Negotiating Positive Identity in a Group Care Community: Reclaiming Uprooted Youth

By Jerome Beker

In this readable book, Zvi Levy, Hadassim's Director, provides a careful account of how, over time, he and others have shaped a community to foster health, identity, and competence in distressed young people. Canadian WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization) Hadassim is a thriving youth village in Israel that is home for 500 young people and a day educational program for an additional 1,000. Negotiating Positive Identity in a Residential Group Care Community illustrates the organizational expression of a developmental idea, in this case Erik Erikson's identity development theory, to show how an environment can be created to cope with disrupted development processes among children and adolescents.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113897689X
• ISBN13: 9781138976894
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"