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J. Whittaker, Lisa Holmes, J. D. del Valle, F. Ainsworth, T. Andreassen, J. Anglin, C. Bellonci, D. Berridge, A. Bravo, C. Canali, M. Courtney, Laura Currey, D. Daly, R. Gilligan, H. Grietens, A. Harder, Martha J. Holden, Sigrid James, A. Kendrick, E. Knorth, M. Lausten, J. Lyons, Eduardo Martín, S. McDermid, P. McNamara, Laura Palareti, Susan H. Ramsey, Kari Sisson, Richard W. Small, J. Thoburn, Ronald W. Thompson, A. Zeira

2016.4.2Residential Treatment for Children & Youth

DOI: 10.1080/0886571x.2016.1215755

tlooto Summary

This work is supportive of a much wider effort internationally concerned with the quality of care children receive when, for a variety of reasons, they need to live away from their families.

Abstract

While the focus of this consensus statement and the review volume that preceded it (Whittaker, Del Valle, & Holmes, 2014) is on therapeutic residential care (TRC), a specialized form of group care, we view our work as supportive of a much wider effort internationally concerned with the quality of care children receive when, for a variety of reasons, they need to live away from their families.

Citation format

WHITTAKER, J., et al. Therapeutic residential care for children and youth: A consensus statement of the international work group on therapeutic residential care*. Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, 2016, 33: 106–89.