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A valid and useful approach to treating illness is to promote health. Child care workers in particular can use this approach by cultivating children's emotional well-being and normal growth and development, i.e., competency. Interpersonal competency is stressed, for how others relate to children is the mirror they use to define themselves.
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The author is also with Childhaven, a Seattle therapeutic day care program for abused and neglected preschoolers, and would like to express his appreciation to Childhaven and to Patrick Gogerty and Vicki Shimabukuro for their help and suggestions in this work. Many of the ideas and observations presented here were derived from the Author's experience in helping to establish thirteen therapeutic day care programs for abused and neglected preschool children throughout the State of Washington.
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Durkin, R. “Therapeutic” child care: A competency-oriented interpersonal approach. Child Youth Care Forum 17, 169–184 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01083863
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