Child Guidance in Britain, 1918–1955

John Stewart

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’;