THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHILD CARE WORKER IN RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT

The main purpose of this paper is to focus attention on the challenge facing residential treatment centers to make more effective use of child care workers. Although the central importance of the child care worker in the therapeutic environment has been acknowledged, seemingly contradictory views ha...

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Published in:American journal of orthopsychiatry 1972-07, Vol.42 (4), p.719-722
Main Authors: Portnoy, Sanford M., Biller, Henry B., Davids, Anthony
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child
Child Behavior
Child Care
Child Care Workers
Child Psychiatry
Human
Humans
Imitative Behavior
Individual Psychotherapy
Mental Disorders - therapy
Residential Care Institutions
Residential Treatment
Therapeutic Environment
Workforce
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Summary:The main purpose of this paper is to focus attention on the challenge facing residential treatment centers to make more effective use of child care workers. Although the central importance of the child care worker in the therapeutic environment has been acknowledged, seemingly contradictory views have often been presented. In view of these discrepancies it seems important to look more carefully at our system of residential treatment. The potential influence of child care workers as primary therapeutic agents may be considered in terms of the process of imitation. Many child care workers lack formal or sufficient training and there is an absence of systematic observation or recording of their own behaviors. Such factors make it difficult to specify what behaviors are being presented to the children for imitation. The entire system of residential treatment as it known, it must be more clearly evaluated and defined. By focusing on individual therapy sessions as the key to treatment, it seems likely that the greatest potential effects of twenty-four hour residential care will continue to be overlooked. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
ISSN:0002-9432
1939-0025
DOI:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1972.tb02538.x