Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Tackling the difficult issues facing those who work with traumatized and sometimes dangerous young people and their families, this new volume shows how professionals can bring about positive change and growth through the creation of "holding" and healing therapeutic environments. This collection of papers written by established and respected experts with extensive practice and research experience builds a powerful picture of the theory and practice of therapeutic community work with young people. A wide variety of therapeutic community approaches is considered alongside an analysis of the implications of this model for mainstream residential practice. Social work, health care and education professionals will find the text invaluable for its presentation of a well-founded analysis of their work with these most damaged and desperate children and young people.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. 8)
• 1 Introduction (p. 9)
• Part I Ideas and Origins
• Introduction (p. 18)
• 2 The Core Framework (p. 21)
• 3 The Roots of the Work: Definitions, Origins and Influences (p. 43)
• 4 The Roots of Mental Health: Emotional Development and the Caring Environment (p. 65)
• 5 Group Thinking (p. 82)
• 6 The Contribution of Systemic Thinking and Practice (p. 99)
• Part II Practice
• Introduction: 'Where's the therapy?' (p. 116)
• 7 Using Everyday Life: Opportunity Led Work (p. 119)
• 8 The Meaning of Good Experience (p. 133)
• 9 Relationships and the Therapeutic Setting (p. 148)
• 10 Structured Work: The Space to Think (p. 161)
• 11 Developing the Quality of Teaching and Learning in a Therapeutic School (p. 174)
• 12 Keeping Families in Mind (p. 187)
• Part III Management and Development
• Introduction (p. 202)
• 13 Leadership in a Therapeutic Environment: 'What a Long Strange Trip it is' (p. 205)
• 14 Consultation and Supervision (p. 220)
• 15 Staff Development and Training (p. 233)
• 16 The Challenge of Research (p. 244)
• Part IV Applications and the Future
• Introduction (p. 256)
• 17 Applying the Therapeutic Community Model in Other Settings (p. 259)
• 18 Therapeutic Childcare and the Local Authority (p. 277)
• 19 Developing Community Groupwork in a Secure Setting (p. 290)
• Conclusion
• 20 Review, Reflection and Reading (p. 305)
• Key Professional Organisations in the United Kingdom (p. 309)
• Editor and Contributor Biographies (p. 311)
• References (p. 314)
• Subject Index (p. 326)
• Author Index (p. 335)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Adrian Ward is a senior lecturer in Social Work at the University of East Anglia and an experienced practitioner, teacher and writer. He is Editor of the journal Therapeutic Communities, and founded the MA in Therapeutic Child Care at the University of Reading. Kajetan Kasinski is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and a family therapist. He currently works at the Northgate Clinic and as a visiting teacher at the Tavistock Clinic. Jane Pooley is an organisational consultant and family psychotherapist at the Tavistock Consultancy Service and in private practice. She has worked as Director of the Charterhouse Group. She has worked for many years as a clinician and manager in health and social care settings. Alan Worthington is a professional consultant of the Peper Harow Foundation. He is an experienced teacher, practitioner and manager. From 1985-1994 he was the first Director of Thornby Hall, a therapeutic community and special school for children and adolescents in Northamptonshire.