This article reports on an empirical study of a literature project at a special residential home for detained youth in Sweden. Informed by critical literacy, the study explored the ways in which versions of empowerment in relation to reading were performed in a 'critical space'. The ethnographic study was analytically inspired by the actor-network…

The goals and model of the Safety Harbor (Florida) Exceptional Student Center for severely emotionally disturbed children are based on three major assumptions: success in school has a high positive correlation with success in society; most severely disturbed students can be returned to mainstream school programs; and the majority of severely…

The paper describes the residential treatment program at Daniel Memorial, a private agency for 24 emotionally troubled adolescents. Students are said to live on campus for 5 days and return home on weekends. The role of the teacher is focused on, and the Getzels-Guba model is used to picture the organizational areas of conflict or congruence for…

The Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation adopted the Re-ED model for its five residential treatment centers serving severely emotionally disturbed children and adolescents. Procedures for adopting the model are traced, and specific difficult areas in implementation are discussed. It is explained that there is an emphasis on…

Green Chimneys, a residential center for emotionally disturbed and learning disabled children in New York, uses farm animals in the treatment program. Children learn horseback riding, animal husbandry, gardening, and farming on a working farm. The program seeks to involve the community and provide training to volunteers, interns, and learning…

Describes a residential program for disturbed children in which the use of child care workers during the school day makes possible an integrated program of activities. (MS)

The paper describes services in the Memphis (Tennessee) City Schools serving autistic and emotionally disturbed students. Two separate programs are identified and described: a day program for emotionally disturbed students 6-14 years old, and a residential program for autistic students 4-21 years old. The day program is designed to help students…

Available from: EC 090 474. The Security Unit School--an educational and residential treatment model in Pennsylvania for 24 juvenile offenders (15-18 years old)--is described in terms of problems encountered in assimilating students into the program, planning a curriculum, developing effective instructional materials, and providing treatment. (SBH)

A preliminary report on a year-old pilot project attempting to formulate protocols for measuring goal achievement in residential treatment. (SS)

The document contains policies and guidelines for the Child Center of Our Lady of Grace, a facility offering psychiatric evaluation and treatment for children (ages 4 to 17) in the St. Louis (Missouri and Illinois) region. After a brief statement of program rationale and an introduction to the program, services and policies are described.…

Described in an application of Dr. Frank Hewett's Madison plan to the residential treatment of adolescent emotionally disturbed boys with learning related problems. (DB)

This monograph presents descriptions of 11 residential and day treatment programs serving seriously emotionally disturbed youth. Each program's description includes information about the program's origins, type of children served, guiding philosophy and treatment approach, services offered, work with families, linkages with other child-serving…

This study describes an experimental program that involves the participation of child care counselors and remedial educators in planning and implementing a remediation program based on a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of a child's cognitive assets and deficits. (SB)

Describes the Merrifield Program of the Worcester Children's Friend Society which was designed to meet the needs of a small number of emotionally disturbed, school-age children untreatable while living in their own homes. (Author/MB)

The handbook is written for graduate students participating in the Wayne State University Fairlawn Center Cooperative Psycho-Educational Training Program for Teachers of the Emotionally Disturbed. The material is intended as an orientation to the scope of the total program of Fairlawn Center (Pontiac State Hospital, Child Psychiatry Division),…