Books by Jerome Beker

Residential Education as an Option for At-Risk Youth explores residential programs in Israel, draws comparisons with their European counterparts, and recommends practical approaches for the revitalization of such programs in the United States. This volume refutes the conventional professional wisdom in the United States that residential group care programs for children and youth are intrinsically flawed and counterproductive. Instead, it delivers effective models for the implementation of effective residential services. The editors and authors demonstrate the growing need for residential programs, given the overburdened family foster care resources, swelling numbers of zero-parent families, and homeless youth.

Aims to stimulate critical thinking and discussion for those professionals and educators concerned with the quality of children's protective services by tackling the problem of deciding which reports, verbal or written, represent truth and which falsehood in the area of child maltreatment.

Introduces you to a social reality, a sometimes very difficult and challenging social reality, as it is viewed by its participants. This book broaches the problem of tension between workers and residents and hopes that bringing the problem out into the open can be a first step toward a solution.