Research Catalog

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Description

1. xvii, 201 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

1. Designed as a practical guide, it includes many examples of everyday experiences, which can be used as case studies in training. Brings together all areas of residential work, and all levels of involvement in it. At whatever level of involvement with residential care this book facilitates understanding both about face to face work with residents and about the workings and politics of organisations.

Alternative title

1. Residential care

Subject

1. Institutional care > Great Britain
2. Residential Treatment
3. United Kingdom

Contents

1. 1. Scenes from residential work. Struggling to care. Complicated, exhausting work. Arguing with Bertram. Preparing tea. Local politics -- 2. Understanding and managing: making a start. Starting work. Applying self-management. The working use of principle. Organising yourself -- 3. Giving and receiving. Fantasy/Phantasy, the unconscious, transference and counter-transference. Building and using relationships. Building relationships with children. Bedtime. Physical assistance: bathing. Sexuality. Control. The rewards of the job: giving and receiving -- 4. Leading and influencing: creating and using vision. Vision. Management and leadership: a reassessment. Sharing responsibility. Becoming a senior worker -- 5. Creating helpful organisation. It's not so much the building as the way you use it. Inclusion/exclusion. Food and catering. Staff organisation. Supervision. Training and development. Rotas. Routines, rules and habits -- 6. Resisting hindering organisation. Organisation(s). Organisations as systems. The role of the manager. The policy roundabout -- 7. Outside assistance. What is an outsider? The roles of outsiders -- 8. A good place to live? Boundaries are important but broken rules aren't the end of the world: Joe's story. Packed off and forgotten: Theresa's story. If I'm good they're going to keep me; if I'm bad they're going to move me: Sandra's story. I chose to come here; I manage well: Mrs Dunsford's story -- 9. Liberating institutions: a future for residential care. Past, present and future. Exploiting the bandwagon of superficial change -- Appendix 1 The learning basket -- Appendix 2 Change -- Appendix 3 Models, images and cultures of organisations, establishments, units, homes and teams.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-196) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain