Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Residential Care for Children and Youth

Is residential care 'inherently harmful'? This book argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong and is, itself, harmful to a significant number of children and youth.

Bruce B. Henderson is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Western Carolina University. He received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development and is a member of the Society for Research in Child Development. He has published widely on children's curiosity, memory development, and higher education.

1.Challenging the Conventional Wisdom. 2.Not A Good Place to Grow? 3.Reading the Residential Care Research Literature. 4.What Explains the Hostility toward Residential Care? 5.Explorations of the Effectiveness of Residential Care. 6.Do We Know What Quality Residential Care Is? 7.Working Models of Residential Care in Children's Homes. 8.A Good Place to Grow.