A selection of papers on residential care, professional education etc:
‘Ah, but I was so much older then …’ Relational Child and Youth Care Practice, 27 (2). (2014)
Beyond the instructional mode: creating a holding environment for learning about the use of self Journal of Social Work Practice 22 (1) 67-83 (2008). Download here: Beyond the Instructional Mode …
Real-time communication in residential child care Relational Child and Youth Care Practice 20 (4) 5-11 (2007). Download here: Real Time communication in residential care
Total immersion: using group care placements to maximise practice learning Social Work Education 24 (4) 423-438 (2005)
Towards a theory of the everyday: the ordinary and the special in daily living in residential care Child and Youth Care Forum 33 (3) 209-225 (2004). Download here: Models of ordinary and special daily living
Opportunity led work: maximising the possibilities for therapeutic communication in everyday interactions Therapeutic Communities 23 (2) 111-124 (2002). Download here: Opportunity Led Work TCs Paper
The ‘Matching Principle’: Designing for process in professional education Social Work Education 18 (2) 161 – 170 (1999)
Patterns of psychological presence and absence in training for residential child care Social Work Education 17 (3) 375 – 387 (1998)
Learning to meet and meeting to learn. The use of staff-student meetings on a training programme Therapeutic Communities 17 (4) 265-78 (1996)
“Never mind the theory, feel the guidelines”. Theory, practice and official guidance in residential child care: the case of the therapeutic communities Therapeutic Communities 17 (1) 19 – 29 (1996)
To download a fuller version of this list, including Abstracts of the papers, click here: List of Papers with Abstracts
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Adrian Ward 