Book Detail
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Negotiating Positive Identity in a Group Care Community:
Reclaiming Uprooted Youth
Beker, Jerome
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Category: ConsHlth: Adolescents
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Synopsis:
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.
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