Main description:

Stewart presents a history of child guidance in Britain from its origins in the years after the First World War until the consolidation of the welfare state. This is the first study of child guidance in this period and makes a significant contribution to the historiography.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: 'An Enigma to Their Parents'; Chapter 1a Child Guidance Comes to Britain; Chapter 2 Professionals; Chapter 3 The Spread of Child Guidance in the 1930s; Chapter 4 Normalcy, Happiness and Child Guidance in Practice; Chapter 5 Child Guidance in Wartime; Chapter 6 Child Guidance and the British Welfare State; Chapter 7 Child Guidance in Britain at Mid-Century: 'More Akin to Magic than to Medicine'; Chapter 9 Conclusion: 'The Dangerous Age of Childhood';