Knowledge Utilization in Residential Child and Youth Care Practice Book

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations
1	The Known and the Used in Residential Child and Youth Care Work	3
2	Developmental Foundations of Child and Youth Care Work	25
3	Interpersonal and Group Life in Residential Care: A Competence Centered, Ecological Perspective	49
4	Immediacy in Residential Child and Youth Care: The Fusion of Experience, Self-Consciousness, and Action	65
Pt. 2	Working Life with Children and Youths
5	Providing a Development-Enhancing Environment: The Child and Youth Care Worker as Observer and Interpreter of Behavior	85
6	Promoting Social Competence: Implications of Work with Mentally Retarded Children and Adults in Residential Settings	99
7	From Warehouse to Greenhouse: Play, Work, and the Routines of Daily Living in Groups as the Core of Milieu Treatment	123
8	Normalization for Youth Development in Residential Care: The Role of the Direct Care Worker in Enhancing Vocational Development and Job-Finding Skills	157
9	Working with Families of Children and Youths in Residential Settings	171
10	Students' Response to Residential Schools and Their Staffs: Implications for Program Effectiveness and the Professional Development of the Field	195
Pt. 3	Doing Residential Child and Youth Care Work in an Organizational Setting
11	Teamwork in Residential Care	215
12	The Child and Youth Care Worker and the Organization	237
13	Program Integration in Residential Care: The Residential Center as the Instrument of Care Delivery	255
Pt. 4	Broadening the Scope of Residential Child and Youth Care Work
14	The Child-Care Worker as Ethnographer: Uses of the Anthropological Approach in Residential Child and Youth Care Education and Practice	275
15	Development of Effective Child and Youth Care Workers	291
	Epilogue: A Brief Conceptual Integration	313
	About the Contributors	315
	Indices	319