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Residential Family Treatment: A creative alternative in child protection work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

C. Schulz ,
S. Wilson ,
M. Newton ,
P. Van Epenhuysen  and
B. Holzworth
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Abstract

The maintenance of the physical and emotional safety of children about to be returned to their families following serious abuse is a complex and significant problem. This paper describes a treatment offered to such families which makes use of a residential setting, and which involved intensive work over the period of a week. This approach was cost effective, allowed for greater creativity by child protection workers, and impacted significantly on the lives of the families. This paper offers a philosophical as well as practical framework for treating at risk families in which a child is about to be returned.

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Children Australia , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , 1991 , pp. 3 - 9
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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