Taming the Troublesome Child
Subtitle: American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: September 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780674868113
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Mental health services; Psychiatry; Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent; Developmental - Child; Child Psychiatry; Clinical Child Psychology; United States; Psychology; USA; History; Psychiatry - Child & Adolescent; Psychology & Psychiatry / Child Psychology; Child guidance clinics; Social Psychology; Developmental - Adolescent; 20th century; Child mental health services; Problem children
Description: "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.

"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.