Concerns of maltreatment and poor outcomes persist in residential care despite numerous government inquiries and recommendations. Young people in residential care continue to be the most vulnerable and marginalized group in the out‐of‐home care population. Young people's voices are also underrepresented in research. Existing studies predominantly focus on service evaluations in which individual voices of young people are overshadowed by adults' perspectives. Other studies examine the perspectives of young people in out‐of‐home care as a homogenous population, limiting understandings of the subjective experiences of young people in residential care. This study focused exclusively on young people's lived experiences in Australian therapeutic residential care, utilizing interpretative phenomenological analysis. The young people in this study revealed experiences of peer victimization, ambiguous loss and uncertainty during transitions. These findings suggest that more work is required in order to provide safe and healing environments and experiences for young people in therapeutic residential care. Each individual voice captured in this study offers valuable insights into how residential care practitioners can strengthen practice to enhance protection, engagement, connection with families and leaving care support.

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年轻人治疗性居所护理生活的解释性现象学分析

尽管政府进行了许多询问和建议，但仍存在对虐待和后果不佳的担忧，仍然存在于院舍护理中。住房照料中的年轻人仍然是家庭外照料人口中最脆弱和边缘化的群体。年轻人的声音在研究中也没有得到很好的体现。现有的研究主要集中在服务评估上，其中年轻人的声音被成年人的观点所掩盖。其他研究则检验了年轻人在家庭护理中作为同质人群的观点，从而限制了对年轻人在院所护理中的主观体验的理解。这项研究利用解释性现象学分析专门研究了年轻人在澳大利亚治疗性住宅护理中的生活经验。这项研究的年轻人揭示了同伴受害，模棱两可的丧失和过渡期间的不确定性的经历。这些发现表明，需要更多的工作才能为年轻人提供安全和康复的环境以及住院治疗中的经验。这项研究中捕获的每个人的声音都为住宅护理从业人员如何加强实践以加强保护，参与，与家庭的联系以及离开护理支持提供了宝贵的见解。