‘The Adolescent Girl in Conflict’ by Gisela Konopka
A study which highlighted the lack of research about girl offenders
Robert Shaw
‘Mother and Baby Homes’ by Jill Nicholson
The first comprehensive study
‘A Home for the Heart’ by Bruno Bettelheim
Lessons learnt from successful practice in residential treatment of disturbed behaviour
‘Exceptional Children: Residential Treatment of Emotionally Disturbed Boys at Shotton Hall’ by Frederick George Lennhoff
Frederick George Lennhoff (1960) Exceptional children: residential treatment of emotionally disturbed boys at Shotton Hall London: George Allen & Unwin F G Lennhoff’s account of his work with maladjusted boys at Shotton Hall gained a favourable review from Probation Journal (Fees, 2008). An educational psychologist, he had been inspired by August Aichhorn (1925), and also … Read more
‘Consequences’ by Elizabeth Reinach and Glyn Roberts
A study of the effectiveness of an observation and assessment centre
‘Leaving Care’ by Mike Stein and Kate Carey
Indicators for success- and failure- in aftercare
‘An Experiment in Group Upbringing’ by Anna Freud and Sophie Dann
How children from a concentration camp learnt to relate to adults
‘Dibs in Search of Self’ by Virginia Mae Axline
A touching classic about creating the right space to let healing happen
‘Child Care and the Growth of Love’ by John Bowlby
A child care classic, still quoted but contentious
‘Early Experience: Myth and Evidence’ by Ann Clarke and Alan Clarke
A collation of child care research which challenged current thinking
‘Challenges for Child and Youth Care: A German-Israeli Dialogue’ Edited by Emmanuel Grupper, Josef Koch and Friedhelm Peters
This collection of papers from a two year German-Israeli project offers an insight into the development of social pedagogy and a variety of ways of working with children and young people which will repay study by those seeking to take child care forward. Some of the papers were clearly written for the exchange and a … Read more
The Environment in Residential Child Care
Children are not just individuals; their environment matters too.