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2007, en, English, Thesis edition: Looking for good practice and optimal services for youth facing homelessness with complex care needs and high risk or challenging behaviour / submitted by Lloyd Owen. Owen, Lloyd.

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Physical Description
  • thesis
  • vii , 220 p. ; 30 cm.
Published
  • 2007.
Language
  • en
  • English

Edition details

Title
  • Looking for good practice and optimal services for youth facing homelessness with complex care needs and high risk or challenging behaviour /​ submitted by Lloyd Owen.
Author
  • Owen, Lloyd.
Other Authors
  • La Trobe University. Theses. School of Social Work and Social Policy.
Other Contributors
  • La Trobe University.
Published
  • 2007.
Physical Description
  • thesis
  • vii , 220 p. ; 30 cm.
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Summary
  • This study employed qualitative research methodology informed by the grounded theory tradition to explore good practice and optimal services for young people presenting with complex care needs associated with challenging or high risk behaviour. Indepth interviews were conducted in three waves of data collection and analysis with fourteen experienced practitioners whose careers have included sustained periods of work with this group in a number of selected Victorian service systems. The principal vantage point was the interface between the supported accommodation and assistance programs for homeless young people, statutory child protection and care, placement and support programs for young people at risk and juvenile justice programs for young offenders. The nature of the problem necessarily included some consideration of mental health and services dealing with substance abuse. The findings propose a view of good practice giving emphasis to the accessible and assertive presence of a responsible adult to "be there" fostering relationships and skilled purposive intervention. Intervention should be planned, holistic, sensitive and responsive to particular needs. It provides active unconditional care. It attends to attachment and trauma concerns and works with short run goals and a long term perspective. Intervention is sustained until constructive disengagement can occur. The complexity and challenge in the task of helping hurt youth warrants the support, strength and guidance of a multi-skilled team. Ideally the team will be described using normative terms. Optimal services are timely, congruent, seamless and robust in capacity to nurture, establish boundaries and meet developmental and therapeutic requirements. They should be connected to a community and there for as long as it takes, with ready access to suitable accommodation, purchasing power and flexibility of operation. To the greatest extent possible solutions are generated in the place where help is sought. Voluntary service commitment lasts till personal capacity and natural networks take over.
Notes
  • Research.
  • "A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [to the] School of Social work and Social Policy, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora".
  • Thesis (Ph.D.) -- La Trobe University, 2007.
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-220)
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Language
  • en
  • English
Dewey Number
  • 362.7086942
Identifier
  • latrobe:19721
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