Compulsive Behavior, Psychology & Counseling, Psychiatry, Child Psychology, Counseling, Psychotherapy, Psychopathology 

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

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.

The book reaches beyond usual boundaries of psychiatry to incorporate lessons related fields, such as psychology, sociology, social welfare, philosophy , political economic theory and civil rights. From Jane Aadams and the settlement House movement to Marin Luther King Jr. and Gilles Deleuze, this book identifies the less well-known and less visible dimensions of recovery concept and movement that underlie concrete clinical practice.


Chapters Include:
Introduction
From Traitement Moral to Moral Treatment
Reciprocity in Community based care
The Everyday and Interpersonal Context of Recovery
Closing the Hospital
The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship
Agency as the Basis for Transformation
Conclusion