Taming the troublesome child : American families, child guidance, and the limits of psychiatric authority

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Taming the troublesome child : American families, child guidance, and the limits of psychiatric authority

Kathleen W. Jones

Harvard University Press, 1999

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780674007925

内容説明

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? 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. Using the records of Boston's Judge Baker Guidance Center from 1920 to 1945, she looks at the relationships among the social activists, doctors, psychologists, social workers, parents, and young people who met in the child guidance clinic, then follows the clinicians as they adapt delinquency work to the problems of nondelinquent children--an adaptation that often entailed a harsh critique of American mothers. Her book reveals the uses to which professionals and patients have put this interpretation of juvenile misbehavior, and the conditions that mother-blaming has imposed on social policy and private child rearing to this day.

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Acknowledgments Introduction Constructing the Troublesome Child William Healy and the Progressive Child Savers Building the Child Guidance Team Popularizing Child Guidance The Problem Behavior of the Everyday Child Children and Child Guidance The Critique of Motherhood The Limits of Psychiatric Authority Notes Index
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ISBN 9780674868113

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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? In this book, these questions lead to the complex history of "child guidance", a specialized psychological service developed early in the 20th century. Kathleen Jones puts this professional history into context of the larger culture of age, class, and gender conflict. using the records of Boston's Judge Baker Guidance Centre from 1920 to 1945, she looks at the relationships among the social activists, doctors, psychologists, social workers, parents and young people who met in the child guidance clinic, then follows the clinicians as they adapt delinquency work to the problem of nondelinquent children - an adaptation that often entailed a harsh critique of American mothers, Her book reveals the uses to which professionals and patients have put this interpretation of juvenile misbehaviour, and the conditions that mother-blaming has imposed on social policy and private child rearing to this day.

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