Child Guidance in Britain, 1918-1955: The Dangerous Age of Childhood / Edition 1

by John Stewart

Overview

Stewart presents a history of child guidance in Britain from its origins in the years after the First World War until the consolidation of the welfare state. This is the first study of child guidance in this period and makes a significant contribution to the historiography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138662315
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/21/2016
Series:	Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Stewart

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: 'An Enigma to Their Parents'; Chapter 1a Child Guidance Comes to Britain; Chapter 2 Professionals; Chapter 3 The Spread of Child Guidance in the 1930s; Chapter 4 Normalcy, Happiness and Child Guidance in Practice; Chapter 5 Child Guidance in Wartime; Chapter 6 Child Guidance and the British Welfare State; Chapter 7 Child Guidance in Britain at Mid-Century: 'More Akin to Magic than to Medicine'; Chapter 9 Conclusion: ‘The Dangerous Age of Childhood’;