Book Reviews : Helping Troubled Children Michael Rutter Penguin Books, £1.00
| Date | 01 September 1976 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455057602300313 |
| Published date | 01 September 1976 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Intermediate Treatment
BOOK REVIEWS
HMSO, £1.55
Seven years after the 1969 Act, IT
has only got off the ground in a very
few areas. And the -cuts in public ex-
Helping Troubled
penditure could kill it off once and
Children
for all.
Michael Rutter
That would be a
Penguin
great pity, for IT
Books, £1.00
has as much potential for juveniles as
Professor Rutter is
a
leading
community service has proved it
authority on Child Psychiatry and, as
possesses for adult offenders. This doc-
might be expected, his book is pri-
ument published by DHSS is a full
marily a guide to the diagnosis and
account of a residential conference
treatment
of
acutely
disturbed
held in Birmingham during December
children. However, its value to the
1974. As an authoritative and up-to-
non-specialist social worker or proba-
date compendium of conceptual and
tion officer lies in his clever delinea-
practical information about IT it is
tion of conditions requiring psychiatric
highly recommended to all concerned
help, as distinct from those which are
with juvenile offenders.
DAM
normal reactions to family or environ-
mental stresses. He deals fully with
Violence
emotional and conduct disorders
Edited by Norman Tutt
(which he sees as separate categories)
HMSO. £3.15
as well as explaining the signs of more
This is a publication from the De-
crippling conditions such as autism
velopment Group-social Work Ser-
and schizophrenia.
vice of the DHSS. Contributors from
The author is refreshingly free from
various disciplines bring their own ex-
the dogmatism of any psychological
pertise and opinion to bear upon a
&dquo;school&dquo;. His emphasis is on a prag-
problem which has been, in varying
matic, common-sense approach based
forms, much more endemic in our
on the fullest possible appraisal of the
traditional social structures than cur-
circumstances of each individual child.
rent media coverage suggests. The his-
He dislikes simple solutions to particu-
torical background is examined...
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