ABSTRACT
Persons who work with children have long recognized that the child in institutional care can be helped to make a healthful adjustment to life by being treated as an individual and not just as a member of the group. The child has to be exposed to the benefits of group experience--but this group experience should not keep his individual psychosocial needs from being met. With this approach has come the realization that child care staff usually lack the professional know-how and status for the responsibilities they carry. This chapter discusses Europe and European ways. European child care experts believe that no single method of screening applicants for training for child care work is reliable; that a combination of methods should always be used. The empirical knowledge derived from the experimentation and research of World War II was used to develop the postwar child care programs and training.
