Cahill, Orla and Holt, Stephanie and Kirwan, Gloria
(2016)
Keyworking in residential child care: Lessons from research.
Children and Youth Services Review, 65.
pp. 216-223.
ISSN 0190-7409
Abstract
Developing quality relationships is recognised as an active ingredient for effective interventionswith young people
in care. Essentially, care staff has the opportunity and capacity to positively influence the young person's experiences
in care, through the positive relationships they form. This paper presents selectively on the findings of
two separate but related qualitative Irish studies exploring relationship-based approaches in residential child
care practice, fromthe perspectives of both residential child careworkers and young care leavers. Thirty-two professionals
and four care leavers participated in either focus group or individual interviews. The findings are integrated
in this paper with the wider literature on young people leaving care, with the aim of identifying core
knowledge that is needed by service providerswho are taskedwith the support of young peoplemaking the transition
out of care and towards independent living. In this paper we attempt to identify the knowledge base on
relationship-building which is needed by care staff in order to carry out their role. It is argued that an explicit
knowledge base is overdue now that the complex needs of young people in care are increasingly visible through
advances in research and more recently the emerging literature concerning the personal testimonies of care
graduates.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Residential care;
Relationship based practice;
Keyworking;
Outcomes; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Applied Social Studies |
| Item ID: |
11180 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.04.014 |
| Depositing User: |
Gloria Kirwan
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| Date Deposited: |
09 Oct 2019 10:56 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Children and Youth Services Review |
| Publisher: |
Elsevier |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| URI: |
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| Use Licence: |
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