Book review : Whittaker, J.K., del Valle, J.F., and Holmes L. (Eds). (2015). Therapeutic residential care for children and youth: Developing evidence-based international practice. London: Jessica Kingsley. 392pp, ISBN 978184905792

Stanley, Jonathan (2016) Book review : Whittaker, J.K., del Valle, J.F., and Holmes L. (Eds). (2015). Therapeutic residential care for children and youth: Developing evidence-based international practice. London: Jessica Kingsley. 392pp, ISBN 978184905792. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 15 (1). ISSN 1478-1840

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Abstract

The authors of this edited book 'believe that properly designed and monitored Therapeutic Residential Care represents one critical form of specialized mental health treatment' to be located in a broader array of child and family services' (p.25). To make this a reality, this book shows the need for providers/ practitioners to deploy multiple evidence-based interventions; whether for a specific or milieu setting, there needs to be diagnostic-specific, efficacious interventions enabling the right placement for the right child the first time he or she requires substitute care.

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