Jerome Beker, Doug Magnuson

Residential Education as an Option for At-Risk Youth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Residential Education as an Option for At-Risk Youth explores 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781138985278
• ISBN-10: 1138985279
• Artikelnr.: 49778773

Autorenporträt

Jerome Beker, Douglas Magnuson

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
* Introduction
* Residential Education as an Option for At-Risk Youth: Learning From
the Israeli Experience
* The Convergence of the Israeli and the European Experience:
Implications for Group Care Services in the United States
* Some Implications of the African-American Experience for the
Development of Residential Education in the United States
* Conceptual Foundations of Developmentally Oriented Residential
Education: A Holistic Framework for Group Care That Works
* Human Development Imperatives in the Organization of Group Care
Programs: A Practical Approach
* The Role of National Youth Policy in the Development of Residential
Education in the United States
* Residential Education in the United States: Some Questions, Some
Suggestions, and a Look Ahead
* Index
* Reference Notes Included