1. By Way of Thanks for Warm Recognition: Some Personal and Professional Reflections on the Field and Its Prospects for the Future

   • Jerome Beker

   Introduction Pages: 325 - 330

2. Tributes

   • James K. Whittaker
   • Jack Phelan
   • Mary Burnison

   Dedication Pages: 331 - 337

3. Interviews with Leaders: Jerome Beker

   • Jerome Beker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 339 - 342

4. Editorial: A New Journal for an Emerging Profession

   • Jerome Beker

   Editorial Commentary Pages: 343 - 344

5. Development of a Professional Identity for the Child Care Worker

   • Jerome Beker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 345 - 354

6. Toward the Unification of the Child Care Field as a Profession

   • Jerome Beker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 355 - 362

7. The Emergence of Clinical Youthwork as a Profession: Implications for the Youthwork Field

   • Jerome Beker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 363 - 376

8. Emerging Issues in Child and Youth Care Education: A Platform for Planning

   • Jerome Beker
   • Henry W. Maier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 377 - 386

9. The Educateur Returns to America: Approaching the Development of Professional Child and Youth Care Cross-Culturally Through ILEX

   • Jerome Beker
   • F. Herbert Barnes

   OriginalPaper Pages: 387 - 401

10. Residential Group Care as a Socializing Environment: Toward a Broader Perspective

    • Mordecai Arieli
    • Jerome Beker
    • Yitzhak Kashti

    OriginalPaper Pages: 403 - 414

11. Beyond Professionalism: The Child and Youth Care Worker as Craftsman

    • Zvi Eisikovits
    • Jerome Beker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 415 - 434

12. Should Child and Youth Care Go the Craft or the Professional Route? A Comment on the Preceding Article by Zvi Eisikovits and Jerome Beker

    • Henry W. Maier

    Commentary Pages: 435 - 440

13. Rejoinder

    • Jerome Beker
    • Zvi Eisikovits

    Commentary Pages: 441 - 442

14. Back to the Future: Effective Residential Group Care and Treatment for Children and Youth and the Fritz Redl Legacy

    • Jerome Beker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 443 - 455