Negotiating Positive Identity in a Group Care Community: Reclaiming Uprooted Youth Tapa dura - 1993

Name stamped, inked notes on end paper. Otherwise as new.

Routledge, November 1993. Hardcover. New.

Hardback. New. 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. The book describes an ongoing experiment that started fifteen years ago and has since been recognized as an outstanding success. The basic information and ideas expressed by Levy can be used to improve the effectiveness of any framework through which adolescents pass… Leer más

Haworth Pr Inc, 1993. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.