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Family and Parenting Analogies in Australian Residential Child Care: A Time for Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2024

Patricia Hansen  and
Frank Ainsworth
Patricia Hansen
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Nedlands, Perth, Australia
Frank Ainsworth
Affiliation:
Middlesex Polytechnic, Enfield, Middlesex, England
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In Australia the family is often used as a model for provision of residential care for children. Associated with this model is an acceptance of the parent role as the appropriate one for residential child care workers. This article explores these ideas, outlining the positive and negative aspects of the family model and the parenting function. The alternative put forward is that of identifying residential child care personnel as child development workers.

Type
Research Article
Information
Children Australia , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , Spring/Summer 1983 , pp. 3 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

References

Maier, H.W., Child Welfare, Child Care Workers, Encyclopaedia of Social Work, 1978, New York, National Association of Social Workers.Google Scholar