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Adams, Mark |
1995 |
From chaos to confidence: a manager’s reflective practice in a National Health Service setting |
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Alliston, Suzanne |
1998 |
Love and hate in the mother child relationship: understanding the nature of maternal ambivalence |
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Baker, Barney |
1998 |
Cutting down the scale: a study of the therapeutic ideals within a small residential children’s home |
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Benjamin, Alison |
2000 |
What are the essential ingredients to enable foster carers to create and sustain a successful adolescent placement? |
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Best, Deborah |
1995 |
Not here on holiday: an exploratory study of refugee children and their families in Reading |
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Blogg, Rosie |
2006 |
'You don't have to be sad to work here but it helps.' The personal journey of the worker and its significance for therapeutic practice missing |
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Brotherston, Andrea J |
2002 |
What did you learn in school today? A reflective account based on groupwork in one mainstream school |
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Brown, Christopher |
1993 |
Sailing Alone: the supervision needs of unit managers/officers-in-charge of residential homes for children |
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Burnett, Angus |
2004 |
A Foreign Correspondent: Projection and Transference Issues and the New Leader |
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Cammiss, Carol |
2004 |
Unconscious processes in staff teams: The process of splitting and projection in a residential children's home |
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Campbell, Iain |
2000 |
Creating stability in a continual crisis: how clear leadership and management is needed to create a holding environment in a local authority emergency children’s home. |
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Carlin, Gary |
2006 |
In the context of therapeutic child care should men look after children who have been sexually abused?
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Cox, Richard |
1998 |
Who is ‘good enough? Can workers fulfill a parenting role? |
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Dacre, Viv |
1996 |
A study of practice within family centre settings by the means of a literature search |
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Darien, Trudy |
2000 |
Keywork or team work? Building lives in a therapeutic community |
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Day, Carol |
2000 |
A study of groupwork within a residential setting |
| Diamond, John | 1993 | "The Use of Supervision and Consultation to Develop a 'Reflective' Practice with an Emotionally Disturbed Client Group in Group Care Organizations" |
| Easterbrook, Lorraine | 2006 | Does the SACCS Assessment Process contribute to the 'Recovery' of Traumatised Children in the area of Attachment? |
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Evans, Don |
2002 |
What are the barriers to the promotion of positive relationships between residents and their families in the setting of a therapeutic community for children? |
| Fernyhough, Dave | 2006 | A Winnicottian Approach to the Management of Challenging Behaviours in Schools: How applicable are the theories of "Holding" and the "Facilitating Environment" to the management of extreme and challenging behaviour in a large secondary school? |
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Findlay, Jude |
2006 |
The Chrysalis. What do supervising social workers need to understand about therapeutic approaches to enable 'good enough' support to foster carers, and how can these approaches be integrated within the role of worker? |
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Fudge, Georgina |
2002 |
The Pad - softening the education muscle: reflections on setting up a therapeutic day resource in a school for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties |
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Fuller, Adele |
1997 |
Don’t ask me to make decisions!’ Can a more directive role in play therapy be more appropriate in helping children who have been sexually abused? |
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Gittens, Joycelyn |
2006 |
Therapeutic child care in the fostering situation. How far can therapeutic approaches be integrated into the role of a supervising social worker working within an independent fostering agency? a personal account |
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Glackin, Eleanor Diane |
2007 |
Still waters run deep. A reflective account of the introduction of therapeutic processes, within an established local authority residential setting - a manager’s perspective. missing |
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Goodman, Sue |
1998 |
Bridges to Reality |
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Goodspeed, A.D. |
2004 |
When the Cat's Not Away: An examination of the role and function of the Deputy Team Leaders in a Residential Special School |
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Grady, Pete |
2000 |
Waiting for Miracles to Happen? A consideration of the use of a short term model of social work in a long term residential unit. |
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Gwatidzo, Nyasha |
1997 |
Looking at issues of race in therapeutic work: a case study in therapeutic work with a mixed parentage 11-year-old boy |
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Hamil, Debbie |
2007 |
What leads residential staff who work in therapeutic childcare settings to choose to leave and how might this knowledge improve staff retention? missing |
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Hill, Elizabeth |
2004-05 |
How can a Statutory Assessment form the basis of therapeutic work? |
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Hopper, Linda |
1993 |
Communication between mothers and their foetuses |
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Houghton, Annie |
2004-05 |
If the therapeutic task is to enable young people to form positive relationships in the future how can this be achieved if their only role modelling is that of a space boundary? |
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Hudgell, Elaine |
2004 |
Staff Supervision in a Residential Special School: 'How can staff supervision help care workers and teachers understand and meet the emotional needs of vulnerable young people?' |
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Jolly, Denise |
1998 |
The residential task of maintaining familial links for children with autism |
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Keaveney, Clare |
2000 |
An Reflective Examination of Ending Work Therapeutic Work with Children |
| Keenan, Karol A. | 2006 | Food Glorious Food? An exploration of the issues of anxiety and its containment for children and adults surrounding food and mealtimes in a residential therapeutic setting |
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Langfeld, Jeanette |
2000 |
The development of therapeutic treatment in a small children’s home: reflections of a manager |
Ledger, Denise
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2000 | A Family Centre approach to Early Therapeutic Intervention for Young Children and their Families |
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Lewis, Rhoda |
1998 |
Making Sense - The Lived Experience [of working in residential child care] |
| Lucas, Margarete | 1993 | Understanding and Working with the Symbolic Communications of an Eight-Year-Old Girl in a Residential Setting: A Case Study |
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Lund, Stephen |
1998 |
On becoming a leader: and the dynamics of the group, in a residential child care setting |
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Matthews, Tony |
2006 |
'Against the Grain'. How far can a therapeutic community approach be developed as a specialised unit provision of, and be successfully integrated within, an organisation which overall in its other units and in its educational provision, adopts predominantly behavioural techniques in its work with troubled young people? |
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McNally, Dympna |
2004 |
'A really long day': A brief study combining motherhood and working with children |
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McRae, Jenni |
2000 |
How can we hold the carers who hold the children, to prevent foster placement breakdowns? |
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Mead, Debbie |
2002 |
Feeling their way through chaos: how through structured and informal support a fieldworker can be enabled to find a way to promote more therapeutic practice within the fieldwork setting |
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Musgrave, Sarah |
1993 |
Working towards the partnership philosophy with families in an under elevens children’s resource centre, by means of an evaluation of the centre from the families’ perspective |
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Newton, Sharon |
2000 |
Touch in a climate of unease: The importance of touch in residential child care |
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Nicholl, Louise |
2004 |
Riding the Waves of Emotion in a Sea of Change: A reflective enquiry into the importance of emotions in processing change within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service |
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Oliver, Jo |
1998 |
Race, culture and identity, and care planning |
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Parry, Pia |
2004 |
Moving on, Reflections on a Journey…A Reflective Study based on the move that some children make from one type of local authority placement to another |
| Peacock, Simon | 1997 | Holding On: An Exploration of the Relevance of 'Holding' and 'Containment' to Field Social Work with Children |
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Peel, Chris |
1998 |
Getting Better: Towards a theoretical understanding of Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy |
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Pettipher, Janet |
1998 |
Preventing the perpetuation of emotional damage into the next generation missing |
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Raj, Shamin |
2002 |
A student’s journey to reflective learning and practice in therapeutic child care |
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Rivers, John |
2004 |
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Roach, Joanna |
2002 |
Working With the Families of Young People in Residential Care |
Roberts, Dave |
2002 | |
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Rowe, Melissa |
1998 |
Should male residential social workers be employed in residential homes for adolescent young women? |
| Sanders, Jenny | 2006 | |
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Sands, Katrina |
2006 |
Home from Home: A Reflective Exploration of some unconscious aspects of registered child minding - How can we better understand the therapeutic potential of the work of child minders? |
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Scotland, Dennis |
1998 |
What is the primary task of emergency accommodation homes: a case study |
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Shenton, Maria |
1996 |
After the charisma: a case study in the experience of establishing a training programme in Albania for child care workers |
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Stacey, Paula |
2002 |
How can you helpfully use relationships in social work with children and their families? |
| Steele, Marc | 2007 | 'Angels with dirty faces’: A reflective study of the journey of a residential care worker’s emotional and practical development, in order to aid the development of therapeutic ethos in a private care provision. |
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Taylor, Maria |
2004-05 |
Surviving the Task. How can the process of staff selection be further developed to identify people who can become effective in the work of therapeutic residential child care? |
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Tomlinson, Patrick |
1996 |
The holding environment and the maternal ideal: a critique of Winnicott |
| Turberville, John W. | 2006 | If Only You Would Exclude ‘Ben’ We Would Be Able To Work With The Others Just Fine! A Case Study of the ‘Excludable Child’ in a Residential Special School |
| Ulloa, Maria L. | 2006 | |
| Vale, Janet | 1997 | How Family Centres Evaluate their Practice: A study of evaluation methodologies and how they are used in family centre evaluation |
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Walmsley, Gill |
2002 |
Addressing the Empty Chair: Reflections on fathers' attendance at family appointments in a child mental health setting |
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Wheeler, Ros |
1994 |
What are the feelings aroused in substitute carers of sexually abused young people, and the implications of these feelings for practice. |
| Wightwick, Sue | 2006 | |
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Williams, Nin |
2000 |
An exploration of the dynamics of youth justice Family Group Conferences |
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Woodhead, Judith |
1995 |
Residential living and individual development: a case study of provision for children and young people who have a learning disability |
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Woods, Sally |
2000 |
Towards an understanding of the developing relationship between a newly placed adoptive child and his adoptive parents: a case study |
| Bennett, Michael | 2003 | Managing to be a Clincially Effective Therapeutic Community | MBA (Health Executive) |
| Burns, Lisa | 2008 | Elements for Holistic Sanctuary Design Based on the Expressed Needs of Traumatized and At-Risk Adolescents | PhD, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco |
| Bush, Bernard J., S.J. | 1985 | A Systems Enquiry for Self-Renewal of a Therapeutic Community: The House of Affirmation | PhD, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco |
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Cameron, Stephen E. |
1996 |
Fostering Good Relations: the impact issues for and support needs of foster carers' own children |
MA in Advanced Social Work Studies, University of Reading |
| Cardone, Tera E. | 2002 | The Effectiveness of a Modified Therapeutic Community Model in Treating Dual-Diagnosed Patients in an Outpatient Day Treatment Setting | PsychD. California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco Bay Campus, Alliant International University |
| Carrick, Emily | 2009 | Non-Directive Play Therapy with Children and Young People in Residential Care: A Qualitative Study of Play Therapists’ Experiences. | MA Non-Directive Play Therapy, University of York |
| Chu, Jacqueline | 1998 | Social and Environmental Restoration Through Therapeutic Community Gardens | MSc, Faculty of the Department of Environmental Studies, San Jose State University |
| Clark, David H. | 1967 | "Psychiatric Halfway House" | MD, Edinburgh University |
| Johnson, Robin | 1981 | In Search of the Enabling Environment "A comparative study of therapeutic community models and structures, identifying some underlying modalities or dimensions of interaction." |
West London Institute of Higher Education (W.L.I.H.E.) Diploma in Applied Social Studies |
| Shields, Polly | 2007 | Finding a place for Forest School (1929-1940) in the history and future of education | |
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Smith, Martin |
1995 |
The Face of the Gorgon: an investigation into coping strategies of social workers facing extreme stress |
MA in Advanced Social Work Studies, University of Reading |
| Strober, Elizabeth Anne | 2001 | "Canaries in a Coal Mine": Conceptualizations and Treatment of Mentl Illness in a Therapeutic Community for the Mentally Ill | PhD, Anthropology, University of Washington |
| Vandevelde, Stijn | 1999 | Maxwell Jones and his Work in the Therapeutic Community |
Master in Educational Sciences (Orthopedagogics), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium trans. Diuewke Tweinberrow |
| Wiley, Juniper | 1988 | Precarious Haven: An Ethnography of a Holistic Therapeutic Community for Schizophrenics | PhD, Sociology, University of California, San Diego |
| Young, Rudy | 1998 | Critical issues Affecting the Therapeutic Community and Potential Solutions to Restore the Therapeutic Community | Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Douglas Community College, British Columbia |
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