Successful Group Care

Explorations in the Powerful Environment

Martin Wolins

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781138533677
• eBook ISBN: 9781351487597
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Social Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Edited by one of the leading authorities in international child care, this sourcebook provides valuable insights from international experiments in group child care. The selections, written by distinguished international child care experts, explore a broad range of successful group care settings in Austria, Great Britain, Israel, Mexico, Poland, the Soviet Union, the United States and Yugoslavia. Much of the material was previously unknown to American professionals, at the time of the original publication, who, for the most part, held group care in disrepute. Today, there is a growing interest in group programs for children of various ages and in settings ranging from day care programs to institutions and schools of various types.

Successful Group Care is divided into six major parts. The first of which is a general review of successful group care, drawing upon material that appears later in the book. Subsequent sections present historical and philosophical issues in group care, including boarding schools in the former Soviet Union and the Israeli Kibbutz. Research studies analyzing the negative and positive effects of group care for young children and several teenage group environments are discussed, particularly with regard to their peer effect on values and moral character. The project also deals with group care of disturbed children. The book ends with the most complete bibliography on the subject, including some of the most significant works in Polish, Russian, German, and Hebrew.

This book will be invaluable to all those interested in and involved in group child care: social workers, particularly in child welfare; developmental child psychologists; early childhood educators; child psychiatrists; family sociologists; child care workers; day care personnel; and students in social work courses in childhood and adolescence, early childhood education, developmental psychology, and in training courses for day care personnel and child care work

Name Index

Achiram, E., 79, 432

Acker, L. E., 439

Adams, F., 415

Adelson, J., 17, 420

Adler, A., 33n4, 411

Adler, H., 321, 322, 411

Adorno, T. W., 13, 411

Afanasenko, E. I., 79, 80, 89, 92, 96, 98n5, 121, 122, 123, 126, 411, 424, 431, 436, 437

Ainsworth, M. D., 12, 158, 411, 415

Allerhand, M. E., 411

Allinsmith, W., 422

Allport, G. W., 242, 411

Alon, M., 119, 411

Alpert, A., 411

Alpert, R., 347, 350, 361, 397, 399, 437

Alt, E., 412

Alt, H., 411, 412

Alterman, C., 34n15, 412

Ambler, E., 9, 83n8, 290n8, 412

Amir, Y., 293, 299, 412

Anderson, A. R., 16, 18, 30, 432

Anderson, J. W., 412

Andrews, R. G., 412

Anthony, A., 110, 443

Anthony, E. J., 412

Arad, R., 29, 435

Arieti, S., 432

Arnold, M. B., 240-41, 412

Arthur, G. A., 412

Asch, S. E., 16, 412

Asperger, H., 412

Atkinson, J. W., 412

Atthowe, J. M., Jr., 370, 371, 387, 412

Ausubel, D. P., 352, 412

Axel, R., 64

Ayllon, T., 34n17, 369, 370, 376, 377, 380, 385, 386, 409, 412, 425

Azrin, N. H., 35n, 370, 376, 377, 381, 385, 386, 390n5, 409, 412

Baer, D. M., 367, 369, 376, 377, 383, 413, 423, 425, 437

Bailey, J. R., 383, 415

Bailey, J. S., 370, 413

Baird, F., 271, 275, 420

Bakwin, H., 134, 135, 413

Bales, R. F., 434

Bandura, A., 34n11, 34n17, 351, 376, 377, 378, 380, 385, 389, 390n2, 390n6, 397, 398, 399, 409, 413

Banhegyi, F., 263

Barker, R. ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• I. GROUP CARE: A GENERAL AND AFFIRMATIVE VIEW
• II. HISTORY, IDEOLOGY, POLITICS, AND OTHER RELEVANCIES
• III. YOUNG CHILDREN IN GROUP CARE
• IV. ADOLESCENTS IN GROUP CARE
• V. MELIORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS
• VI. TWO CHALLENGING PROPOSALS
• Bibliography
• Index