Contributors
(Adjunct), James Cook University, School of Social Work and Human Services
Townsville, Queensland, Australia
James P. Anglin , Ph.D. , Professor Emeritus,
University of Victoria, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria
Victoria B.C., Canada.
Howard Bath, Ph.D. Former inaugural Children’s
Commissioner in Australia’s Northern Territory (2008-2015)
and Consultant, Allambi Care, Charlestown, NSW, Australia.
Christopher Bellonci, M.D, Vice President for Policy & Practice
and Chief Medical Officer, Judge Baker Childrens Center,
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA , USA.
David Berridge, Ph.D., D.Litt, O.B.E, Emeritus Professor,
School for Policy Studies, Children and Families Research
Centre, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Dana Borzese, Executive Director of Doncel Civil Association
for Children’s and Young People’s Rights, Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Amaia Bravo , Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Department
of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Spain.
Eduardo Martin Cabrera, PhD. Senior Lecturer,
Department of Developmental and Educational
Psychology , University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
Cinzia Canali, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Fondazione Zancan,
Padova, IT and President, International Association of
iaOBERfcs, Padova, IT.
Dan Daly, Ph.D. Youth Care Director Emeritus,
Boys Town, Nebraska, USA.
Maria A. Barbosa Ducharne , Ph.D. Assistant Professor,
Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University
of Porto, Portugal.
Laura Fermenti, Ph.D., Professor of Social and General
Pedagogy, Milano Bicocca University, IT.
Laura García-Alba. Ph.D., Assistant Researcher.
Department of Psychology , University of Oviedo,
Spain.
Robbie Gilligan
Professor of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College,
Dublin, Ireland.
Emmanuel Grupper, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Head of the
Child and Youth Care Studies Director of Education and Social
Studies in the Campus of Ono Academic College in the city of
Haifa, Israel.
Annemiek T. Harder, Ph.D. Endowed Professor
School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University,
Rotterdam, NL.
Martha Holden, Project Director, Residential Child Care
Project, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational
Research, Cornell University, New York, USA
Lisa Holmes, Ph.D.
Professor Applied Social Science
School of Education and Social Work
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Mariana Incarnato, Founding Director and Former Executive
Director, Doncel Civil Association for Children’s and Young
People’s Rights, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sigrid James, Ph.D.
Professor of Theory and Methods of Social Work, University of
Kassel, Department of Social Work and Social Welfare, Kassel,
Germany.
Dan Johnson, Clinical Director, Kibble Education and Care
Centre, Paisley, Scotland
Helene Join-Lambert, Ph.D., University of Paris X,
Nanterre, France.
Juri Kilian, Ph.D. (cand) University of Kassel, Department
of Social Work, Germany.
Erik Knorth, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Social
and Behavioural Sciences, University of Groningen, NL.
Mette Lausten, Ph.D. , Senior Researcher, SFI – Danish
Center for Social Science Research, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bethany R. Lee, Ph.D., Professor, School of Social Work,
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Mónica López López, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the Faculty
of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen,
the Netherlands.
Gerald P. Mallon, Ph.D., Professor and Executive Director of the
National Resource Center for Family-centered Practice and
Permanency Planning at the Hunter College School of Social
Work in New York City, USA.
Patricia McNamara, Ph.D.,Senior Fellow, (Hon), Department of
Social Work, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Janice Nicholson,
North Yorkshire Council, UK.
Laura Palareti, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Social Psychology,
Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna, IT.
Alessandra Rigamonte, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Researcher in
Social Pedagogy, Milano Bicocca University, IT.
Marie Saint-Girons, BSc, MSW,
Research Associate, Centre for Research on Children and
Families, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Deborah E. Sellers, Director of Research,
Residential Child Care Project,
Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational
Research, Cornell University, New York, USA.
Elliott G. Smith, Statistician and Researcher
Residential Child Care Project,
Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational
Research, Cornell University, New York., USA.
Joana Soares, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences
University of Porto, Portugal
Laura Steckley, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Social Work and
Social Policy, University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
Millie Sweeney, M.S., Deputy Director, Family-Run Executive
Director Leadership Association (FREDLA), Columbia,
MD, USA.
June Thoburn, C.B.E., Litt D., M.S.W., Emeritus Professor of
Social Work and founding member, Centre for Research on
Children and Families, University of East Anglia (UEA),
Norwich, England.
Ron Thompson, Ph.D., Vice President and Director, National
Research Institute for Child and Family Studies(Ret)
Boys Town, Nebraska, USA.
Bernadette Tillard, Ph.D., Professor, Faculty of Economic
and Social Sciences, University of Lille, France.
Eeva Timonen-Kallio, Ph.D. Principal Lecturer, Faculty of
Health and Well Being, Turku University of Applied Sciences,
Turku, Finland.
Nico Trocme, Ph.D., Philip Fisher Chair in Social Work and
Director, School of Social Work, McGill University, Montreal,
QC, Canada.
Jorge Fernandez del Valle, Ph.D.
Full professor of Psychosocial Intervention, Department of
Psychology, University of Oviedo, Spain
Shelley Wall, MSW, Chair, National Therapeutic Residential
Care Alliance (NTRCA), Australia.
Harriet Ward, CBE
Emeritus Professor of Child and Family Research,
Loughborough University and Honorary Research Fellow,
Rees Centre, Oxford University.
James K. Whittaker, Ph.D.
Charles O. Cressey Endowed Professor Emeritus, School of
Social Work, The University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Leo Wieldraaijer-Vincent, Director of Cornerstones Youth Care,
the Netherlands.
Anat Zeira, Ph.D. Professor, School of Social Work & Social
Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction
CHAPTER 1. Residential Care for Children and Youth in Cross-National Perspective
James K. Whittaker, Lisa Holmes, Jorge F. del Valle and Sigrid James
CHAPTER 2. Meeting the Challenge of Assembling Cross-National Data in Residential Care for Children and Youth
June Thoburn
CHAPTER 3. A Cross-National Comparison of Residential Care – Conceptual and Methodological Foundations
Sigrid James
Part 2. Anglo-American Exemplars
CHAPTER 4. Residential Care for Children and Youth in England
Lisa Holmes, David Berridge, and June Thoburn
CHAPTER 5. The Scottish Experience with Residential Care for Children and Youth
Dan Johnson and Laura Steckley
CHAPTER 6. Residential Care for Children and Youth in Canada: Making Sense of the Mosaic
James P. Anglin , Marie Saint-Girons and Nico Trocme
CHAPTER 7. Residential Care for Children and Youth in the U.S.
Bethany R. Lee and Christopher Bellonci
CHAPTER 8. The Declining Significance of Residential Care for Children and Youth in Ireland: Trends and Directions
Robbie Gilligan
Part 3. A View from the Field: Anglo-American Promising Practices
Editor’s introduction
James K. Whittaker, Lisa Holmes, Jorge F. del Valle and Sigrid James
CHAPTER 9. No Wrong Door (England}
Janice Nicholson
CHAPTER 10. The CARE Model (USA)
Martha J. Holden, Deborah E. Sellers and Elliott G. Smith
CHAPTER 11. Boys Town Family Teaching Model (USA)
Dan Daly and Ron Thompson
CHAPTER 12. Operationalizing Family Driven Care in Residential Settings (USA)
Millie Sweeney
Part 4. Continental European Exemplars
CHAPTER 13. The Changing Character Residential Care for Children and Youth in Spain
Amaia Bravo, Eduardo Martín and Jorge F. del Valle
CHAPTER 14. Residential Care for Children and Youth in the Netherlands
Annemiek T. Harder, and Erik Knorth
CHAPTER 15. Residential Care for Children and Youth in Germany
Sigrid James and Juri Kilian
CHAPTER 16. Residential Care for Children and Youth in Denmark
Mette Lausten
CHAPTER 17. Residential Care for Children and Youth in Italy
Laura Palareti, Cinzia Canali, Alessandra Rigamonte and Laura Fermenti
CHAPTER 18. Residential Care for Children and Youth in Portugal
Maria A. Barbosa Ducharne and Joana Soares
CHAPTER 19. Residential Care for Children and Youth in Finland
Eeva Timonen-Kallio
CHAPTER 20.Residential Care for Children and Youth in France
Bernadette Tillard and Helene Join-Lambert
Part 5. A View from the Field: Continental European Promising Practices
Editors’ Introduction
James K. Whittaker, Lisa Holmes, Jorge F. del Valle and Sigrid James
CHAPTER 21. PLANEA Program: Equipping young people for transition to adulthood from care
Laura García-Alba and Jorge F. del Valle
CHAPTER 22. Creating safe and welcoming residential care placements for LGBTQIA+ youth
Mónica López López, Gerald P. Mallon, and Leo Wieldraaijer-Vincent
Part 6. Australian, Middle Eastern and Latin American Exemplars
CHAPTER 23. Australian Residential Child and Youth Care: Some Promising Directions
Patricia McNamara and Shelley Wall
CHAPTER 24. Residential Child and Youth Care in Israel: Trends and Directions
Anat Zeira and Emmanuel Grupper
CHAPTER 25. Residential Child and Youth Care in Argentina
Mariana Incarnato and Dana Borzese
Part 7. A View from the Field: Australian, Middle Eastern and Latin American Promising Practices
Editors’ Introduction
James K. Whittaker, Lisa Holmes, Jorge F. del Valle and Sigrid James
CHAPTER 26. Therapeutic Residential Care in Australia: A New Dawn or More of the Same?
Frank Ainsworth and Howard Bath
CHAPTER 27. Contemporary Therapeutic Residential Care (TRC ): Model Development in Victoria, Australia
Patricia McNamara
CHAPTER 28. Supporting Transitions from Care in Argentina
Mariana Incarnato and Dana Borzese
Part 8. Editor’s Conclusion
CHAPTER 29.Future Prospects and Challenges for Residential Child Care: Seeking Direction from a Cross-National Analysis
James K. Whittaker, Lisa Holmes, Jorge F. del Valle and Sigrid James