Challenging Conventional Wisdom About Residential Care for Children - A Good Place to Grow

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Challenging the Conventional Wisdom. 2.Not A Good Place to Grow? 3.Reading the Residential Care Research Literature. 4.What Explains the Hostility toward Residential Care? 5.Explorations of the Effectiveness of Residential Care. 6.Do We Know What Quality Residential Care Is? 7.Working Models of Residential Care in Children’s Homes. 8.A Good Place to Grow.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Bruce B. Henderson is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Western Carolina University. He received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development and is a member of the Society for Research in Child Development. He has published widely on children’s curiosity, memory development, and higher education.

Zusammenfassung

Is residential care 'inherently harmful'? This book argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong and is, itself, harmful to a significant number of children and youth.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Bruce B. Henderson
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032564739
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3256473-9
• Seiten: 182
• Serie: Routledge Advances in Social Work
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Allgemeines, Lexika; MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Personal & public health, Educational psychology, Social Work, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Pre-school & kindergarten, Personal and public health / health education, Pre-school and kindergarten