Published by The International Centre for Therapeutic Care
In residence includes regular columns from John Diamond of The Mulberry Bush School, as well as articles submitted as part of the bi-monthly Therapeutic Care Journal
In this essay, I will look at the results of a survey carried out by my employer last year to assess the effectiveness of the school’s approach to racism within the organization, and the support offered to staff and children from BAME backgrounds within the organization. I would like to acknowledge that it was asked … Read more
Welcome to our August edition of the TCJ and IC news. For your summer reading we bring you another set of excellent papers exploring global perspectives on the important role of residential care in providing protection and therapeutic healing experiences for children, young people and their families. This current set of papers reaches us from … Read more
Review of Nobody’s Child: The True Story of Growing up in a Yorkshire Children’s Home, by G. J. Urquhart (Cheltenham: The History Press, 2020) Gloria Urquhart was born in 1946 and her story of life in a Yorkshire children’s home is set mostly in the period of the Children’s Departments in England from 1948 to … Read more
By Patrick James Reason, founder and director of the NGO Associação Beneficente Encontro com Deus and National Secretary of the Brazilian Movement for the Rights of Children and Adolescents to live in Family and Community. Brief Description This article presents the joint protection method of care for vulnerable and at risk children and adolescents together … Read more
I am writing this piece primarily because I never want to forget some of the things that happened on Friday 4th June 2021 at Mill Grove. It had already been a memorable week because the day before one of the children who comes regularly for physiotherapy took his first steps unaided. I had been passing … Read more
It was the Spring Bank holiday, and with Covid restrictions still in place, we couldn’t go with our usual custom and practice and have a barbecue with an open house. So we opted to be around and let things happen: no plans, except for having a pizza or two in reserve. As we were welcoming … Read more
In his introduction to Living with Children the second volume of articles from The TCJ, David Lane describes Mill Grove as a most unusual place which “for the purposes of statutory registration is unclassifiable”. This is right on the nail. Some decades earlier, R.J.N. Todd, an inspector from the Home Office, wrote in one of … Read more
“Though No-One Understands My Feelings, But There Is God” The Butterfly Longitudinal Re/Integration Research project is a unique study of more than 100 survivors of human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and abuse in Cambodia. The 10-year-long study is “one of the longest running trafficking survivor research projects in the world.” (Chab Dai Butterfly Project Website). It … Read more
By Ewan Anderson and Norman Cooke. The core and focus of any setting is the human environment in which children and staff interact. Within this can be distinguished the personal space of children and staff, communal space and service space. The human environment is enclosed within the physical environment which may comprise the built environment … Read more
In this edition of the TCJ we bring you papers from our TCJ ‘Covid World Cafe’ event, which was due to take place on May 7th. These papers represent the growing global reach of the TCJ, and our mission to share ideas about therapeutic care, reflective practice and research of children and young people from … Read more
This study aimed to understand care-leavers´ perspective, highlighting positive and negative experiences in relation to the three main dimensions of the PNCFC: (1) support for the family and prevention of family separation; (2) reorganization of alternative care services; and (3) adoption centered on the best interests of the child and adolescent. The research heard the … Read more
Introduction. COVID-19 started in December 2019 with a cluster of about 40 cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology, some of the patients being vendors and dealers in the Huanan Seafood market in Wuhan, China. World Health Organization (WHO), along with Chinese authorities, started working together and the etiological agent was soon established to be a … Read more