Helping Troubled Children and Youth

This book is the second describing Re-ED’s ecological approach for work with children and youth often labeled with emotional disturbance, behavior disorders, or mental illness.  Based on educational, psychological, and ecological principles, Re-ED seeks to help children in natural settings by strengthening support systems, reducing system discord, and teaching children to use normal sources of affection, instruction, and discipline.

The principles and practices of re-education, developed initially under mental heatlh auspices, proved applicable to public school, social service, and correctional settings with troubled and troubling children in their first two decades of life.  Re-ED program costs compare faborably to those of traditional treatment.  Studies summarized here present evidence of past and continuing effectiveness of the Re-ED approach.