Residential youth care
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Professional support in pediatric and rehabilitation care environments has been recommended as a means to build youth competence in life skills during their transition to adulthood. Life skills are the essential psychosocial competencies and interpersonal skills needed to manage one’s life.
12p virome2711 13-01-2020 15 2 Download
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Evaluating youth welfare services is vital, both because of the considerable influence they have on the development of children and adolescents, as well as owing to the extensive financial costs involved, especially for child residential care.
11p vilisbon2711 07-01-2020 6 1 Download
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Older youth in out-of-home care often live in restrictive settings and face psychiatric issues without sufficient family support. This paper reports on the development and piloting of a manualized treatment foster care program designed to step down older youth with high psychiatric needs from residential programs to treatment foster care homes.
13p vilisbon2711 07-01-2020 15 2 Download
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Studies show that adolescents living in residential youth care (RYC) institutions experience more mental health problems than others. This paper studies how well teachers and primary contacts in RYC institutions recognize adolescents’ mental health problems as classified by The Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment diagnostic interviews (CAPA).
11p vimoskva2711 30-12-2019 8 0 Download