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Quality of experience in residential care programmes: Retrospective perspectives of former youth participants
Author(s) -
Chatfield Mark M.,
Diehl David C.,
Johns Tracy L.,
Smith Suzanna,
GalindoGonzalez Sebastian
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
child and family social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-2206
pISSN - 1356-7500
DOI - 10.1111/cfs.12796
Subject(s) - exploratory research , quality (philosophy) , wilderness , perception , psychology , medical education , clinical psychology , nursing , medicine , sociology , social science , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience , biology
This exploratory study examined perceptions of care quality within parent‐pay youth treatment programmes such as therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment centres, wilderness therapy programmes, and intensive outpatient programmes. Reflecting on their personal experiences as youths, 214 adults reported on a total of 75 different treatment settings. Two indices developed for this study measured participants' perceptions of quality of experience and the totalistic programme characteristics of their care settings. Regression analyses and ANOVA tests of means indicated a negative relationship between totalistic programme characteristics and quality of experience index scores. Significant relationships were not found between quality of experience and forcible transport, intake decade, or the amount of time in treatment.