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Taming the troublesome child : American families, child guidance, and the limits of psychiatric authority / Kathleen W. Jones.

Title
  1. Taming the troublesome child : American families, child guidance, and the limits of psychiatric authority / Kathleen W. Jones.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Author
  1. Jones, Kathleen W.

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Description
  1. x, 310 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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.
  2. "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.
Subject
  1. Problem youth > United States > History > 20th century
  2. Problem children > United States > History > 20th century
  3. Child Health Services > history > 20th Century
  4. Child Guidance
  5. Child Guidance Clinics
  6. Mental Disorders
  7. Mental Health Services > history > 20th Century
  8. Child mental health services > United States > History > 20th century
  9. Child guidance clinics > United States > History > 20th century
  10. United States
Contents
  1. 1. Constructing the Troublesome Child -- 2. William Healy and the Progressive Child Savers -- 3. Building the Child Guidance Team -- 4. Popularizing Child Guidance -- 5. The Problem Behavior of the Everyday Child -- 6. Children and Child Guidance -- 7. The Critique of Motherhood -- 8. The Limits of Psychiatric Authority.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.