Metaphor anchors for supporting newly admitted youths¶

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Description¶

Metaphor anchors are objects and tasks workers use to anchor experiences for recently admitted youths, adapted from Peterson (1988) into the article's admissions context. The article states: "During residential admission, metaphor anchors help youths accomplish the following: to make the transition from their previous placement to the new program; to form relationships with Workers and other children; to accentuate them, and to consider continued development." Types include transition, power, buffer, ritual, koan, task, grail, resource state, and achievement anchor objects.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Workers who notice and validate youths' use of objects and structure anchor experiences during interactions

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• newly admitted youths in residential treatment

Target Learning Goals¶

• transitioning from a previous placement
• forming relationships with workers and peers
• recognizing achievement and continued development

Affordances¶

• Cmr Context Metaphor Relationship Model

Claims¶

Related Elements¶

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

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