The Child and the Institution : A Study of Deprivation and Recovery / Betty Flint.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flint, Betty, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Institutional care.

Children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

It has long been believed that children who must spend much of their lives in institutions inevitably develop personality deficiencies that make them liabilities to society. This book represents the first portion of a longitudinal study of the children of the Neil McNeil Home from infancy into adulthood. The study was begun in 1957 with a twofold purpose: first, to provide a therapeutic environment for children who had already suffered mental and emotional damage from an institutional milieu; and second, to devise methods of institutional care that would conduce to the normal development of children deprived of the usual supports of family relationships. The case histories presented here are interesting documents in themselves, but the book is more than a study of individual cases. It presents a detailed description of the process of creating in a child-care institution something of the atmosphere of a normal home. The conclusions reached depart in significant ways from former studies of institutionalized children, and will be of great importance and usefulness both to those who work professionally with children and to those concerned with the social future of children raised outside the family unit. The book was sponsored by the Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction

PART ONE. THE BEGINNING

1. Research

2. Help through Play

3. Recommendations to the Board

PART TWO. PROGRAMME THERAPY

4. Aims, Goals, and Changes

5. The Staff

6. Health, Food, and Daily Care

7. The Many Functions of Play

8. The Volunteers

9. Progress

PART THREE. THE REWARDS

10. Gary

11. Paddy

12. Mindy

13. Louise

14. Harry

PART FOUR. CONCLUSIONS

15. The Cost of Care and the Saving to the Community

16. Some Thoughts on Institutional Care

APPENDICES

Infant Security Scale

Pre-school Mental Health Assessment Scale

Staff Records and Instructions

Volunteer Records and Instructions

References

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

ISBN:

9781487597108

148759710X

9781487595395

1487595395

OCLC:

1091661941