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By Tom Billington

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Written for pros operating with teenagers and teens who require aid, evaluation, or intervention at domestic or in class, this interdisciplinary booklet explores every little thing from the legislative historical past and foundations of principles within the social sciences, to facing kid's misery, worry, or distinct wishes in specialist perform. This publication is a superb source when you both paintings with young children in CAMHS settings, social paintings, adolescence paintings, counseling, psychology, common schooling and distinct academic wishes, or who're venture expert education in any of the above fields.

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Biology, medicine and subsequently sociology and psychology gradually codified their institutional activities and became subject to the conditions of the division of labour, that is as separate, discrete domains of knowledge. Education did not offer itself as a new knowledge in quite the same way, but it provided a site for locating key competing ideas about children and young people that have come to underpin social and governmental policy for over a century. qxd 24 7/4/2006 10:45 AM Page 24 WORKING WITH CHILDREN In its wake, legislation and the provision of services led to a more precise and apparently fixed definition of childhood and education came to serve the interests of government, permitting control over access to and removal from the available workforce.

Education as well as the additional project of developmental and child psychology have been built upon an implicit tendency to rank children in order. New technologies continue to be generated which can rank children with greater sophistication according to their abilities or intelligences, whether educational, cognitive, behavioural and, more recently, even emotional (Gardner, 1983; Goleman, 1995). A Foucauldian reading, however, can allow us to see that whilst such practices claim an a priori knowledge regarding individual children, they are but transient social activities belonging to a particular historical and cultural context.

The values and beliefs contained within the first psychological tests in the USA had long-lasting effects which expanded globally (Rose, 1989). SHARPENING THE FOCUS A dissatisfaction with some of the latter-day social exchanges between professionals and young people within educational settings influenced the change in direction of my own career from education to psychology. The idea that I might as a psychologist be able to be more constructive in contributing to the well-being of individual young people, however, was itself challenged by experiences not just in (re-)training but in professional practice.

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