn the last decade, living groups in residential youth care facilities in The Netherlands have gradually grown in size with eight to twelve adolescents per group, which is related to an increase in workload and overburdened personnel. Research suggests that a smaller group size of up to six adolescents can have a positive impact on the living and working environment, and therefore small-scale facilities are advocated as a an alternative for regular residential youth care. Little is known about the experiences of residential care personnel working in these small-scale facilities. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of the transformation toward small-scale facilities from the perspective of residential care personnel. The results show, in line with previous studies, that professionals working in small-scale facilities experience a safer and more positive group climate and that they are more able to invest in a positive therapeutic relationship with the adolescents, than working on regular residential groups. Moreover, working on a group with fewer adolescents affects the working climate in a positive way. Recommendations for practice and further research are proposed.KEYWORDS: Small-scaleresidential youth caretransformationprofessionalsexperiences Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1080/0886571X.2023.2243206
David Collins, C. Katz, Halley Cianfarini, Eden Wall
ABSTRACT In this study, we seek to explore the demographic features of the frontline residential workforce (especially during the COVID-19 pandemic) and the potential impact of different funding models on the retention of residential care staff. More specifically, we compare the effects of a per-diem funding model and a budget-based funding model on the turnover rates of frontline child-care staff members at The Children’s Village, a large child welfare agency in Dobbs Ferry, NY, USA. This study includes analysis of employee data from two cohorts over a period of five years (2017- 2021), with an average annual point in time cohort of 1,263 employees over the five year sample period. Using descriptive analyses, we find the following: (1) the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is visible in several key ways; (2) the budget-based programs showed a higher median length of stay, but a lower average and (3) turnover in per diem programs was higher than in budget-based programs in four out of five years, and overall across the five-year sample. We offer possible reasons for our findings, relevant implications, and areas for future research.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1080/0886571X.2023.2243211
Vera Verhage, D. Jansen, C. Wunderink, M. Alma, S. Reijneveld, H. Grietens
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to gain insight into the experiences of social work practitioners’, on how a social work bachelor’s degree program prepares them for working in residential youth care settings. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore experiences of social workers. The interviews were thematically analyzed and three themes were identified: theoretical knowledge, practical skills and work setting. Participants reported that the theoretical knowledge they gained during their education was very valuable, but that the relevance of this knowledge depended on the specific work setting. Participants further wished they had received more practical training during their education, especially regarding dealing with severe problem behavior like aggression. Concerning the work setting, participants often felt insufficiently informed on and ill-prepared for understaffing, high turnover rates, the extensive list of tasks, and irregular working hours. Finally, findings imply a need to enrich the curriculum using role-playing and addressing gaps between education and the specific work setting by offering continued education after graduation in a flexible and modular way. Adjustments to the BSW curriculum may help social workers to be better prepared for the demanding workplace and thereby contributes to better outcomes of residential youth care.
{"title":"How the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) Prepares One for Working in a Residential Youth Care Setting: A Thematic Analysis of Youth workers’ Experiences in the Netherlands","authors":"Vera Verhage, D. Jansen, C. Wunderink, M. Alma, S. Reijneveld, H. Grietens","doi":"10.1080/0886571X.2023.2243211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0886571X.2023.2243211","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to gain insight into the experiences of social work practitioners’, on how a social work bachelor’s degree program prepares them for working in residential youth care settings. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to explore experiences of social workers. The interviews were thematically analyzed and three themes were identified: theoretical knowledge, practical skills and work setting. Participants reported that the theoretical knowledge they gained during their education was very valuable, but that the relevance of this knowledge depended on the specific work setting. Participants further wished they had received more practical training during their education, especially regarding dealing with severe problem behavior like aggression. Concerning the work setting, participants often felt insufficiently informed on and ill-prepared for understaffing, high turnover rates, the extensive list of tasks, and irregular working hours. Finally, findings imply a need to enrich the curriculum using role-playing and addressing gaps between education and the specific work setting by offering continued education after graduation in a flexible and modular way. Adjustments to the BSW curriculum may help social workers to be better prepared for the demanding workplace and thereby contributes to better outcomes of residential youth care.","PeriodicalId":45491,"journal":{"name":"Residential Treatment for Children & Youth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43530964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1080/0886571X.2023.2241361
David Pålsson, Peter Andersson, Emelie Shanks, Stefan Wiklund
ABSTRACT In this article, we discuss residential staff in Sweden. Here, residential care is part of the municipal child welfare system, which covers services targeting juvenile delinquency as well as other residential care services. Children and young people placed in Swedish residential care have diverse needs, from mainly supportive needs to advanced behavioral problems, and the field consists of open and secure residential care units. There is limited knowledge about the staff working in residential care. This article helps to fill this knowledge gap by giving an overall picture of staff educational attainments, age and gender in Swedish residential care between the years of 2008–2020. To reason about staff qualifications, we use theoretical concepts from sociological theory on professions. Findings show that residential care in Sweden can be analyzed as a pre-professional field, dominated by staff with low levels of education. In addition, we show that the field is dominated by women – even if the proportion of men is higher than in other areas of social work – and that the majority of staff are between 30 and 64 years old. Some differences between open and secure residential care were found, the most notable concerning educational levels and gender.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/0886571X.2023.2209756
D. Roberts, D. Davidson
ABSTRACT The Mulberry Bush, in the UK, has always placed high quality training at the heart of staff development but sixty years into our history we reached a point where high quality training did not meet the government requirement for residential child care staff. This presented the organization with a unique challenge; how to prove outstanding practice meant “Outstanding.” This paper outlines the development of our award-winning Foundation Degree in Therapeutic Work with Children and Young People, exploring the complex relationship between a learning cohort and a working cohort and how the organization managed the tensions and benefits of both. The paper highlights how practice developed, how students gained a deeper understanding of the needs of children and families and how students developed their sense of self-reflection through work-based learning. Using evidence from students, their written work and their colleagues, examples are given of how students have learnt to use theory to underpin their day to day work with traumatized children, making sense of their emotional pain and the impact on the staff team. The paper concludes by considering the wider implications for therapeutic organizations in developing their own training programmes.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1080/0886571X.2023.2209757
A. Mairhofer, E. van Santen
ABSTRACT In human service organizations, staff are a key factor for ensuring quality and success. This is also the case in residential youth care. Staff turnover and shortages thus pose a serious challenge to residential youth care facilities. Consequently, strategies for recruiting and retaining staff are important in residential youth care. The article focuses on how residential youth care facilities in Germany assess their staffing situation and which strategies they employ for recruitment and retention. The data are from a 2019 survey of facilities throughout Germany offering residential care for children and youth. The descriptive analysis of the data shows that in spite of rather low staff turnover, the facilities are confronted with varied recruitment challenges. Furthermore, the data show that the facilities employ a wide range of strategies for recruiting and retaining staff. Both the size of the facility as well as the type of provider affect the staffing situation and the strategies employed for human resource development.
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