Managing Residential Care

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-16488-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Managing Residential Care puts forward suggestions for improving the development of residential care through better management.
Extended examples and realistic case studies throughout demonstrate how managers can succeed and how sometimes the powerful forces of mismanagement can obstruct them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burton, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Kranken-, Alten- und Behindertenhilfe
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Part One Five Stories of Management Chapter 1. Marcia, Chapter 2. Bob, Chapter 3. Noreen, Chapter 4. Lok, Chapter 5. Janet and Jeeva, Part Two Thinking About Residential Work: Its Content, Organisation and Management Chapter 6. The Wider Picture and the Core Task, Chapter 7. Becoming a Good Manager in a Hostile Environment, Part Three The Practicalities of Managing a Therapeutic Social Ecology Chapter 8. Residents, Chapter 9. Staff, Chapter 10. The Building - The Therapeutic Environment, Chapter 11. Money, Budgets and Finance, Chapter 12. Putting It All Together and Making It Work: The Therapeutic Ecology in Action, Part Four Outside Influences Chapter 13. Feet of Clay - Seats of Power - Ivory Towers - and Egg Mayonnaise on the Keyboard, Chapter 14. Inspection and Independent Outsiders: Protecting Residents, Afterword The Future of Residential Care: An Opportunity For Change

Über Autor(innen)

John Burton