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Description
Therapeutic Case Advocacy (TCA) is one approach to helping emotionally handicapped children and their families. It is described here as a multi-level model to improve services for this population for two reasons. First, the approach typically requires planned, coordinated activity on three levels: the child and family, the lead organization providing services, and interagency collaboration. Second, the word "model" conveys the idea of what the real thing might look like.
The model is a preliminary pattern, a plan for guiding the actual process of helping emotionally handicapped children and their families. It is not a recipe. Any actual process of helping guided by this model may vary from that described here according to individual child and family need, organizational capacity, and community context. Nevertheless, there are three core components of this model for helping that, if adopted, would improve services for emotionally handicapped children and their families.
Publication Date
Spring 1987
Subjects
Social work with youth, Youth -- Mental health services
Disciplines
Social Policy | Social Welfare | Social Work
Rights
Copyright @1987 by Regional Research Institute. All Rights Reserved
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34076
Recommended Citation
Portland State University. Regional Research Institute, "Focal Point, Volume 01 Number 03" (1987). Research and Training Center - Focal Point. 3.
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34076