ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter
Introduction
part I|31 pages
Five stories of management
chapter Chapter 1|6 pages
Marcia
chapter Chapter 2|5 pages
Bob
chapter Chapter 3|6 pages
Noreen
chapter Chapter 4|5 pages
Lok
chapter Chapter 5|6 pages
Janet and Jeeva
part II|35 pages
Thinking about residential care: its context, organisation and management
chapter Chapter 6|14 pages
The wider picture and the core task
chapter Chapter 7|19 pages
Becoming a good manager in a hostile environment
part III|94 pages
The practicalities of managing a therapeutic social ecology
chapter Chapter 8|24 pages
Residents
chapter Chapter 9|29 pages
Staff
chapter Chapter 10|12 pages
The building: the therapeutic environment
chapter Chapter 11|11 pages
Money, budgets and finance
chapter Chapter 12|16 pages
Putting it all together and making it work: the therapeutic ecology in action
part IV|42 pages
Outside influences
