This is the online publication for all those interested in the way children grow up and how they are nurtured. It welcomes contributions from parents, foster parents, residential child care workers in children’s homes, day care workers, social workers, teachers, youth workers, youth mentors, child therapists, social pedadogues, and educateurs, and all people who reflect on their own upbringing.
The goodenoughcaring Journal which is electronically archived at the British Library is not an academic publication though academic submissions are welcomed and considered for publication alongside all other submissions.
The members of the editorial group are Evelyn Daniel, Siobain Degregorio, Jane Kenny, Mark Smith, Ariola Vishnja and Charles Sharpe.
To submit an article for publication or to discuss an idea for an article contact the editorial group at goodenoughcaring@hotmail.com The current edition of the Journal was published on December 15th, 2009. The next edition will be published on June 15th, 2010.
CONTENTS
| EDITORIAL No 6 : There's a lot to learn for wastin' time |
THE EDITORS |
13 Dec 2009 |
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| A Sense of Being Home |
Bob Mann |
13 Dec 2009 |
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| An interview with Jonathan Stanley, the Manager of the National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care |
Jonathan Stanley |
13 Dec 2009 |
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| It's the New Thing !! |
Jeremy Millar |
14 Dec 2009 |
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| The Art of Effective Communication:
A Pilot Course in Video Enhanced Reflective Practice for Staff in a Residential Setting for Young People. |
Calum Strathie |
12 Dec 2009 |
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| Transference, Projection, Attachment and Loss : Emotional Containment in Residential Child Care |
Dominic McNally |
13 Dec 2009 |
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| Therapeutic Containment and Physical Restraint in Residential Child Care |
Laura Steckley |
12 Dec 2009 |
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| Dilemmas |
Cynthia Cross |
12 Dec 2009 |
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| The Educational Attainment of Looked After Children in England : Are Personal Educational Plans Improving Their Educational Prospects |
Donna Hugh |
13 Dec 2009 |
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| And what about the mental health of children and young people in care in the UK ? |
Nancy Mohindra |
13 Dec 2009 |
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| Developmental Assets for Kids |
Dr. Leon Fulcher |
26 Dec 2009 |
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| EDITORIAL No.5 JUNE 2009 |
THE EDITORS |
15 Jun 2009 |
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| Becoming a learning mentor : a personal journey
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Claudette Brown |
15 Jun 2009 |
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| Helping a young person living in residential care to return to mainstream school. |
Athlene Derry |
15 Jun 2009 |
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| Clare and Donald Winnicott: Play, Holding and the Transitional Participant |
Joel Kanter |
15 Jun 2009 |
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| The resilience of children in care : the influence of adult attachment figures |
Lorea Boneke |
15 Jun 2009 |
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| Attachment theory and social work with 'looked after' children and their families |
John Fallowfield |
15 Jun 2009 |
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| Updating Life Story Work for use with a technologically proficient generation: a review |
Simon Hammond |
15 Jun 2009 |
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| The Growth of Love : Five Essential Elements of Child Development |
Dr. Keith J. White |
15 Jun 2009 |
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| What's In a Name ? |
John Stein |
15 Jun 2009 |
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| My experience of moving from outreach work with young adults to residential care work with children and young people |
Douglas Cameron |
15 Jun 2009 |
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| Film : Attachment to a Camera : a review of Helena Trestikova's film, 'Rene' |
Alison Poltock |
15 Jun 2009 |
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| Rethinking Residential Child Care : Positive perspectives by Mark Smith : Book Review |
Charles Sharpe |
15 Jun 2009 |
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| EDITORIAL No.4 DECEMBER, 2008 |
THE EDITORS |
14 Dec 2008 |
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| Resolutions |
Cynthia Cross |
14 Dec 2008 |
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| Parents who misuse drugs or drug users who have children? |
Calum Strathie |
14 Dec 2008 |
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| Summerhill School |
Zoe Readhead |
14 Dec 2008 |
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| Care is therapy |
John Burton |
14 Dec 2008 |
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| A Penny for Your Thoughts Jen: Surviving and Thriving in Residential Care Homes |
Simon P. Hammond |
14 Dec 2008 |
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| On becoming and being a foster carer |
Shanna Marrinan |
14 Dec 2008 |
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| Keynote conference presentation : Loving or Fearful Relationships |
Mark Smith |
14 Dec 2008 |
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| Conference presentation: Lost in Translation- Who should look after children in the care system? |
Jeremy Millar |
14 Dec 2008 |
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| Conference presentation : Troubled young people : how can we love them ? |
Siobain Degregorio |
14 Dec 2008 |
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| Conference presentation : What is this thing called love ? caring for other people's children. |
Charles Sharpe |
14 Dec 2008 |
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| Conference presentation : The place of love in recent developments in the care and education of troubled children : a view from a practitioner |
Evelyn Daniel |
16 Jan 2009 |
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| Themes from the group discussions at the goodenoughcaring conference - Love Is Enough : sincerity and professionalism in the care of children and young people |
Jane Kenny and Ariola Vishnja |
18 Jan 2009 |
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| EDITORIAL No. 3 JUNE, 2008 |
THE EDITORS |
25 Jun 2008 |
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| Loving or fearful relationships |
Mark Smith |
01 Jun 2008 |
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| Normalisation or Systemalisation ? How children looked after in children's homes are depersonalised by the processes and procedures of a public child care system. |
Jane Kenny |
21 Jun 2008 |
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| Lost in Translation |
Jeremy Millar |
01 Jun 2008 |
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| Steven K |
Jan Noble |
23 Jun 2008 |
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| Disrupted relationships : a personal view of the causes of placement breakdown for children and young people in care. |
Douglas Cameron |
22 Jun 2008 |
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| By Nurture Not Enforcement |
Martin Wigg |
01 Jun 2008 |
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| Cultivating the Good Heart : integrating an ethic of mutual care into the development of an Indian school community. |
Jo Nash |
01 Jun 2008 |
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| One night out in Dublin |
Jan Noble |
25 Jun 2008 |
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| 1966 and All That |
Bob Billingham |
24 Jun 2008 |
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| Memoirs of a Training School Lad |
David Murphy |
22 Jun 2008 |
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| Difference and Diversity : Meeting Dietary Needs in Children's Homes |
Patson Musumali |
25 Jun 2008 |
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| The man who turned into his father |
Jan Noble |
23 Jun 2008 |
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| EDITORIAL No.2 DECEMBER, 2007 |
The EDITORS |
19 Dec 2007 |
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| Crazy Mixed Up Kid : the Daughter's Story |
Chloe Smith |
19 Dec 2007 |
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| Working to make sure professional procedures do not lead to the institutionalisation of children living in children's homes |
Jane Kenny |
14 Dec 2007 |
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| Pie, Mash and Liquor |
Jan Noble |
15 Dec 2007 |
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| Toward Posterity |
Jan Noble |
15 Dec 2007 |
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| How the Impact of Multiple Changes and Breakdowns in the Lives of Children and Young People in Care Affects Them and Their Relationships with Professional Carers |
Nancy Mohindra |
19 Dec 2007 |
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| Quantitive Research and Residential Child Care : an Unfruitful Marriage |
Ariola Vishnja |
13 Dec 2007 |
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| The Right to be Normal : how my childhood experience has influenced my thinking about my work as a teaching assistant |
Amanda Towers |
13 Dec 2007 |
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| EDITORIAL No.1 MAY/JUNE, 2007 |
The EDITORS |
25 May 2007 |
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| Working with Young People Who Have Been Sexually Abused in Childhood : a Case Study |
Lorea Boneke |
25 May 2007 |
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| The importance of play in the care of children and young people : reflections on a short case study. |
Dominic McNally |
22 May 2007 |
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| Tackling anti-social behaviour - 'toughness' versus effectiveness |
Dorothy Thornhill |
22 May 2007 |
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| The impact of culture and difference on my practice as an outreach worker supporting young adults who are preparing to leave the care system. |
John Fallowfield |
22 May 2007 |
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| Good Enough Caring : using a psychodynamic approach to the care of children and young people in the care system. |
Charles Sharpe, Evelyn Daniel & Siobain Degregorio |
22 May 2007 |
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| Being a parent : some thoughts on learning from your children. |
Jennie Thomas |
22 May 2007 |
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| The concept of the therapeutic holding environment and how it has been implemented in the residential home for young people in which I work. |
Ariola Vishnja |
22 May 2007 |
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