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Pain, Normality, and the Struggle for Congruence: Reinterpreting Residential Care for Children and Youth presents the results of a 14-month study of 10 staffed group homes in British Columbia. The book uses grounded theory to construct a theoretical model that speaks to the primary challenge care workers face each dayresponding to pain and pain-based behavior in residents. It combines participant observations, transcribed interviews, and document analysis to develop a core theme of congruence, several major psychosocial processes, and 11 interactional dynamics identified as being fundamental to group home life. The study brings to light several neglected aspects of residential care and proposes new directions in policy development, education, practice, and research to create an integrated and accessible framework for understanding group home life for youths.
Pain, Normality, and the Struggle for Congruence: Rei
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Historical and Contemporary Issues in Residential Care for Children and Youth
- Chapter 2. The Staffed Group Home Study: Research Method and Implementation
- Chapter 3. A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Group Home Life and Work
- Chapter 4. Congruence in Service of the Children’s Best Interests: The Central Theme of Group Home Life and Work
- Chapter 5. Creating an Extrafamilial Living Environment: The Overall Task of a Group Home
- Chapter 6. Responding to Pain and Pain-Based Behaviour: The Major Challenge for Staff
- Chapter 7. Developing a Sense of Normality: The Primary Goal for Residents
- Chapter 8. Through the Lens of the Theoretical Framework: A Review of Selected Residential Child and Youth Care Literature
- Chapter 9. Implications for New Directions in Child and Youth Care Policy Development, Education, Practice, and Research
- References
- Index
