The editors of this volume are committed to the philosophy of treating emotionally disturbed children in the life milieu. Both have been intensely involved in training "online" therapists--child care workers. They are convinced that there is no one "right way" in milieu treatment, and propose a electric model for treatment.

Like many of the other writers included in this book, Whittaker and Trieschman conceive of treatment as a total life experience. Th ey do not see the individual versus the group, but the individual within the group situation. They also do not see permissiveness versus limitations, professional staff versus nonprofessional staff , or the institution versus an outside of the community.

The book is divided into two sections: the fi rst is a dialogue between the editors on current issues in residential treatment and problems in treating children. The second is a collection of readings. This is one of the first sourcebooks covering the therapeutic milieu for children in residential treatment centers, specifi cally emotionally disturbed children. It is also an excellent text for courses on the emotionally disturbed child, milieu treatment, and child welfare.

Contenu
Dialogue; Introduction; 2: Current Issues and Problems in Residential Treatment for Emotionally Disturbed Children; Readings; Introduction; I: What Is Milieu Therapy?; 1: Introduction to New Staff; 2: The Concept of a Therapeutic Milieu; 3: A Therapeutic Milieu; 4: Changing Delinquent Subcultures: A Social-Psychological Approach; 5: Developing a Unified Theory of Residential Treatment; II: Individual Treatment in a Therapeutic Milieu; 6: Helping Children Learn to Deal with Sadness; 7: The Role of Psychotherapy in Residential Treatment; 8: Some Aspects of Psychotherapy in a Residential Treatment Center; 9: The Concept of Parental Force; 10: Some Aspects of Residential Casework with Children; III: Group Treatment in a Therapeutic Milieu; 11: The Social Group Work Method and Residential Treatment; 12: The Therapeutic Ingredients in the Group Work Program In a Residential Treatment Center for Children; 13: The Role of the Group in Residential Treatment; 14: Group Therapy and Casework with Ego-Disturbed Children; 15: Summer Camping in the Treatment of Ego-Defective Children; IV: The Nature of Cottage Life and Strategies for Therapeutic Intervention; 16: Physical Illness in the Residential Treatment Center; 17: Observations on the Loss of a Housemother; 18: Characteristics and Resolution of Scapegoating; 19: The Life-Space Interview; 20: Life-Space Management of Behavioral Crises; V: Staffing and Personnel in a Therapeutic Milieu; 21: The Child Care Worker; 22: The Parental Figures in Residential Treatment; 23: Communication and Cottage Parent Supervision in a Residential Treatment Center; 24: How Child Care Workers Are Trained in Europe; 25: Training Child Care Staff: Pitfalls and Promises; VI: The Place of Activities in a Therapeutic Milieu; 26: Prestructuring Group Content; 27: The Impact of Game Ingredients on Children's Play Behavior; 28: Spontaneous Play in Resolution of Problems: A Brief Example; 29: Therapeutic Recreation for Aggressive Children in Residential Treatment; 30: Pets: A Special Technique in Child Psychotherapy; VII: Working with the Families; 31: Parent-Child Separation: Its Significance to Parents; 32: The Separation Phenomenon in Residential Treatment; 33: The Study and Treatment of Families that Produce Multiple Acting-Out Boys; 34: Disturbed Families and Conjoint Family Counseling; 35: Group Therapy with Parents of Children in a Residential Treatment Center