Care-Giver Primacy as a worker stance for meeting new youths' needs¶

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Description¶

Care-Giver Primacy is a component the article advances within the CMR model to reorient youth workers during admissions. As printed, "'Care-Giver Primacy' was advanced to help Workers deal with the needs of new youths." It positions the worker's caregiving relationship, rather than procedural intake tasks, as the primary focus when a new youth arrives, supporting the model's emphasis on relationships and gradual, empathic transition.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Workers who prioritize attending to the needs of newly admitted youths over procedural intake tasks

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• youth care workers at residential treatment programs

Target Learning Goals¶

• responding to new youths' needs during admission
• forming early connections with newly admitted youths

Affordances¶

• Cmr Context Metaphor Relationship Model

Claims¶

• Youth workers at the treatment program treated admissions as a sudden procedural event rather than a gradual therapeutic process [+W]

Related Elements¶

• Metaphor anchors for supporting newly admitted youths

Examples¶

• Conduct admissions as a gradual therapeutic process examining needs, forming relationships, involving supports, and celebrating arrival

Key Sources¶

• Williams, Paul A. (1995). Developing a Model to Ease Youths' Transitions into Residential Treatment: Integrating Constructivist Therapies and Youth Care Work into a Contextually Relevant Rite of Passage. Nova Southeastern University. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED398498