Acknowledgements; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Child Guidance Comes to Britain; 2. Professionals; 3. The Spread of Child Guidance in the 1930s; 4. Normalcy, Happiness and Child Guidance in Practice; 5. Child Guidance in Wartime; 6. Child Guidance and the British Welfare State; 7. Child Guidance in Britain at Mid-Century; Conclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Summary
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
