This work explores the challenges and dilemmas - long-standing and newly emerging - which faced residential establishments for children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties during 1990 to 1995, and reflects on developments since then. The author seeks to break new ground in exploring the perspectives of professionals providing residential services and in its strong multidisciplinary base, with research data drawn from providers based in health, education and care establishments. This approach also allows analysis of the complex dynamics which exist between these different groups of professionals, and between purchasers and providers of children's services. Significant changes in the residential sector are discussed and the book concludes that shortages in community-based resources are adversely affecting these specialist establishments in a wide variety of ways.
- ISBN10 0754611205
- ISBN13 9780754611202
- Publish Date 28 October 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 July 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English