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Therapeutic careThe term ‘therapeutic’ means "to have a relationship that promotes healing and growth." The principle of therapeutic work takes place "in a relationship within a setting, the assumption being that the unconscious minds of each participant attempt to distort the relationship to fit the inner world expectation of what relationships are like." Therapeutic work involves the business of actually living with the young person so that it becomes possible to see clearly where there are deficits and therefore how to encourage the development of the resources. Therapeutic work involves a certain way of being with children and youth. It is focused and purposeful. What used to be called "hanging out with kids" is now referred to as developing therapeutic relationships with children, youth and sometimes families.Therapeutic work in the context of CYC is different from therapy work that is carried out by other professionals. Some authors clarify that the therapeutic use of daily life events invites CYCWs to use a different way of thinking about how they engage and connect with young people. Phelan (2005:351) argued that the professional distance required by office-based therapy approaches is actually detrimental to effective CYC work. CYC has both preventive and therapeutic dimensions. CYCWs have therapeutic or remedial care focus to help the children achieve normal developmental levels and pursue age-appropriate developmental tasks. It however seems that there is confusion in terms of what it is that CYCWs are doing exactly in terms of therapeutic work. CYCWs do not do therapy, but therapeutic work.In CYC, the children needing support are not likely to have received responsive care-giving. In fact, their care may have been frightening, abusive, or thoroughly absent. Hence every encounter with them should serve as an opportunity to allow these children experience themselves and situations differently. These little experiences should accumulate in order to give them new hope and new meanings about their lives. From a CYC perspective, there is no specific moment to bring about such experiences. Every moment is an opportunity to bring about healing. Hence CYC work is done within the life-space of these children and youth as it is difficult to predict the perfect moment which can make an everlasting impact. For that reason, CYCWs work within the life space of these children and youth, with the aim of making some therapeutic impacts during those life-space encounters.Developmental intentionsChild and youth care is primarily focused on the growth and development of children and youth. While families, communities, and organisations are important concerns for child and youth care professionals, they are viewed as contexts for the care of children. The development of children and youth is the core.Child and youth care is concerned with the totality of child development and functioning. The focus is on persons living through a certain portion of the human life cycle rather than with one facet of functioning, as is characteristic of most other human service disciplines. For example, physiotherapists are concerned primarily with physical health, psychiatrists with mental health, probation officers with criminal behaviour, teachers with education, and so on. Only the emerging field of gerontology appears to share child and youth care’s concern with the life cycle as a totality.Child and youth care is based on (but not restricted to) direct, day-to-day work with children in their environment. Unlike many other professionals, child and youth care practitioners do not operate in a single setting or on an interview or session-oriented basis. Children and youth are worked with in their own environments, whether they are residential centres, schools, hospitals, family homes, or the street. Although child and youth care workers also assume supporting roles such as supervising, directing, training, policy-making, and researching, they remain grounded in direct care work. Caring and professionalism are not mutually exclusive entities, and the challenge to the child and youth care field is that of evolving in a manner which acknowledges both the human and technical aspects of professionalism and maintains a good balance between them.

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