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

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Description¶

This strategy replaces the brief procedural intake with a phased, therapeutic admission. The article specifies what workers should attempt: "to examine youths' needs; to formrelationships with them; to involve their significant social supports; and to celebrate youths' arrival." It is implemented in the CMR model through distinct transitional gradual admission stages (preparation, initial meeting, follow-up meeting, pre-admission planning, separation, experimentation) and a separate transitional immediate admission sequence for urgent placements.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Workers trained and time to conduct multi-stage admissions rather than a single intake meeting

Constraints¶

• Emergency admissions require a compressed immediate-admission variant; the article treats gradual and immediate admissions as distinct procedures

Target Learners¶

• youth care workers conducting admissions at residential treatment programs

Target Learning Goals¶

• easing youths comfortably into residential treatment
• building early worker-youth relationships

Affordances¶

• Cmr Context Metaphor Relationship Model

Related Strategies¶

Examples¶

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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