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Teaching Family Model
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- George Brown College (GBC )
Based on research of: Levitt et al. p. 13, (1981)
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🏑Teaching Family Model
Column Lecture 12
Tags WEEK 12
Teaching-Family Model
It is an integrated system of residential treatment for troubled youth
Each program is directed by a teaching family couple who lives with 4 - 8
boys/girls/them
Youth attend to a local school, visit their family and work when possible
The Teaching-Family Model TFA is a model of care for troubled youth used
internationally in group homes, foster care, schools, home-based treatment, and
other youth and dependent adult care programs.
The Teaching-Family Model TFA is a model of care for troubled youth used
internationally in group homes, foster care, schools, home-based treatment, and
other youth and dependent adult care programs.
(Some... ) Support Services for Teaching Family Model
Administrative services
Ongoing training and consultation
Program evaluation
Routine Program Evaluation
Measurement for staff, youth, parents and board directors
Teaching Family Model 1
, Data collection
Ranges from "subjective" questioners to complex experimental data
Some of them use single subject design
History of Family Model
1967 Judge Charles Rankin
Dismayed with abuses and neglect of large residential institutes
Institutional care of little success teaching life skills
Research points this as a reason for recidivism
Major research questions stemmed from teaching "like a parent
philosophy"
Develop contingencies that reinforce appropriate bx
Teach life skills
Teach self-monitoring and self-management
Teach generalization
1995 Wolf et. al.: Goal of Teaching Family Model
Constructed a family like program
Provided socializing influences of contingencies, models and values that
would facilitate individualized redirection
Now:
Evidence-based residential treatment
Components are based on research
The first group home in which was integrated was at Lawrence, Kansas
It is community based
Uses behavioural and social learning theory
Teaching Family Model 2
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