The Peper Harow residential community was founded in 1970 and gained international repute for its pioneering work with disturbed adolescents. For over 20 years, this remarkable establishment provided a therapeutic environment for teenagers who had often suffered appalling abuse, and yet for whom the state's only remedial provision until then had been in the punitive form of the approved schools. In Transforming Hate to Love Melvyn Rose, the community's founder, assesses Peper Harow's success in managing disturbed behaviour, and offers views on areas where the establishment could have responded more effectively to the needs of its residents. His study is complemented by the testimony of ex-residents helped by Peper Harow to overcome their fears and abandon their disruptive behaviour. The overwhelmingly positive outcome indicates the need for a review of current social policy towards deviant youth and shows how society as a whole would benefit from a psychodynamic view of the causes of criminality and mental ill-health among the young.
Author(s): Melvyn Rose
Edition: 1
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 168
BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
FOREWORD......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 10
2 A DESIGN FOR CHANGE AND GROWTH......Page 22
3 BEFORE AND AFTER......Page 38
Life pre-Peper Harow......Page 45
Developing relationships and self-image......Page 46
Education at Peper Harow......Page 48
You now and your reflections of you then......Page 49
Aspects pleased with......Page 50
Getting by without Peper Harow......Page 51
Current situation......Page 52
Life pre-Peper Harow......Page 57
You now and your reflections of you then......Page 58
Children......Page 59
Getting by without Peper Harow......Page 60
Spontaneous comments......Page 61
Life pre-Peper Harow......Page 62
Developing relationships and self-image......Page 63
You now and your reflections of you then......Page 64
Getting by without Peper Harow......Page 65
4 AGENTS OF CHANGE......Page 72
5 LIMITATIONS OF INSIGHT......Page 98
6 BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT......Page 118
7 METHODS......Page 136
THE RESEARCH SAMPLE......Page 138
THE INTERVIEW—DESIGN AND PROCESS......Page 140
MANAGING THE MATERIAL......Page 142
RESPONSE TO THE MATERIAL......Page 143
THE TEXT......Page 145
8 SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS......Page 146
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 158
INDEX......Page 160
