Back to the future: Effective residential group care and treatment for children and youth and the Fritz Redl legacy

Child and Youth Care Forum

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 443-455

  Beker, Jerome ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Normalizing residential treatment; Residential group care for children and youth; Therapeutic camping; Therapeutic milieu; Youth development; Youth development in group care programs; Youthwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344464149     PISSN: 10531890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015329501206     Document Type: Article

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