The Galtee Clinic

The Galtee Clinic was set up in 2011 by a multidisciplinary group of professionals with a long standing involvement in working with children, adolescents and their families. The underlying ethos of the Galtee Clinic is a commitment to providing top quality assessment, consultation, treatment and educational opportunities to young people in the care system. This is achieved by a consistent focus on applying evidenced based approaches to our work and ensuring that young people and their families get the best quality service in a cost efficient manner. Our approach leans heavily on social pedagogy and attachment theory as providing guiding foundational frameworks. The aim of the Galtee Clinic is to expand the range of therapeutic opportunities for young people in the Irish care system and to explore the applicability of social pedagogy in the Irish context. As experience shows there are a wide range of young people who require assistance from the care system, and correspondingly there needs to be a wide range of settings so that the service can fit with the particular needs of individuals. The Galtee Clinic does not intend to eclipse or replace any existing care structures, but simply to widen the repertoire to support the notion that young people need the right service, delivered in the right manner at the right time.