Abstract
Dr. Fritz Redl has worked with children for over 30 years. This volume is a distillation of papers and books written during that time; it is the personal statement of a long and rich professional career. Most of Dr. Redl's work has been clinical and administrative: he is particularly experienced with groups, milieu, education, and management of difficult cases.<i>When We Deal With Children</i>seems chiefly addressed to workers coping with similar problems. The main theoretical orientation is psychoanalytic. The introductory paper, "Crisis in the Children's Field," was written as a presidential address to the American Orthopsychiatric Association. It outlines clinical services the author considers essential for care of a community's children. These services include physically secure residential settings for delinquents, appropriate foster homes for orphans, and adequately trained psychotherapists. A catalogue of common impediments follows: underimplementation, antiprofessionalism, fads,
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