Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword

• Preface
• Introduction: Group Care Utilizing a Developmental Perspective
• Children and Youth Grow and Develop in Group Care
• Essential Components in Care and Treatment Environments for Children
• How Children and Adolescents Conceive Their World Beyond the Group Care Setting
• The Core of Care: Essential Ingredients for the Development of Children at Home and Away From Home
• To Be Attached and Free
• Learning to Live and Living to Learn in Residential Treatment
• Influence Techniques
• The Space We Create Controls Us
• Child Care Within an Organizational Context: The Inherent Strain
• The Child Care Worker
• Teaching and Training as a Facet of Supervision of Child Care Staff
• Emerging Issues in Child and Youth Care Education: A Platform for Planning
• References
• Index