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Unit manager perspectives of a trauma-specific programme across Scotland’s secure estate.
- Source :
- Journal of Children's Services; 2017, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p271-287, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess unit manager perspectives on the introduction of a group-based trauma-specific programme delivered across Scotland’s secure estate. As this was the first time such an estate-wide initiative had occurred, it was important to identify the benefits/challenges at a strategic level.Design/methodology/approach An exploratory qualitative case study was utilised involving semi-structured interviews with five senior unit managers in three secure units to discover their perceptions of the benefits and challenges of implementing Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT). A quasi-qualitative analysis was used to quantify and give meaning to manager responses. Inter-rater reliability of analysis was assessed.Findings Unit managers perceived gains in trauma-informed knowledge for themselves, and knowledge and skills gains for programme workers, care staff and adolescents. Challenges involved: managing a shift in paradigm to include a trauma-specific programme; the limiting context of competitive tendering; short duration placements; and the need for psychoeducation for staff, parents and agencies.Research limitations/implications Large sample sizes are likely to identify further issues for unit managers. Manager perceptions need directly compared with staff and adolescent perceptions and included in randomised control trials of trauma-specific programmes.Practical implications Managers perceived that TRT needed to be delivered within trauma-informed organisations and identified the need for manager training in traumatisation, trauma recovery and organisational implications to guide strategic planning. Managers emphasised the need for psychoeducation for families, staff and agencies.Originality/value The current study is the first in Scotland to explore unit manager experience of introducing a trauma-specific programme across the secure estate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ATTITUDE (Psychology)
CHANGE
CHILD welfare
INSTITUTIONAL care of children
CORPORATE culture
EMPLOYEE attitudes
INDUSTRIAL relations
INTERVIEWING
LABOR (Obstetrics)
MATERNAL health services
MEDICAL personnel
ORGANIZATIONAL change
WOUNDS & injuries
RESIDENTIAL care
INTER-observer reliability
PATIENTS' attitudes
MEDICAL coding
PSYCHOEDUCATION
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17466660
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Children's Services
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 126674662
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1108/JCS-04-2017-0012