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The Occupational Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care Workers: Caring and Its Discontents

The Occupational Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care Workers: Caring and Its Discontents

Beker, Jerome
Arieli, Mordecai

Paperback

Child PsychologyPoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0789003066
ISBN13: 9780789003065
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 3 1997
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.45
Language: English

From open and straightforward accounts of residential care workers, The Occupational Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care Workers shows you how care is handled, not how it should be handled. This book introduces you to a social reality, a sometimes very difficult and challenging social reality, as it is viewed by its participants. If you want to know more about what is actually going on in residential care and the discontent that workers frequently experience, this is the book that lays out the facts, the problems, and the nature of residential youth centers.The Occupational Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care Workers broaches the problem of tension between workers and residents and hopes that bringing the problem out into the open will be a first step toward a solution. You learn that the very arrangement of residential care automatically sets up antagonism between the sole group care worker and his/her wards; residents tend to resist the inherently coercive efforts of the worker who tries to bring them through processes of change and socialization. The Occupational Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care Workers will make you think about:

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