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Therapeutic approaches to residential child care in Northern Ireland

Film that shows how children's homes in Northern Ireland have introduced training in ‘therapeutic approaches' for their residential child care staff.

The approaches help staff to have a better understanding of how children's experiences affect them, to consider their emotional needs and foster resilience. It focuses on the experience of staff and young people at the Lakewood Secure Unit.

Details
Published: 
2012
Publisher: 
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)