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'Hard to know what to do' : how residential workers experience the mental health needs of young people

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: This paper aimed to describe the experiences and perspectives of residential child care practitioners in dealing with the mental health difficulties of the children for whom they are responsible and to compare their experience with that of other professionals. it draws on the findings of the Scottish Needs Assessment Programme (SNAP) which surveyed a wide range of professionals who worked regularly with young people but whose main focus of work was not mental health. This article focuses on the findings from questionnaires sent out to 289 residential workers in Scotland. Replies were received from 104 staff, giving a 36 percent response rate. Residential workers were asked about their most recent experience of working with a child or young person with mental health, emotional or behavioural problems, the most worrying case they had worked with in the last three years and the case that had given them the most satisfaction in the same timescale.

Source: Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde)

DOI: 10.17868/strath.00038255

Authors: Furnivall, Judith, Wilson, Philip, Barbour, Rosaline S., Connelly, Graham, Bryce, Graham, Phin, Louise

Institution: Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland

Language: English

Topic: Child Welfare and Adoption

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W141571441