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Therapeutic Residential Care: Different Population, Different Purpose, Different Costs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2015

Frank Ainsworth  and
Patricia Hansen
Frank Ainsworth*
Affiliation:
James Cook University–Social Work and Human Services, Twonsville, Australia
Patricia Hansen
Affiliation:
Hansen Legal, Parramatta, NSW, Australia
*
address for correspondence: Dr Frank Ainsworth, Senior Principal Research Fellow (Adjunct), School of Social Work and Human Services, James Cook University, Townsville campus, Queensland 4811, Australia. E-mail: frankainsworth@hotmail.com
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Abstract

At the present time in Australia, there is much discussion about attachment and trauma-informed therapeutic residential care (TRC) programmes. The discussion includes a continuing reference to the high cost of this form of care by comparison to foster family care. This comparison assumes that both services serve the same population which this paper disputes. The emergence of TRC as one option in the continuum of care also raises issues about how a residential care (RC) workforce might be educated and trained for these programmes. This is particularly important given the mental health and behavioural difficulties the population of young people referred to TRC programmes, frequently display.

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Therapeutic residential carepopulationpurposecosts
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Children Australia , Volume 40 , Issue 4: OUT OF HOME CARE-REFLECTING ON THE PAST AND ENVISIONING FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS , December 2015 , pp. 342 - 347
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2015 

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