This issue celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Re-ED model for troubled and troubling children. Long before concepts like "strength-based" and "evidence-based" entered the field, these were central to the principles of Re-Education. Guest editor James Doncaster of Pressley Ridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, begins by introducing the…

Traditional approaches to education and youth work were transformed by two psychologists who came to the United States as Hitler rose to power. Practical theorist Kurt Lewin challenged mechanistic ideas of behavior by studying children in their natural "life space." Theory practitioner Fritz Redl applied life space concepts to work with…