We are very excited about the variety of articles we have been able to assemble for this issue and we hope that you will find much to interest you in issue Number 8 of the goodenoughcaring Journal which is published online at http://www.goodenoughcaring.com/JournalIndex.aspx
In the fare provided, the young Londoner Alexander Nicolaou speaks about what becoming an award winning documentary film maker has meant to him. German social worker Harald Stoelting gives us his thoughts on becoming a residential child care worker in the United Kingdom. The author Hilary Mantel recalls her experience of being a social worker. Kevin Lalor and Rosaleen McElvaney of the Dublin Institute of Technology write about the nature and prevalence of child sexual abuse with reference to a new campaign by the Council of Europe to eliminate child abuse. Cynthia Cross thinks about the kind of children who might be helped by a therapeutic residential child care experience. Ariola Vishnja Zjarri talks about transference and counter-transference in her work with young people. Sheila Wilson, a residential child care worker in the south east of England discusses the critical significance of inter-disciplinary communication in child care work. Max Smart, the manager of a home for young people in Scotland writes about generosity in residential child care. John Stein asks if residential child care is really necessary. In an interview with Charles Sharpe, John Cross, the Executive Director of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust explores, among many other things, the troubled child’s need for a good enough fundamental experience, and gives thought to the kind of worker and the kind of environment needed to provide this. There are book reviews from Noel Howard and Mark Smith.
(First posted online on December 15th, 2010 on the goodenoughcaring website home page at http://www.goodenoughcaring.com/ ).
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