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When is a Model Not a Model?: “Contextual Residential Care” in Context — A response to Tyndale and Kaye †
Author(s) -
Durrant Michael
Publication year - 1991
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/j.1467-8438.1991.tb00857.x
Subject(s) - residential care , context (archaeology) , set (abstract data type) , sociology , project commissioning , residential area , publishing , psychology , computer science , medicine , gerontology , political science , geography , law , archaeology , programming language
Tyndale and Kaye (1991) have offered an informative review of residential programmes which define themselves as using the principles of “Contextual Residential Care”. This paper argues that “Contextual Residential Care” is not a “model” of residential treatment but a description of one application of a set of ideas or principles — and that the application of these ideas to other programmes requires a recognition of the unique context of each programme. The paper considers some of the criticisms offered by Tyndale and Kaye, further examines the role of parents in the residential treatment of their adolescent and acknowledges some shortcomings in the original “Contextual Residential Care” paper.