Facilitating the Transition from Residential Care into the Foster Care, Families and into Community-Based Social Services. Changing Role of Families and Social Care Staff
Keywords:
Residential child care, foster care, (re)integration in the family of origins, professional-focused care policy, family – focused care system, increasing parentalcompetenciesAbstract
The children and the care staff are central agents of
change in residential care institutions. They have major
contributions to helping children and adolescents negotiate the
transition back into their families of origin, into a foster care
family and the integration in some other specific communitybased
social services.
This article presents: (1) some results of the actual researches
and studies concerning the transition from the centralized
residential care to a decentralized, multifaceted communitybased
social care system; (2) changes in attitude and orientation
of the social care staff and decisional staff that can facilitate the
transition process; (3) expansion of the functions of child care
workers to enable family issues to be addressed on the residential
unit; (4) ways of helping adolescents engage in community
activities while still in residential care; and (5) strategies for
increasing the involvement of child care staff in discharge
planning and implementing.
References
Bettelheim, B. & Sanders, J. - Milieu therapy: The Orthogenic School
model. In J. A. Noshpitz (Ed.), Basic handbook of child psychiatry: Vol. 3.
Therapeutic interventions, New York, Basic Books,1979, pp. 216-230
Redl, F. & Wineman, D. - The aggressive child. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1957
Stone L. A. - Residential treatment. In J. A. Noshpitz (Ed.), Basic handbook
of child psychiatry: Vol. 3. Therapeutic interventions New York: Basic
Books,1979, pp. 231-262
Trieschman, A. E., Whittaker, J. K., & Brendtro, L. K. - The other 23 hours.
Chicago, Aldine Publishing Company, 1969
Maier, H. - The child care worker, in J. K. Whittaker & A. E. Trieschman (Eds.),
Children away from home:A sourcebook of residential treatment, 1972,pp.267
Mayer, M. F. - The parental figures in residential treatment. Social Service
Review, 24, 1960, pp. 273-285.
Redl, F. & Wineman, D. - The aggressive child. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1957
Ainsworth, F. & Fulcher, L.C. - The culture of group care for children. In F.
Ainsworth and L. C. Fulcher (Eds.), Group care practice with children, London,
Tavistock, 1985, pp. 48-71
Gwynn, C., Meyer, R., & Schaefer, C. - The influence of the peer culture in residential
treatment. In C. E. Schaefer & Swanson, A. J. (Eds.), Children in residential
care: Critical issues in treatment, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988, pp. 104-
[ 10] After Schneewind, K. A. Sozialisation in der Familie in Hurrelmann, K.,
Grundmann, M., Walper (Hrsg.) – Handbuch Sozialisationsforschung, Weinheim
und Basel, Beltz Verlag,1980, p. 259
Barton, S. J. - Family-centered care when abuse or neglect is suspected. Journal
of the Society of Pediatric Nurses, 5, 96, 2000 and Bauchner, H., Waring, C., & Vinci,
R. - Parental presence during procedures in an emergency room: Results from 50
observations . Pediatrics, 87, 1991, pp.544-548.
DeGangi, G. A., Wietlisbach, S., Poisson, S., Stein, E., & Royeen, C. - The
impact of culture and socioeconomic status on family-professional collaboration:
Challenges and solutions in Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 14, 1994,
pp. 503-520.
[ 13] Dempsey, I., & Dunst, C. - Help giving styles and parent empowerment in
families with a young child with a disability. Journal of Intellectual and
Developmental Disability, 29, 2004, pp.40-52.
[ 14 ] Walker, J. S., Koroloff, N., & Schutte, K. - Implementing high quality
collaborative individualized service/support planning: Necessary conditions. Portland:
Portland State University, Research and Training Center on Family Support and
Children’s Mental Health, 2003
Dragoi, C., - Protecţia socialăde tip rezidenţial şi plasamentul familial în Europa.
Macro-tendinţe. în Protecţia socialăa copilului - „Sisteme şi metode de protecţie
socialăîn Europaâ€, FICE Romănia, nr. 14-15, 2003, p. 12 - 13
