Residential treatment of emotionally disturbed children a descriptive study / Joseph H. Reid, Helen R. Hagan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reid, Joseph H., author.

Hagan, Helen R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Institutional care--United States.

Children.

Child psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 313 pages)

Other Title:

Residential treatment of emotionally disturbed children

Place of Publication:

New York : Child Welfare League of America, 1952.

Summary:

In the long search for more effective methods of treating children with personality disturbances specialized institutions have developed, loosely described under the general term, "residential treatment." They have one thing in common--the development of a total approach to therapy. Individual psychotherapy with the child and his parents, a therapeutically designed living experience and remedial education are all seen as parts of a whole. These treatment institutions, though diverse in their philosophy, origin and auspices, all result from attempts to find more successful ways of helping disturbed children. They have been established to provide treatment for the child for whom the child guidance clinics, foster care agencies, family agencies, and corrective institutions have been unable to provide adequate help. In this study we have attempted to describe 12 organizations whose purpose is the treatment of children with severe personality disorders. These specialized institutions have developed for the most part independent of each other and under the leadership of several professions and different types of organizations. From this description of the operation of 12 such organizations, it is hoped the reader may have a base from which to evaluate and better understand clinical studies and reports from residential treatment centers. Seven of the 12 organizations can be considered medical programs and are administered by physicians. Five are social agency programs, administered by social workers.

Contents:

Arthur Brisbane Treatment Center

Bellefaire

Child Guidance Home of Cincinnati

Children's Service Center of Wyoming Valley

Emma Pendleton Bradley Home

Evanston Children's Home of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society

Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls School

Jewish Children's Bureau of Chicago

Langley Porter Clinic, Children's In-Patient Service

Neuropsychiatric Institute of the University of Michigan, Children's Service

Ryther Child Center

The Southard School.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.