The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action: A Collaborative, Competency-Based Approach. - Review - book review

Adolescence, Spring, 2000

BERTOLINO, Bob, & THOMPSON, Kevin. The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action: A Collaborative, Competency-Based Approach. New York: The Haworth Mental Health Press, 1999. l82pp. $39.95 (h), $24.95 (p).

This book will help youth care workers administer psychotropic medications, understand psychiatric labels, handle crises and staffing, and give accurate assessments. Emphasizing ideas that focus on the strengths and abilities of young people from the assessment phase of treatment through discharge, this guidebook will help you take the views and actions of youths into consideration from a change-oriented perspective in order to offer your clients appropriate services. The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action explains several approaches that you can use to positively impact the lives of the young people in your residential facility. Complete with handouts and diagrams such as a post-crisis debriefing form, a level promotion petition form, and a weekly success chart that can be reproduced and used in various residential programs, this book will help you create a positive atmosphere for youths and prepare them for a successful future.