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Taming the troublesome child : American families, child guidance, and the limits of psychiatric authority / Kathleen W. Jones.
- Title
- Taming the troublesome child : American families, child guidance, and the limits of psychiatric authority / Kathleen W. Jones.
- Author
- Jones, Kathleen W.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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- Description
- x, 310 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In Taming the Troublesome Child, these questions lead to the complex history of "child guidance," a specialized psychological service developed early in the twentieth century. Kathleen Jones puts this professional history into the context of the larger culture of age, class, and gender conflict."--BOOK JACKET.
- "When our children act up - whether they're just moody and rebellious or taking drugs and committing crimes - our solution, so often now, is to send them to a psychiatrist or developmental psychologist for help. What makes us think this will work? How did we come to rely on psychological explanations - and corrections - for juvenile misconduct?"--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Problem youth > United States > History > 20th century
- Problem children > United States > History > 20th century
- Child Health Services > history > 20th Century
- Child Guidance
- Child Guidance Clinics
- Mental Disorders
- Mental Health Services > history > 20th Century
- Child mental health services > United States > History > 20th century
- Child guidance clinics > United States > History > 20th century
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Constructing the Troublesome Child -- 2. William Healy and the Progressive Child Savers -- 3. Building the Child Guidance Team -- 4. Popularizing Child Guidance -- 5. The Problem Behavior of the Everyday Child -- 6. Children and Child Guidance -- 7. The Critique of Motherhood -- 8. The Limits of Psychiatric Authority.
- ISBN
- 0674868110 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99011588
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries