Community level interventions in child and youth care practice

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dc.contributor.authorDerksen, Teri
dc.contributor.supervisorArtz, Sibylle
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-02T23:04:02Z
dc.date.available2011-12-02T23:04:02Z
dc.date.copyright2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-12-02
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Child and Youth Care
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this qualitative study is to describe how child and youth care practitioners experience their engagement in community level interventions. Five child and youth care practitioners, who identified themselves as engaging in community level interventions in their work, were interviewed and data were analysed using a combined narrative and thematic approach. Eight themes emerged from the data that describe participants’ experience with community, community change and community level interventions. Results show how community level interventions have a tendency to target the micro, meso and occasionally exo, rather than macro, levels of communities. Thus, multi-level interventions are recommended as a way to shift child and youth care practice from an emphasis on interventions with individuals, towards greater emphasis on interventions that are aimed at the multiple levels of the child and youth’s ecological system. The study identifies implications for post-secondary curriculum, professional practice, agency mandates and job descriptions.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3705
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectchild and youth careen_US
dc.subjectcommunityen_US
dc.subjectcommunity level interventionsen_US
dc.subjectmulti-level interventionsen_US
dc.subjectecological systemsen_US
dc.subjectecological perspectiveen_US
dc.subjectecological theoryen_US
dc.titleCommunity level interventions in child and youth care practiceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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