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Publication Date: June 1977
Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Paul Steinfeld
Research Area: Social conditions
Keywords: Mental Health; Children; Institutional Care; Psychology
Type: Report
Coverage: New York
Abstract:
Despite critics' claims that residential institutional programs for children are anachronistic, and that foster care is better in every situation, the author argues that residential treatment offers a unique value unavailable in foster care: a therapeutic community. The author discusses how administrators and staff can offer children an environment in which they are protected from themselves and from each other, while learning how to treat one another with kindness, and in which staff and residents are responsible to one another.
In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, ed. by Sanford Sherman, v.53, no.4, June 1977, p.379-382.