Residential Treatment: A Cooperative, Competency-Based Approach to Therapy and Program Design

Proposing a framework for residential treatment based on the principle of solution-focused therapy, this book sees the process as a co-operative one involving clients, parents and staff, with the aim of helping children and adolescents, and their families, develop new views of themselves as competent. A central rites of passage metaphor suggests that placement is a period of transition, when children can experiment with new ways of behavior.

Focuses on transition, growth, & experimentation with new behavior, dealing with violent behavior, ritual, etc.

With humor and compassion, Durrant shows how this competence framework can make everyone—from kids and parents to therapists and staff—a winner.

Michael Durrant, a psychologist and therapist, is Director of the Eastwood Family Therapy Centre in Sydney, Australia.