Successful Group Care: Explorations in the Powerful Environment
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. GROUP CARE: A GENERAL AND AFFIRMATIVE VIEW -- 1. Some Theoretical Observations on Group Care -- II. HISTORY, IDEOLOGY, POLITICS, AND OTHER RELEVANCIES -- 2. Institutional Care and Placing-Out: The Place of Each in the Care of Dependent Children -- 3. Political Orientation, Social Reality, and Child Welfare -- 4. Boarding Schools in the U.S.S.R. -- 5. When the State Brings Up the Child -- 6. Salutary Effects of Maternal Separation -- 7. Group Care of Children: The Problem of Legitimacy -- Additional Reading -- III. YOUNG CHILDREN IN GROUP CARE -- 8. Hospitalism -- 9. The Young Adult Adjustment of Twenty Wartime Residential Nursery Children -- 10. Adult Status of Children with Contrasting Early Life Experiences -- 11. Young Children in Institutions: Some Additional Evidence -- Additional Reading -- IV. ADOLESCENTS IN GROUP CARE -- 12. Maturity in the High School Seminarian: An Empirical Approach -- 13. Reaction to Social Pressure from Adults Versus Peers among Soviet Day School and Boarding School Pupils in the Perspective of an American Sample -- 14. Group Care: Friend or Foe? -- 15. One Kibbutz as Foster Mother: Maimonides Applied -- Additional Reading -- V. MELIORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS -- 16. Evaluation of the Educational Process in Mechinot -- 17. Helping Disturbed Children: Psychological and Ecological Strategies -- 18. The Treatment Group Technique -- Additional Reading -- VI. TWO CHALLENGING PROPOSALS -- 19. Behavior Modification in Total Institutions -- 20. On the Making of New Men: Some Extrapolations from Research -- Additional Reading -- Bibliography -- Index