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http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... rowth.htmlThe highlight of the conference was a presentation by Houghton. She explained how the term emotional growth came from the CEDU schools as a description of part of the work they did with students in the 1980s. Based largely on the child growth and development model as explained by the author and psychiatrist Eric Erickson, she explained it as having some similarities with the extended families and one-room schoolhouse of yesteryear. Essentially, the emotional growth curriculum as developed by CEDU was designed to take the child back through all the normal developmental stages of childhood, to ensure that each child would have another chance to learn the lessons that might have been missed originally.
http://www.strugglingteens.com/Tiege/history.htmlThe term "emotional growth education" was created by Linda Houghton in the early 1980's to describe workshops and other specialty programs at the first CEDU School. This term was needed in order to help clearly define how the curriculum used child development principles and healthy stages of growth to create self-esteem and develop greater skills in communication, work ethic, self-awareness and academic study.
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... ews02.htmlEmotional growth education in its purest form has been around for thirty years or more, with its roots in the original CEDU High School, founded in the 1970?s. It started as an alternative to the medical/clinical model that was effectively used with young people who needed to be inspired to make changes, but did not require medical or psychiatric treatment. Over time, the architects of emotional growth education incorporated recognized child development and family systems theory into their model, expanding upon the writings of Erikson, Piaget, Bowen, and others. The approach was extraordinarily successful for the right students. Other schools with an emotional growth curriculum began to open: Rocky Mountain Academy, Boulder Creek Academy, Cascade School, CEDU Middle School, Mount Bachelor Academy, and the King George School. For many years, emotional growth education was the only alternative schooling option for struggling young people ? regardless of whether it was appropriate for that child?s needs.
In the 1990?s, it looked for a while as if the pendulum would swing the other way entirely. As it became clear that many students had psychological needs that could not be met by a purely emotional growth approach, schools and programs with a clinical focus began to open. They called themselves ?therapeutic? schools and programs in order to differentiate themselves from the ?emotional growth? schools and programs. This clinically-based model was better suited to work with the students who needed psychiatric treatment in order to resolve their difficulties. Parents began to be confused. What was the difference? Did their child need emotional growth, or therapeutic treatment? How did you know? Some professionals began to advocate for one approach over the other, saying that one was ?right,? and the other ?wrong,? that one ?worked,? and the other did not.
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe02.htmlBalmer presented a model that sees all youth intervention programs as having in common five elements (he referred to them as the five food groups of adolescent residential intervention). The difference between a Residential Treatment Center, for example, and an Emotional Growth School depends on the different emphases each places on the use of Psychiatry, Therapy, Structure (he used the term Milieu), Education, and Recreation. For example, a Residential Treatment Center will emphasize Psychiatry, Therapy and Therapeutic Structure in its program, with only minor elements of Recreation and Education. On the other hand, an Emotional Growth School is basically a mirror image of a RTC, in that the emphasis is on Structure, Education, and Recreation/activity, with only a minor role being played by Therapy and Psychiatry.
http://www.strugglingteens.com/archives ... /oe02.htmlEMOTIONAL GROWTH VS. THERAPEUTIC
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