ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors share with their readers the way in which they have attempted to approach the problems that confront all of them engaged in the practice of residential treatment. They have been intimately involved in the problems of training the "on-line" therapists—the child care workers. The ultimate goal is a model for treatment that is open to new ideas, basically eclectic in regard to theory—and most important of all—a model that will bear both the test of time and that of the children. It has long been the authors' contention that the "problems and issues" of residential treatment that are discussed at many national and regional conferences have more to do with the needs and strivings of the professional groups who run residential treatment centers than they do with the needs and problems of the children in care.
