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"A key theme of this book is that we urgently need a therapeutic ethos in order to bring both educational and therapeutic sensibilities to bear on the issue of children's wellbeing, if truly effective and appropriate policy responses to the current malaise are to be fashioned. Not least, we must pay particular attention to childhood experience, showing that scientific and technical developments are always secondary to the resources of the human soul, if we are to minimize the extent to which today's children will need therapy as adults. This will entail moving beyond narrowly mechanistic definitions of, and ways of thinking about, "well-being" and the psychological therapies. This book offers pointers to the kinds of arguments that can inform what is rapidly becoming a central concern of politicians and policy-makers. A unique book in the field, Childhood, Well-being and a Therapeutic Ethos will be core cross-disciplinary reading in a range of academic and training contexts, including within Education, Psychology and Sociology departments, on early childhood studies and policy studies modules and degrees, and on child and other psychotherapy and counselling trainings."--Provided by publisher.

Child psychology. --- Child development. --- Well-being --- Therapeutic ethos

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In this brilliantly evocative ethnography, Francio Guadeloupe probes the ethos and attitude created by radio disc jockeys on the binational Caribbean island of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten. Examining the intersection of Christianity, calypso, and capitalism, Guadeloupe shows how a multiethnic and multireligious island nation, where livelihoods depend on tourism, has managed to encourage all social classes to transcend their ethnic and religious differences. In his pathbreaking analysis, Guadeloupe credits the island DJs, whose formulations of Christian faith, musical creativity, and capitalist survival express ordinary people's hopes and fears and promote tolerance.

Ethnology --- Ethnicity --- Anthropology of religion --- Religion and culture --- Disc jockeys --- Music --- Social aspects --- Saint Martin (West Indies) --- Ethnic relations. --- Race relations. --- Social conditions. --- anthropology. --- attitude. --- binational caribbean island. --- calypso. --- capitalism. --- capitalist survival. --- caribbean sea. --- caribbean. --- christian faith. --- christianity. --- cultural studies. --- dj cimarron. --- dj shadow. --- ethnography. --- ethos. --- hip hop music. --- multiethnic island nation. --- multireligious island nation. --- music. --- musical creativity. --- politics. --- radio disc jockey. --- rastafari individuality. --- rastafarian. --- religious anthropology. --- saint martin. --- sint maarten. --- social classes. --- spiritual. --- tolerance. --- tourism.