Turning ordinary love into extraordinary outcomes at East Park
This article describes East Park School’s journey in conceptualising agape and what it means to provide a care experience that demonstrates love in a meaningful way:- Explaining why young people need to feel loved and not just cared for.- Describing how we explored the difficulties of maintaining pr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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CELCIS
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care |
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| Summary: | This article describes East Park School’s journey in conceptualising agape and what it means to provide a care experience that demonstrates love in a meaningful way:- Explaining why young people need to feel loved and not just cared for.- Describing how we explored the difficulties of maintaining professional boundaries in practice, while managing risk in situations where we looked for more loving ways to intervene.- Showing how we build on trust and existing relationships to create more opportunities for our young people to experience love.- Defining what love means to young people with complex and multiple diagnoses and witnessing extraordinary outcomes.- Explaining how we entrench the expectation of love into recruitment and induction conversations for new staff. |
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| ISSN: | 2976-9353 |