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Tips and Tricks for Working with Children in Residential Treatment Care
Are you an advocate who works in residential treatment care? If so, The Healing Embrace Network put together a great and FREE resource for you: Tips and Tricks for Working with Children in Residential Treatment ....
This free guidebook is a useful manual to help advocates be more successful in their work with children. It offers practical techniques to help children get the most benefit from their residential treatment care experience and to maximize the effectiveness of direct-care workers.
Visit this link to get a free copy: www.healingembrace.org/booklet.html
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Here is an excerpt from the book:
"Be consistent. Always.
"Always consistently enforce the rules and the structure as they are; do not amend them to appease the demands of any one child (unless there is a directive from a supervisor or clinician to do so). That way, both you and the children will always know where the limits resolutely stand, reducing the number of power struggles you'll have to fight. You may be tempted to give in and bend a rule to placate a child for the moment—and it may work out well for the time being—but in the long run it will only teach the child that he can make demands and have them granted regardless of the rules.
"Plus, these kids thrive on consistency and become anxious and volatile when the program and rules constantly fluctuate, for unpredictability provokes the clients’ fear of the unknown. Consistency, on the other hand, ensures harmony. Consistency is a beautiful thing, for it makes your job easier in the long run."
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Thanks,
David & Brent
The Healing Embrace Network
This free guidebook is a useful manual to help advocates be more successful in their work with children. It offers practical techniques to help children get the most benefit from their residential treatment care experience and to maximize the effectiveness of direct-care workers.
Visit this link to get a free copy: www.healingembrace.org/booklet.html
***
Here is an excerpt from the book:
"Be consistent. Always.
"Always consistently enforce the rules and the structure as they are; do not amend them to appease the demands of any one child (unless there is a directive from a supervisor or clinician to do so). That way, both you and the children will always know where the limits resolutely stand, reducing the number of power struggles you'll have to fight. You may be tempted to give in and bend a rule to placate a child for the moment—and it may work out well for the time being—but in the long run it will only teach the child that he can make demands and have them granted regardless of the rules.
"Plus, these kids thrive on consistency and become anxious and volatile when the program and rules constantly fluctuate, for unpredictability provokes the clients’ fear of the unknown. Consistency, on the other hand, ensures harmony. Consistency is a beautiful thing, for it makes your job easier in the long run."
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Thanks,
David & Brent
The Healing Embrace Network
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