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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459643903321

Autore

House Richard

Titolo

Childhood, well-being and a therapeutic ethos / / by Richard House

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2009

ISBN

0-429-89763-4

0-429-47286-2

1-282-77971-0

9786612779718

1-84940-845-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Disciplina

155.4

Soggetti

Child psychology

Child development

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE: Editorial introduction: 'Therapeutic ethos' in therapeutic, educational and cultural perspectives; PART I: CHILDHOOD IN CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE; PART II: CHILDHOOD AND ITS DISCONTENTS: THE SPECIFIC CONCERNS; PART III: TOWARDS A THERAPEUTIC ETHOS FOR CHILDHOOD; PART IV: PLAY, PLAYFULNESS, AND CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING

Sommario/riassunto

A key theme of this book is that we urgently need a therapeutic ethos in order to bring both educational and therapeutic sensibilities to bear on the issue of children's wellbeing, if truly effective and appropriate policy responses to the current malaise are to be fashioned. Not least, we must pay particular attention to childhood experience, showing that scientific and technical developments are always secondary to the resources of the human soul, if we are to minimize the extent to which today's children will need therapy as adults. This will entail moving beyond narrowly mechanistic definitions of, and ways of thinking



about, "well-being" and the psychological therapies. This book offers pointers to the kinds of arguments that can inform what is rapidly becoming a central concern of politicians and policy-makers.