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From open and straightforward accounts of residential care workers,
The Occupational Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care
Workers shows you how care is handled, not how it should be
handled. This book introduces you to a social reality, a sometimes
very difficult and challenging social reality, as it is viewed by
its participants. If you want to know more about what is actually
going on in residential care and the discontent that workers
frequently experience, this is the book that lays out the facts,
the problems, and the nature of residential youth centers.The
Occupational Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care Workers
broaches the problem of tension between workers and residents and
hopes that bringing the problem out into the open will be a first
step toward a solution. You learn that the very arrangement of
residential care automatically sets up antagonism between the sole
group care worker and his/her wards; residents tend to resist the
inherently coercive efforts of the worker who tries to bring them
through processes of change and socialization. The Occupational
Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care Workers will make
you think about: residential care and conflicts group interaction
career satisfaction and dissatisfaction interpretive sociology of
education and its methodology social controlInterviews with Israeli
residential care workers are presented to help you understand the
circumstances under which residential care providers experience
discontent, or job dissatisfaction. You learn which workers are
most likely to feel discontented and how staff members cope with
the stress and discontent they experience. Youth care workers,
policymakers, child-care staff recruiters, supervisors, and
trainers will find this book sheds much light on the problem of
discontent and the need to make child and youth care facilities
more humane for residents and staff alike. It will also help social
work educators and researchers in sociology, social work, and the
social psychology of education get in touch with what goes on
inside the walls of residential care centers.
From open and straightforward accounts of residential care workers,
The Occupational Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care
Workers shows you how care is handled, not how it should be
handled. This book introduces you to a social reality, a sometimes
very difficult and challenging social reality, as it is viewed by
its participants. If you want to know more about what is actually
going on in residential care and the discontent that workers
frequently experience, this is the book that lays out the facts,
the problems, and the nature of residential youth centers.The
Occupational Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care Workers
broaches the problem of tension between workers and residents and
hopes that bringing the problem out into the open will be a first
step toward a solution. You learn that the very arrangement of
residential care automatically sets up antagonism between the sole
group care worker and his/her wards; residents tend to resist the
inherently coercive efforts of the worker who tries to bring them
through processes of change and socialization. The Occupational
Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care Workers will make
you think about: residential care and conflicts group interaction
career satisfaction and dissatisfaction interpretive sociology of
education and its methodology social controlInterviews with Israeli
residential care workers are presented to help you understand the
circumstances under which residential care providers experience
discontent, or job dissatisfaction. You learn which workers are
most likely to feel discontented and how staff members cope with
the stress and discontent they experience. Youth care workers,
policymakers, child-care staff recruiters, supervisors, and
trainers will find this book sheds much light on the problem of
discontent and the need to make child and youth care facilities
more humane for residents and staff alike. It will also help social
work educators and researchers in sociology, social work, and the
social psychology of education get in touch with what goes on
inside the walls of residential care centers.
The Anthropology of Child and Youth Care Work presents and
illustrates an anthropological model of child and youth care work
and explores the associated benefits of such an approach. Author
Rivka A. Eisikovits'model enhances workers'on-the-job effectiveness
with clients and co-workers and improves intra- and
inter-organizational communication with other human service
providers. This book prepares child and youth care providers,
educators, researchers, administrators, consultants, supervisors,
and organizers to become change-sensitive, process-oriented
observers, analysts, and co-designers of the systems within which
they function and those with which they interact, such as families,
communities, and referral agencies. The model presented in The
Anthropology of Child and Youth Care Work offers readers an organic
continuum between everyday work experience and conceptual practice,
organizing such haphazard events into a systemized body of
knowledge. Although providing specific skills, it is more than a
technology--it is a humanistic worldview from which a humanistic
practice philosophy can be derived. Specific points of this
philosophy that child and youth care professionals learn about
include: the cultural learning theory ethnographic inquiry and
description staff-client relations the sick-role trap microcultural
events in residential settings the relationship between treatment
and education subsystems a heuristic approach to service delivery
family cultural ethnography for cultural
sensitizationEisikovits'anthropologic perspective broadens the
horizons of child and youth care work and equips practitioners to
transcend narrowly drawn organizational boundaries. By presenting
caregivers as cultural translators between their clients and
various decision-making forums, The Anthropology of Child and Youth
Care Work prepares them to face the challenges of a dynamic
emergent profession and helps them perform successfully in a
rapidly changing social context that requires constant assessment
of needs and evaluation of performance.
This seminal book in the literature of child protective services
stimulates critical thinking and informed discussion for those
professionals and educators concerned with the quality of
children's protective services. The first book of its kind to
present scholarly reports on false allegations, Assessing Child
Maltreatment Reports tackles the age-old problem of deciding which
reports, verbal or written, represent truth and which represent
falsehood. When one deals with accusations in the area of child
maltreatment, special problems are posed. This vital resource
brings home the complexity and seriousness of confronting the need
to separate true reports from false reports. Given the serious
consequences of reports of maltreatment, determining the accuracy
or inaccuracy of such reports is of major critical importance to
all concerned and the parents, children, and professionals directly
involved. This book deals effectively and practically with the
everyday work of assessing the validity and reliability of
maltreatment reports and guides professionals through rough waters
of finding truth with helpful research.This courageous book
provides hope for establishing a deeper understanding of the broad
system of child protection and consequently, enables professionals
to better handle individual crises and cases. Containing a range of
chapters--authored by leading academic researchers and
practitioners in child welfare services in the United States--which
examine the policy and practice issues related to false allegations
of child abuse and neglect, this volume provides guideposts for
further research and discussion. College and university students in
child welfare and related programs, human service practitioners
working in child protective and welfare services, and the larger
public--both parents and professionals working with children--who
have an interest in this important issue, will find Assessing Child
Maltreatment Reports a compassionate approach to a sensitive issue.
A recognized leader in the professional development of the child
and youth care field presents--in this single volume--a collection
of his work related to group care work with children and youth.
Henry Maier shares his observations about human development in the
group care context, the perceptions of children and youth, the
environments in which we work with them, the role of the worker,
and the preparation of child and youth care workers. Dr. Maier's
practical approaches reflect the most recent research and thinking
in human development. This book is a practical text for courses in
the child and youth field, as well as a useful handbook for child
and youth caseworkers already on the job.BACKCOVER COPYIn what way
can group care--non-familial living--assure children a
developmental progress similar to that of children growing up
within regular family care settings? In his practical new text,
Henry Maier--one of the most vibrant, creative, and humane figures
in child and youth care work today--answers that question for child
care professionals using a developmental perspective in his
approach to residential group care. He focuses on the developmental
requirements of children and adolescents in relation to the care
they receive while they are in no-familial, group living situations
and also highlights training for the caregivers in order that they
can effectively provide the kind of caring involvement that
children and youth require. "The real contribution of this book . .
. is that it cuts throught the confusion of competing values and
competing points of view to focus on the care at the heart of child
care work," attests Richard W. Small, PhD, Executive Director of
the Walker Home and School, Needham, Massachusetts (from the
Preface).
Residential Education as an Option for At-Risk Youth explores
recent residential programs in Israel, draws comparisons with their
European counterparts, and recommends practical approaches for the
revitalization of such programs in the United States. This volume
refutes the conventional professional "wisdom" in the United States
that residential group care programs for children and youth are
intrinsically flawed and counterproductive. Instead, it delivers
effective models for the implementation of effective residential
services. The editors and authors demonstrate the growing need for
residential programs, given the overburdened family foster care
resources, swelling numbers of "zero-parent" families, and homeless
youth. Though the United States helped launch and develop
residential services in Europe in the aftermath of World War II and
has produced many excellent thinkers in the domain of quality
residential group care, American programs have languished in recent
decades. This book is designed to accelerate and facilitate
progress in revamping and establishing excellent residential group
care. The authors examine residential education as a
developmentally based alternative to the more clinically and
correctionally oriented programs for marginal children and youth
dominating this field in the United States.The authors present
their material in the context of appropriate theoretical
principles, yet in practical ways that will permit program
developers and managers to implement it effectively. Some of the
specific areas chapters discuss are: exemplary Israeli programs as
observed by visiting American professional in social work and
allied fields important program variables and the cultural
influences that may affect them African American experience for
such programs a conceptual model for building successful
residential education programs key organizational and management
considerationsResidential Education as an Option for At-Risk Youth
serves as a vital resource for ambitious program developers and
managers wishing to reconceptualize and enrich their programs. It
will also benefit advanced students, practitioners, and decision
makers who have had, heretofore, few resources to rely on when
seeking to promote more effective programs for socially marginal
children and youth.
In this readable book, Zvi Levy, Hadassim's Director, provides a
careful account of how, over time, he and others have shaped a
community to foster health, identity, and competence in distressed
young people. Canadian WIZO (Women's International Zionist
Organization) Hadassim is a thriving youth village in Israel that
is home for 500 young people and a day educational program for an
additional 1,000. Negotiating Positive Identity in a Residential
Group Care Community illustrates the organizational expression of a
developmental idea, in this case Erik Erikson's identity
development theory, to show how an environment can be created to
cope with disrupted development processes among children and
adolescents. The book describes an ongoing experiment that started
fifteen years ago and has since been recognized as an outstanding
success. The basic information and ideas expressed by Levy can be
used to improve the effectiveness of any framework through which
adolescents pass during the stages of development, including
schools, community centers, and normal families. Some of the main
topics discussed in this volume are: principles for running a
multicultural facility organization of the daily life of a large
residential setting major parameters in a residential setting as
derived from the theories of Erik Erikson on adolescence as a
developmental stage comprehensive care for youth in transition and
adolescents suffering from aggravated identity crisesAll child and
youth care workers and program administrators can learn much from
Levy's account of Hadassim. Negotiating Positive Identity in a
Residential Group Care Community will be disturbing to many who
adhere to the current tenets of good management and child care
practice; readers need to be prepared to have many assumptions and
beliefs challenged. The book emphasizes the distress of immigrant
and troubled urban youth as an aggravated identity crisis, the
cause of which needs to be treated before the symptom. This volume
is of interest to theoreticians, practitioners, and policymakers in
the fields of education, child and youth care, and developmental
psychology, as well as scholars in Erikson's theories. It is also
useful in courses which study education in Israel or that seek
solutions to problems such as homeless youth in the Third
World.Negotiating Positive Identity in a Residential Group Care
Community stresses that: The answer to deprivation is not the
provision of efficient services, but an environment and an approach
that encourages adolescents to see themselves as active
participants and not as patients or passive inmates. Residential
settings for children and adolescents can successfully handle large
numbers and, in fact, larger numbers can offer some definite
advantages. The best way to help children develop into autonomous
adults is to give them responsibility for their own choices within
the framework of a goal-oriented community.
Primarily intended for the professional child and youth care
worker, this new book challenges the most basic methods and beliefs
of contemporary practice. Written in the form of a novel, the
central issues of child care are brought to life through the
subjective experiences of a young practitioner. Each issue and
experience is analyzed through the dialogues between the
practitioner and his supervisor. As the story unfolds, the reader
is invited to reconsider many of the most fundamental and
time-tested assumptions that lie at the heart of child and youth
care. One by one, the layers of professionalism are peeled back to
reveal the essence of it all--the practitioner's own sense of self.
This results in the inevitable conclusion that personal and
professional development are inextricably interrelated. From this
perspective, it becomes clear how current trends in training and
practice often provide a tragic formula for methods that focus upon
the control of the youngster and result in the breakdown of
relationships and the burnout of the practitioner.Being in Child
Care: A Journey Into Self uses the experiences of everyday life to
establish themes and draw conclusions. As the story moves from the
drama and minutiae of life in a small residential treatment program
to the broadest existential questions, the reader will explore his
or her own personal experience. Since it can be understood at many
different levels, this book will appeal to the student as much as
to the seasoned practitioner. (Fewster says parents can read it
too.)
Here are the information, ideas, and inspiration that will help
child care workers in their daily struggle to provide better care
for children, youth, and families. Perspectives in Professional
Child and Youth Care is a much-needed sourcebook of readings on the
current state of the art of professional child and youth care in
North America. Some of the leading practitioners, academicians,
researchers, and administrators provide a "child care perspective,"
writing about what they--on the front lines--perceive as the most
pressing issues and significant topics in the field today,
including the nature of child and youth care, current issues in
education and training, therapeutic program issues, key support
functions in child and youth programs, the changing work
environment and new roles, and developing professionalism in the
field of child and youth care. This enormously insightful book will
be valuable for use in academic courses and training workshops, as
well as for individual child and youth care professionals and
practitioners from related disciplines.
Primarily intended for the professional child and youth care
worker, this new book challenges the most basic methods and beliefs
of contemporary practice. Written in the form of a novel, the
central issues of child care are brought to life through the
subjective experiences of a young practitioner. Each issue and
experience is analyzed through the dialogues between the
practitioner and his supervisor. As the story unfolds, the reader
is invited to reconsider many of the most fundamental and
time-tested assumptions that lie at the heart of child and youth
care. One by one, the layers of professionalism are peeled back to
reveal the essence of it all--the practitioner's own sense of self.
This results in the inevitable conclusion that personal and
professional development are inextricably interrelated. From this
perspective, it becomes clear how current trends in training and
practice often provide a tragic formula for methods that focus upon
the control of the youngster and result in the breakdown of
relationships and the burnout of the practitioner.Being in Child
Care: A Journey Into Self uses the experiences of everyday life to
establish themes and draw conclusions. As the story moves from the
drama and minutiae of life in a small residential treatment program
to the broadest existential questions, the reader will explore his
or her own personal experience. Since it can be understood at many
different levels, this book will appeal to the student as much as
to the seasoned practitioner. (Fewster says parents can read it
too.)
Helping Delinquents Change sets before itself a formidable
task--that of removing the mystery from the understanding of
delinquent behavior. Jerome Stumphauzer offers direct, useful means
to work toward altering delinquent behavior. Abandoning an
orientation to delinquency that focuses on punishment or medical
models, Stumphauzer presents a view of delinquency that emphasizes
the learning of adaptive, prosocial behavior, and provides to the
youths themselves an opportunity to become engaged in selecting
their own goals and methods for changing their behavior. The
nondelinquent is presented as an example from whom to learn. The
text is nontechnical and useful for students and practitioners
alike. The book in intended expressly for those who work directly
with delinquents--counselors, teachers, therapists, probation
officers, those working in junvenile corrections, and for students
of delinquent behavior in psychology, sociology, criminology, and
education. Tables, diagrams, references, and indices supplement the
text. Helping Delinquents Change is available for classroom
adoption. Undergraduate and graduate students in criminology,
psychology, counseling, education, and sociology are the primary
audience. The book is particularly well-suited as a training manual
or supplementary text and an instructor's manual is included.
This seminal book in the literature of child protective services
stimulates critical thinking and informed discussion for those
professionals and educators concerned with the quality of
children's protective services. The first book of its kind to
present scholarly reports on false allegations, Assessing Child
Maltreatment Reports tackles the age-old problem of deciding which
reports, verbal or written, represent truth and which represent
falsehood. When one deals with accusations in the area of child
maltreatment, special problems are posed. This vital resource
brings home the complexity and seriousness of confronting the need
to separate true reports from false reports. Given the serious
consequences of reports of maltreatment, determining the accuracy
or inaccuracy of such reports is of major critical importance to
all concerned and the parents, children, and professionals directly
involved. This book deals effectively and practically with the
everyday work of assessing the validity and reliability of
maltreatment reports and guides professionals through rough waters
of finding truth with helpful research.This courageous book
provides hope for establishing a deeper understanding of the broad
system of child protection and consequently, enables professionals
to better handle individual crises and cases. Containing a range of
chapters--authored by leading academic researchers and
practitioners in child welfare services in the United States--which
examine the policy and practice issues related to false allegations
of child abuse and neglect, this volume provides guideposts for
further research and discussion. College and university students in
child welfare and related programs, human service practitioners
working in child protective and welfare services, and the larger
public--both parents and professionals working with children--who
have an interest in this important issue, will find Assessing Child
Maltreatment Reports a compassionate approach to a sensitive issue.
At last, here is a compassionate, humane, and informative volume on
the most unique and vulnerable group in our society today--homeless
children. Homeless Children: The Watchers and the Waiters is unique
because it offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding
the children and the enormously complicated causes of and solutions
to their tragedy. The contributing authors discuss homeless
children and the resolution of the problem, as well as the
resulting policy and practice implications.From this single source
of current research, policy, and practice information, you will
better understand the circumstances of homelessness. You will also
discover the impact of homelessness on children--the psychological
effects on children s development and behavior, the weakening of
mother/child relationships, and the declining status of their
physical health. Experts also describe the difficulties created by
underfunded, poorly managed, and politically unpopular programs for
homeless children, underscoring the need for a national policy to
address the problem.Homeless Children: The Watchers and the Waiters
is a thought-provoking and insightful book that must be read by
professionals who work in human service agencies, sociologists,
psychologists, health care workers, child care workers, teachers,
and clergy. Policymakers, government officials, and child advocates
must also read this masterful volume.
This timely book demonstrates the value and relevance of
family-oriented programs in dealing with problems experienced by
children and adolescents. Experts provide salient guidelines and
recommendations for involving the family in the diagnosis and
treatment of problems. In addition to providing current reviews of
research, this practical volume describes various skill-building
programs and therapeutic interventions that can be used in a
variety of program and treatment settings. Designed for helping
professionals who work with children and youth, Family Perspectives
in Child and Youth Services will be most valuable for practitioners
in social work, psychology, psychiatry, and child development.
One of the most complete sources of information on the development
of social skills training with youth, this useful volume integrates
current research and practice. Practitioners interested in
establishing or revising current social service delivery programs
for children and adolescents will discover valuable conceptual and
programmatic ideas.
Here are the information, ideas, and inspiration that will help
child care workers in their daily struggle to provide better care
for children, youth, and families. Perspectives in Professional
Child and Youth Care is a much-needed sourcebook of readings on the
current state of the art of professional child and youth care in
North America. Some of the leading practitioners, academicians,
researchers, and administrators provide a "child care perspective,"
writing about what they--on the front lines--perceive as the most
pressing issues and significant topics in the field today,
including the nature of child and youth care, current issues in
education and training, therapeutic program issues, key support
functions in child and youth programs, the changing work
environment and new roles, and developing professionalism in the
field of child and youth care. This enormously insightful book will
be valuable for use in academic courses and training workshops, as
well as for individual child and youth care professionals and
practitioners from related disciplines.
The Anthropology of Child and Youth Care Work presents and
illustrates an anthropological model of child and youth care work
and explores the associated benefits of such an approach. Author
Rivka A. Eisikovits'model enhances workers'on-the-job effectiveness
with clients and co-workers and improves intra- and
inter-organizational communication with other human service
providers. This book prepares child and youth care providers,
educators, researchers, administrators, consultants, supervisors,
and organizers to become change-sensitive, process-oriented
observers, analysts, and co-designers of the systems within which
they function and those with which they interact, such as families,
communities, and referral agencies. The model presented in The
Anthropology of Child and Youth Care Work offers readers an organic
continuum between everyday work experience and conceptual practice,
organizing such haphazard events into a systemized body of
knowledge. Although providing specific skills, it is more than a
technology--it is a humanistic worldview from which a humanistic
practice philosophy can be derived. Specific points of this
philosophy that child and youth care professionals learn about
include: the cultural learning theory ethnographic inquiry and
description staff-client relations the sick-role trap microcultural
events in residential settings the relationship between treatment
and education subsystems a heuristic approach to service delivery
family cultural ethnography for cultural
sensitizationEisikovits'anthropologic perspective broadens the
horizons of child and youth care work and equips practitioners to
transcend narrowly drawn organizational boundaries. By presenting
caregivers as cultural translators between their clients and
various decision-making forums, The Anthropology of Child and Youth
Care Work prepares them to face the challenges of a dynamic
emergent profession and helps them perform successfully in a
rapidly changing social context that requires constant assessment
of needs and evaluation of performance.
A recognized leader in the professional development of the child
and youth care field presents--in this single volume--a collection
of his work related to group care work with children and youth.
Henry Maier shares his observations about human development in the
group care context, the perceptions of children and youth, the
environments in which we work with them, the role of the worker,
and the preparation of child and youth care workers. Dr. Maier s
practical approaches reflect the most recent research and thinking
in human development. This book is a practical text for courses in
the child and youth field, as well as a useful handbook for child
and youth caseworkers already on the job. BACKCOVER COPY In what
way can group care--non-familial living--assure children a
developmental progress similar to that of children growing up
within regular family care settings? In his practical new text,
Henry Maier--one of the most vibrant, creative, and humane figures
in child and youth care work today--answers that question for child
care professionals using a developmental perspective in his
approach to residential group care. He focuses on the developmental
requirements of children and adolescents in relation to the care
they receive while they are in no-familial, group living situations
and also highlights training for the caregivers in order that they
can effectively provide the kind of caring involvement that
children and youth require. "The real contribution of this book . .
. is that it cuts throught the confusion of competing values and
competing points of view to focus on the care at the heart of child
care work," attests Richard W. Small, PhD, Executive Director of
the Walker Home and School, Needham, Massachusetts (from the
Preface).
Residential Education as an Option for At-Risk Youth explores
recent residential programs in Israel, draws comparisons with their
European counterparts, and recommends practical approaches for the
revitalization of such programs in the United States. This volume
refutes the conventional professional "wisdom" in the United States
that residential group care programs for children and youth are
intrinsically flawed and counterproductive. Instead, it delivers
effective models for the implementation of effective residential
services. The editors and authors demonstrate the growing need for
residential programs, given the overburdened family foster care
resources, swelling numbers of "zero-parent" families, and homeless
youth. Though the United States helped launch and develop
residential services in Europe in the aftermath of World War II and
has produced many excellent thinkers in the domain of quality
residential group care, American programs have languished in recent
decades. This book is designed to accelerate and facilitate
progress in revamping and establishing excellent residential group
care. The authors examine residential education as a
developmentally based alternative to the more clinically and
correctionally oriented programs for marginal children and youth
dominating this field in the United States.The authors present
their material in the context of appropriate theoretical
principles, yet in practical ways that will permit program
developers and managers to implement it effectively. Some of the
specific areas chapters discuss are: exemplary Israeli programs as
observed by visiting American professional in social work and
allied fields important program variables and the cultural
influences that may affect them African American experience for
such programs a conceptual model for building successful
residential education programs key organizational and management
considerationsResidential Education as an Option for At-Risk Youth
serves as a vital resource for ambitious program developers and
managers wishing to reconceptualize and enrich their programs. It
will also benefit advanced students, practitioners, and decision
makers who have had, heretofore, few resources to rely on when
seeking to promote more effective programs for socially marginal
children and youth.
In this readable book, Zvi Levy, Hadassim s Director, provides a
careful account of how, over time, he and others have shaped a
community to foster health, identity, and competence in distressed
young people. Canadian WIZO (Women s International Zionist
Organization) Hadassim is a thriving youth village in Israel that
is home for 500 young people and a day educational program for an
additional 1,000. Negotiating Positive Identity in a Residential
Group Care Community illustrates the organizational expression of a
developmental idea, in this case Erik Erikson s identity
development theory, to show how an environment can be created to
cope with disrupted development processes among children and
adolescents. The book describes an ongoing experiment that started
fifteen years ago and has since been recognized as an outstanding
success. The basic information and ideas expressed by Levy can be
used to improve the effectiveness of any framework through which
adolescents pass during the stages of development, including
schools, community centers, and normal families. Some of the main
topics discussed in this volume are: principles for running a
multicultural facility organization of the daily life of a large
residential setting major parameters in a residential setting as
derived from the theories of Erik Erikson on adolescence as a
developmental stage comprehensive care for youth in transition and
adolescents suffering from aggravated identity crisesAll child and
youth care workers and program administrators can learn much from
Levy s account of Hadassim. Negotiating Positive Identity in a
Residential Group Care Community will be disturbing to many who
adhere to the current tenets of good management and child care
practice; readers need to be prepared to have many assumptions and
beliefs challenged. The book emphasizes the distress of immigrant
and troubled urban youth as an aggravated identity crisis, the
cause of which needs to be treated before the symptom. This volume
is of interest to theoreticians, practitioners, and policymakers in
the fields of education, child and youth care, and developmental
psychology, as well as scholars in Erikson s theories. It is also
useful in courses which study education in Israel or that seek
solutions to problems such as homeless youth in the Third
World.Negotiating Positive Identity in a Residential Group Care
Community stresses that: The answer to deprivation is not the
provision of efficient services, but an environment and an approach
that encourages adolescents to see themselves as active
participants and not as patients or passive inmates. Residential
settings for children and adolescents can successfully handle large
numbers and, in fact, larger numbers can offer some definite
advantages. The best way to help children develop into autonomous
adults is to give them responsibility for their own choices within
the framework of a goal-oriented community.
Helping Delinquents Change sets before itself a formidable
task--that of removing the mystery from the understanding of
delinquent behavior. Jerome Stumphauzer offers direct, useful means
to work toward altering delinquent behavior. Abandoning an
orientation to delinquency that focuses on punishment or medical
models, Stumphauzer presents a view of delinquency that emphasizes
the learning of adaptive, prosocial behavior, and provides to the
youths themselves an opportunity to become engaged in selecting
their own goals and methods for changing their behavior. The
nondelinquent is presented as an example from whom to learn. The
text is nontechnical and useful for students and practitioners
alike. The book in intended expressly for those who work directly
with delinquents--counselors, teachers, therapists, probation
officers, those working in junvenile corrections, and for students
of delinquent behavior in psychology, sociology, criminology, and
education. Tables, diagrams, references, and indices supplement the
text. Helping Delinquents Change is available for classroom
adoption. Undergraduate and graduate students in criminology,
psychology, counseling, education, and sociology are the primary
audience. The book is particularly well-suited as a training manual
or supplementary text and an instructor's manual is included.
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