Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction, Hans Göran Eriksson. Challenges, Innovations and Education: Elements in Anti-Oppressive Practice: Anti-oppressive practice, why bother?, Jane Prior; Changing the horizon: client feedback as a driving force behind innovations in residential child and youth care, Erik J. Knorth, John P.M. Meijers, Arianne Brouwer, Eek Jansen and Hans Du Prie; The development of a residential unit working with sexually aggressive young men, Andrew Kendrick, Richard Mitchell and Mark Smith; Family life educator training as the key to effective family development work, Rosa Heim. Foster Care: Preparing For, Practising and Living in the Midst of: Preparing children for foster care: exploring the role and value of a preparatory residential placement, Cliona Murphy; Nadomak Sunca: alternative foster care in Croatia, Odilia van Manen-Rojnic; Living with foster siblings - what impact has fostering on the biological children of foster carers?, Ingrid Höier and Monica Nordenfors. You Get It or You Do Not: Mainstreaming in Education, Ethnic Origin and Competency Level: Including youngsters from residential care in mainstream schools - is it possible?, Arne Tveit and Björn Arnesen; Anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice: working with ethnic minority children in foster and residential care, Toyin Okitikpi; Children's needs for self-expressive play (with the 'forgotten group' as a special case), presented as an important issue for residential care, Brian Ashley. Research, a Useful Tool in Residential and Foster Care: Discovering what makes a 'well-enough' functioning residential group care setting for children and youth: constructing a theoretical framework and responding to critiques of grounded theory method, James P. Anglin; An evaluation of abused children's behaviour following intervention: a follow-up study in Greece, Helen Agathonos-Georgopoulou, Kevin D. Browne and Jasmin Sarafidou; The rights and wrongs of ethnographic research in a youth residential setting, Tarja Pösö; Index.
