• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Pain, Normality, and the Struggle for Congruence: Reinterpreting Residential Care for Children and Youth

Pain, Normality, and the Struggle for Congruence: Reinterpreting Residential Care for Children and Youth

Paperback

General ParentingPoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0789021412
ISBN13: 9780789021410
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 28 2003
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
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 day--responding 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.

Also in

Social Movements