Thing 7 - Finding Resources
Find resources on the internet is easy, just type a word into Google and a myriad of information is at your fingertips to sift through.Ā I have used Google many times and have come to realise that too much is not necessarily a good thing.Ā Using advanced search, however, enables you to filter your results.Ā I think the best way to learn this process is to play with it, and of course it becomes easier the more you do it.
I already had an SSKS and Open Athens account created so this made āThing 7ā³ relatively straightforward.Ā I have also completed a degree online and used many libraries and searches to find information.Ā I think I have said this in a previous blog, the difficulty for me is staying focused as I tend to find things of interest and go of on a million different tangents.
For this exercise I searched for aggression in childrens residential and came up with Client Violence Against Youth Care Workers: Findings of an Exploratory Study of Workforce Issues in Residential Treatment.Ā I chose to read this one as it was up to date and seemed relevant.Ā Of course anything in this field is relevant as I work in Childrens Residential and all learning is good in my book.Ā On Google I did a different search regarding relationships in childrens residential and this was one of the first pages I found Attachment Theory and Residential Treatment:A Study of Staff -Client Relationships.Ā Again this is totally relevant to my field of work.Ā This was a great read and I found it really easy to relate with what was being said.Ā
IĀ am aware that for academic writing you need to select accurate information and this may not necessarily be what you find in a quick Google search, however, it does provide links to information.Ā For the above resource if I wanted to use it in a piece of writing I would look for it from a relevant published book or journal, where I could be more confident of its academic credibility.












