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The editors of this volume are committed to the philosophy of treating emotionally disturbed children in the life milieu
List of contents
Dialogue; Introduction; 2: Current Issues and Problems in Residential Treatment for Emotionally Disturbed Children; Readings; Introduction; I: What Is Milieu Therapy?; 1: Introduction to New Staff; 2: The Concept of a "Therapeutic Milieu"; 3: A Therapeutic Milieu; 4: Changing Delinquent Subcultures: A Social-Psychological Approach; 5: Developing a Unified Theory of Residential Treatment; II: Individual Treatment in a Therapeutic Milieu; 6: Helping Children Learn to Deal with Sadness; 7: The Role of Psychotherapy in Residential Treatment; 8: Some Aspects of Psychotherapy in a Residential Treatment Center; 9: The Concept of "Parental Force"; 10: Some Aspects of Residential Casework with Children; III: Group Treatment in a Therapeutic Milieu; 11: The Social Group Work Method and Residential Treatment; 12: The Therapeutic Ingredients in the Group Work Program In a Residential Treatment Center for Children; 13: The Role of the Group in Residential Treatment; 14: Group Therapy and Casework with Ego-Disturbed Children; 15: Summer Camping in the Treatment of Ego-Defective Children; IV: The Nature of Cottage Life and Strategies for Therapeutic Intervention; 16: Physical Illness in the Residential Treatment Center; 17: Observations on the Loss of a Housemother; 18: Characteristics and Resolution of Scapegoating; 19: The Life-Space Interview; 20: Life-Space Management of Behavioral Crises; V: Staffing and Personnel in a Therapeutic Milieu; 21: The Child Care Worker; 22: The Parental Figures in Residential Treatment; 23: Communication and Cottage Parent Supervision in a Residential Treatment Center; 24: How Child Care Workers Are Trained in Europe; 25: Training Child Care Staff: Pitfalls and Promises; VI: The Place of Activities in a Therapeutic Milieu; 26: Prestructuring Group Content; 27: The Impact of Game Ingredients on Children's Play Behavior; 28: Spontaneous Play in Resolution of Problems: A Brief Example; 29: Therapeutic Recreation for Aggressive Children in Residential Treatment; 30: Pets: A Special Technique in Child Psychotherapy; VII: Working with the Families; 31: Parent-Child Separation: Its Significance to Parents; 32: The Separation Phenomenon in Residential Treatment; 33: The Study and Treatment of Families that Produce Multiple Acting-Out Boys; 34: Disturbed Families and Conjoint Family Counseling; 35: Group Therapy with Parents of Children in a Residential Treatment Center
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Albert E. Trieschman
Summary
The editors of this volume are committed to the philosophy of treating emotionally disturbed children in the life milieu
