Transforming Hate to Love : An Outcome Study of the Peper Harow Treatment Process for Adolescents

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. 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 The Peper Harow residential community was founded in 1970 and gained international repute for its 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 describes how Peper Harow mananged rather than punished disruptive behaviour. Through the words of ex-residents the reader is given a unique view of the effectiveness of the treatment process - its successes and its failures. The overwhelmingly positive outcome of Rose's interviews with ex-residents of Peper Harow indicated that the area reflects an incomplete view of the causes of criminality among young people. Peper Harow's success demonstrated to both the general and specialist reader how a psychodynamic approach to adolescent delinquency, and its emotional source could benefit society as a whole The Peper Harow residential community was founded in 1970 and gained international repute for its pioneering work with disturbed adolescents. In Transforming Hate to Love, Melvyn Rose, the community's founder, assesses Peper Harow's success in managing disturbed behavior, 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 who overcame their fears and abandoned their disruptive behavior. The overwhelmingly positive outcome indicates the need for a review of current social policy towards deviant youth and shows how society would benefit from a psychodynamic view of the causes of criminality and mental ill-health among the young. An assessment of the pioneering work of the Peper Harow community for disturbed adolescents. Written by its founder, Melvyn Rose and including the testimony of ex-residents, it calls for a review of social policy towards d̀eviant' youth