TY - JOUR
T1 - Consensus statement on group care for children and adolescents
T2 - A statement of policy of the american orthopsychiatric association
AU - Dozier, Mary
AU - Kaufman, Joan
AU - Kobak, Roger
AU - O'Connor, Thomas G.
AU - Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham
AU - Scott, Stephen
AU - Shauffer, Carole
AU - Smetana, Judith
AU - van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.
AU - Zeanah, Charles H.
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - Group care for children and adolescents is widely used as a rearing environment and sometimes used as a setting in which intensive services can be provided. This consensus statement on group care affirms that children and adolescents have the need and right to grow up in a family with at least 1 committed, stable, and loving adult caregiver. In principle, group care should never be favored over family care. Group care should be used only when it is the least detrimental alternative, when necessary therapeutic mental health services cannot be delivered in a less restrictive setting.
AB - Group care for children and adolescents is widely used as a rearing environment and sometimes used as a setting in which intensive services can be provided. This consensus statement on group care affirms that children and adolescents have the need and right to grow up in a family with at least 1 committed, stable, and loving adult caregiver. In principle, group care should never be favored over family care. Group care should be used only when it is the least detrimental alternative, when necessary therapeutic mental health services cannot be delivered in a less restrictive setting.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84902971533&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/ort0000005
DO - 10.1037/ort0000005
M3 - Article
C2 - 24827016
AN - SCOPUS:84902971533
SN - 0002-9432
VL - 84
SP - 219
EP - 225
JO - American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
JF - American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
IS - 3
ER -