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Children In Foster Care And Excessive Medications, Jill Littrell
Children In Foster Care And Excessive Medications, Jill Littrell
jill l littrell Dr.
Children in foster care system are more likely to receive diagnoses of major mental illness and to be medicated with powerful medications such as antipsychotic drugs. Reasons for the increased risk of the actual mental illnesses and for the diagnoses of illness among children in foster care are reviewed. The reliabilities of various diagnoses are considered. The legitimacy of the rationale for early medications to prevent later disability is discussed. The very real hazards of medicating with antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, stimulants, mood stabilizers and antidepressants are reviewed. A discussion of advocacy efforts occurring around the United States on behalf of medicated …
The Practice Of Compassion In Supervision In Residential Treatment Programs For Clients With Severe Mental Illness, Katherine Tyson Mccrea Professor
The Practice Of Compassion In Supervision In Residential Treatment Programs For Clients With Severe Mental Illness, Katherine Tyson Mccrea Professor
Katherine Tyson McCrea
Clinical supervision for residential care staff is essential, and yet has rarely been studied. Drawing from the reflective practice tradition, we interviewed residential care supervisors about their clinical decision-making process, and analyzed the data qualitatively to identify common themes and distill their beliefs and reported practices. We found supervisors prioritized a compassion-based model of supervision characterized by fostering staff self-care, developing staff’s empathy and responsiveness to clients, helping staff with disappointments in their relationships with clients, accurately evaluating client progress, preserving safety, and nurturing teamwork. Supervisor’s subjective experience of their caregiving of staff could be explained using a second-level analytic …