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Boy zone - boys talk about girls and masculinity
Rob Pattman, Stephen Frosh and Ann Phoenix
This article aims to understand boys’ views on masculinity and femininity. It is based on interviews with 11 to 14-year-old London boys about their experiences and identities, and focuses on how boys speak about girls. Boys gave different responses depending on the context of their interview.
Fit for children?
Charlotte Day
The author states that recent research carried out by The Howard League came to radically different conclusions than those reached by Angela Neustatter in two recent YoungMinds Magazine articles. The Howard League say that prisons can never be fit for children, and that instead of pumping in resources, we should be investing in intensive community alternatives and small scale custodial options for the most serious offenders.
Having their say
Steve Flood
This article is based on children and young people’s responses to the Children and Young People Unit’s consultation. The unit produced two consultation booklets, one for children under 12, and another for young people aged 13-19. The author states that the major issues are: demand for more leisure facilities, the importance of happiness and fulfilment and safety.
In the dock
Steve Flood
Police methods of investigating allegations of past abuse in children’s homes have come in for severe criticism from witnesses appearing the before the Home Affairs Select Committee’s inquiry.
Pole apart - the life and work of Janusz Korczak
Sandra Joseph
This article is about the Polish paediatrician, Janusz Korczak (1879-1942). It describes his work with the most vulnerable children i.e. local destitute and abandoned street children, who had often received long jail sentences. He is quoted as saying that ‘The delinquent child is still a child’. He believed in the innate goodness of children and their natural tendency to improve, given opportunity and guidance.
Speke practice - helping young women access education
Paula Pope
This article is about an innovative project in Speke, South Liverpool, which has helped young people aged 13 and over who are at risk of being excluded from mainstream education. As well as providing access to education and qualifications, they also provide for the basic needs of their students. For instance, they provide breakfast for those who need it, and a crèche.
Uneasy bedfellows? - reconciling intuition and evidence based practice
Trisha Greenhalgh
The author looks at the importance of clinical intuition in a climate of evidence based practice. The article covers the arguments for and against both evidence-based practice and clinical judgement, and concludes that practitioners shouldn’t have to choose between them.
Opinion: Best foot forward
Dinah Morley
Outlines the Department for Education and Skills initiative to support schools and improve behaviour - the Behaviour and Education Support Teams (BEST).
Opinion: Give me some credit
Sean Maher
The author argues that as a young person, he should be allowed to listen to music such as Eminem, without people thinking that he will emulate him. He goes on to say that most people, including children, are able to decide for themselves how they want to behave, and listening to music won’t alter their decision.
Review: An introduction to child development
Terence Gaussen
This is an admirable, modern text book on child development, which is compact, beautifully organised and laid out and easy to read and use. It is aimed at undergraduate level.
Review: Behaviour management in the classroom, and Improving behaviour and raising self-esteem in the classroom
Peter Wilson
The theoretical basis for these books is Transactional Analysis; the ‘adult’ ‘child’ and ‘parent’ ways in which we conduct our lives. The application of these ideas, especially behaviour management is a refreshing addition to current literature.
Review: Comment J'ai tue mon pere
Imogen Le Patourel
40 year old Jean- Luc has followed his father’s footsteps and has a medical career. However, he hasn’t been able to follow them all the way as his father walked out on the family when Jean-Luc was young, vanishing from his life. His father returns and the film looks at their ambivalent relationship.
Review: Educating your child at home
Fiona Berry
This book explains very succinctly why people home educate, how home education differs from school education and how it is done, in an accessible style. It covers the entire age range and has practical ideas, as well as quotations from home educating parents.
Review: Helping families in family centres
Terry Jones
The intention of this book is to contribute to the theoretical base of family centre work as family centres are sometimes quite different to each other, and to examine how the disparate elements form a coherent and creative whole.
Review: Imprisoned fathers and their children
Sarah Salmon
This book describes research undertaken by authors with a group of prisoner fathers, their partners or carers of their children, and the children themselves. The book gives a reminder about the huge impact imprisonment has on families.
Review: Sex differences in antisocial behaviour
Nicholas White
The basis of this book is fresh data from following the lives of 1000 children born in New Zealand in 1972-73 (the Dunedin study). The authors assert that genetic differences in gender account for some anti-social behaviour especially in boys with genetic risk factors towards autism and hyperactivity. Girls who are less susceptible to these, are more likely to have anti-social roots in their social relationships.
Review: Sunbathing in the rain
Kate Clanchy
The author charts the course of her own depression throughout her life and her journey through Zen medication and a career change as a way out of it. She is unemotional and distant from her own story and analyses her younger self who tries to save her own mother from depression.
Review: The boys are back in town
Jerry Green
This autobiographical book tells how the author came to terms with life as a lone father of two boys, following divorce from his first wife and the untimely death of his second.
Review: The father's book
Harvey Gallagher
This book informally looks at what ‘being a real man is’, the relationship the father has with his own father and how it affects the kind of parent he becomes. It gives practical advice on becoming a ‘good enough father.’
Review: The Solihull approach resource pack
Peter Wilson
This pack is very useful for those working in primary care with parents, their babies and young children. It has helpful resource sheets and is informative and practical. There is a theoretical blend of psychodynamic and behavioural perspectives. The key components of the model are containment, reciprocity and behavioural management.
Review: Working with emotions
Jeanni Barlow
This book addresses the importance of understanding and dealing with teacher, pupil and parent emotions with relation to challenging behaviour in schools.
Webwatch: Virtual bibliophile
Paula Lavis
This column looks at some on-line bibliographic databases and a few interesting projects.
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