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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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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.

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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

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Columbia University Libraries