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Treatment Planning for Residential and Non-Residential Care: A Study on Indication-for-Treatment Statements as Input to the Care Process

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The central issue in this contribution is the analysis of indication-for-treatment statements (IFT's) in Dutch child and youth care. In the Netherlands under the new Youth Care Act, clients can only obtain intensive forms of child and youth care on the basis of a so-called written IFT-statement. Two studies are presented: one investigating the general quality of the IFT-statements, the other focusing in more detail on the quality of IFT-statements. The main question in both studies is to what extent IFT-statements meet the basic requirements that represent a well-founded and explicit decision, and by meeting that requirement, create a firm basis for treatment planning in residential and non-residential child and youth care services. The authors advocate to make IFT-statements more explicit and, by doing so, to contribute to an increased transparency of the decision-making process at the entrance into child and youth care services.

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  1. Center for Special Education and Child Care, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9555, NL-2300 RB, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Janneke Metselaar

  2. University of Groningen, The Netherlands

    Erik J. Knorth

  3. University of Leiden, The Netherlands

    Marc J. Noom

  4. Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare (NIZW), The Netherlands

    Tom A. Van Yperen & Carolien Konijn

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Metselaar, J., Knorth, E.J., Noom, M.J. et al. Treatment Planning for Residential and Non-Residential Care: A Study on Indication-for-Treatment Statements as Input to the Care Process. Child & Youth Care Forum 33, 151–173 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:CCAR.0000029684.84484.4c

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