ABSTRACT

This article is about using data from the Strengths and Difficulties questionnaire to develop a house burden score as a way of measuring the workload of a therapeutic residential care program. The development of the score ensures that residential placement selection is based on empirical data rather than on the often-used criteria of ‘where is there a vacancy?’ It may also curb comments by inexperienced staff such as ‘our house has the most difficult young people, whereas yours are easy’. The aim of the score is to ensure that a residential program is not overburdened with too many children and young people with complex emotional and behavioral difficulties to the extent that this result is a sub-standard service for all young people.

摘要

本文是关于使用优势和困难问卷中的数据来制定房屋负担评分，作为衡量治疗性住宿护理计划工作量的一种方式。分数的发展确保住宅安置选择基于经验数据而不是经常使用的“哪里有空房？”的标准。它还可以抑制缺乏经验的员工的评论，例如“我们家的年轻人最难相处，而你的人很容易”。评分的目的是确保住宿计划不会因过多具有复杂情绪和行为困难的儿童和年轻人而负担过重，以至于该结果对所有年轻人来说都是不合标准的服务。