Caring for Troubled Children: Residential Treatment in a Community Context

By James K. Whittaker

Book Overview

In this highly-regarded work, Whittaker forcefully advocates the need for residential treatment as part of a larger continuum of treatment, and explores the context of the setting itself as a dynamic therapeutic factor. Now available in paperback, this book remains among the most notable attempts in the field to utilize an ecological perspective.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202361047
• ISBN13: 9780202361048
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"