@article{ref1,
title="Residential treatment and the invention of the emotionally disturbed child in twentieth-century America",
journal="Bulletin of the history of medicine",
year="2016",
author="Doroshow, Deborah Blythe",
volume="90",
number="1",
pages="92-123",
abstract="In the 1930s, children who were violent, depressed, psychotic, or suicidal would likely have been labeled delinquent and sent to a custodial training school for punitive treatment. But starting in the 1940s, a new group of institutions embarked on a new experiment to salvage and treat severely deviant children. In the process, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers at these residential treatment centers (RTCs) made visible, and indeed invented, a new patient population. This article uses medical literature, popular media, and archival sources from several RTCs to argue that staff members created what they called the &quot;emotionally disturbed&quot; child. While historians have described the identification of the mildly &quot;troublesome&quot; child in child guidance clinics, I demonstrate how a much more severely ill child was identified and defined in the process of creating residential treatment and child mental health as a professional enterprise.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0007-5140",
doi="10.1353/bhm.2016.0023",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2016.0023"
}