AS*IF: A model for thinking about child and youth care interventions

Garfat, Thom; Newcomen, Terry

doi:10.1007/bf00757195

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“…It is within daily life events, in the small, seemingly unimportant moments, where we find the opportunities to help families live their lives differently (Fox, 1995;Garfat, 1998;Maier, 1987;Redl, 1959). Ultimately, this is the goal of a child and youth care approach to working with families: to help family members live their lives differently.…”

Section: Assumption Iii: Child and Youth Care Utilizes Daily Life Evementioning

confidence: 97%

“…While people still live out their patterns and dynamics in any environment in which they find themselves (Garfat, 1998;Minuchen, 1978), they normally live their lives in their world, not the world of an office or a counseling room. I know that some people make an argument that when you meet with families in an office, you are meeting in "neutral territory" where the normal clues and triggers associated with their actions are not present.…”

Section: Assumption Ii: Child and Youth Care Workers Are Involved Witmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Child and youth care work is a relationship-based form of helping (Fewster, 1990;Fox, 1995;Garfat, 1998;Krueger, 1998) that is based on a sense of caring for and about others. Within the context of a child and youth care approach, caring is defined in terms of action (Ricks, 1992).…”

Section: Interventions Are Characterized By Caring For the Family Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While the foregoing has suggested something about where and why the worker might intervene, it has not addressed the question of the characteristics of those interventions. Recent research (Garfat, 1998) has suggested that it is possible to identify characteristics associated with effective child and youth care interventions. The following section translates those characteristics into the territory of child and youth care work with families.…”

Section: Assumption Iii: Child and Youth Care Utilizes Daily Life Evementioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is sometimes useful for us to know where these have come from in our own lives because, in knowing this, we are more able to know how it is that we are having the experience we are having at any given point in time (Garfat, 1992(Garfat, , 1994. One of the characteristics of effective child and youth care is that the worker possesses an "active self-awareness" (Garfat, 1998, Ricks, 1989. Knowing about self is essential to being an actively self-aware helper.…”

Section: Assumption Ii: Child and Youth Care Workers Are Involved Witmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Working with Families

Garfat¹

2004

Child & Youth Services

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Recently there has been discussion of a distinctly "youth care approach" to working with families. There are some assumptions of this kind of work, including (a) family life is lived in "daily events," and in those daily life events there are patterns of interacting; (b) child and youth care workers are involved with families as they live their lives; and (c) child and youth care utilizes daily life events for therapeutic purposes, as they occur. Family work interventions are characterized by caring for the family and individual family members, related to the immediate and the overall context, and reflect a way of connecting that fits each family, including their rules, roles, culture, rhythm, timing, and style.

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Section: Assumption Iii: Child and Youth Care Utilizes Daily Life Evementioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Assumption Ii: Child and Youth Care Workers Are Involved Witmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Interventions Are Characterized By Caring For the Family Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Assumption Iii: Child and Youth Care Utilizes Daily Life Evementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Assumption Ii: Child and Youth Care Workers Are Involved Witmentioning

confidence: 99%

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