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

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Bruce B. Henderson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032564784
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3256478-4
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; 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