a history of caring for America's troubled children /
First Statement of Responsibility
Deborah Blythe Doroshow.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2019.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
335 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, portraits ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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O pioneers! -- Interlude: the road to residential -- Disturbed children, disturbing children -- Playing by ear -- Interlude: therapeutics in residential treatment -- The special relationship -- A new home -- Building the normal child -- Interlude: homeward bound -- The breakdown of emotional disturbance -- Discarded children: the last thirty years in child mental health.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Emotionally Disturbed is the first work to examine not only the history of residential treatment but also the history of seriously mentally ill children in the United States. As residential treatment centers emerged as new spaces with a fresh therapeutic perspective, a new kind of person became visible-the emotionally disturbed child. Residential treatment centers and the people who worked there built physical and conceptual structures that identified a population of children who were alike in distinctive ways. Emotional disturbance became a diagnosis, a policy problem, and a statement about the troubled state of postwar society. But in the late twentieth century, Americans went from pouring private and public funds into the care of troubled children to abandoning them almost completely. Charting the decline of residential treatment centers in favor of domestic care-based models in the 1980s and 1990s, this history is a must-read for those wishing to understand how our current child mental health system came to be." -- Publisher's description