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Working Relationally with Youth in Child Protection Institutions: A Milieu‐Therapy Perspective
Author(s) -
Bøe Monica,
Lorås Lennart,
Vigdal Mariann Iren
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/anzf.1366
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , work (physics) , psychology , child protection , institution , qualitative research , interpretative phenomenological analysis , project commissioning , psychotherapist , developmental psychology , publishing , sociology , social science , political science , medicine , nursing , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , computer science , law , engineering
Children and youth who have shown serious difficulties or if it is surmised that parents over time will not be able to care for the child or youth, could be placed in a child protection institution. The therapeutic work in such institutions is often described as milieu therapy. There has been little focus on the milieu therapist's relational work in child protection institutions. The research question for this study was: What factors are described by milieu therapists as significant for relational work with youth placed in institutions? To answer this question, we collected data from qualitative semi‐structured interviews with four milieu therapists working in child protection institutions. Interpretative phenomenological analysis helped us identify three overarching categories: (1) structural and personal factors as a basis for relational work ; (2) various forms of communication in relational work ; and (3) relational work with a starting point in everyday events .