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Care & leadership / 2026

The Therapeutic Home

A Practical Framework for Transforming Residential Child Care

A practice handbook for children’s homes, organised around the five anchors of therapeutic care: See, Sense, Shape, Share and Sustain.

ABOUT THE BOOK

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A practical framework for residential child care, bringing together the five anchors of therapeutic care: See, Sense, Shape, Share and Sustain. The handbook combines 17 chapters, 12 workshops and 13 tools for work in children’s homes.

Inside the book

  • See, Sense, Shape, Share and Sustain
  • 17 chapters on therapeutic care
  • 12 workshops for reflection and learning
  • 13 tools for practice

For readers interested in

Key workers, senior practitioners, deputy managers, registered managers and people developing their practice in children's residential care.

Paperback ISBN: 9798187329922

FROM READING TO EVERYDAY PRACTICE

Explore the ideas.
Develop the team.

Workshops can draw on The Therapeutic Home to help colleagues reflect together and translate shared learning into daily practice.

Plan a team workshop

KEEP EXPLORING

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