Beyond the Best Interest of the Child: Ten Years Later

The book “Beyond The Best Interest Of the Child” advocated major changes in understanding and implementing child placements, through general principles and guidelines and through specific recommendations. After ten years of clinical experience with child placements, a reassessment of the book is attempted. It is felt that the main principles and guidelines espoused are useful and are an improvement over the previous guidelines. However, the specific recommendations were felt to be less useful and are not necessarily the logical consequences of the principles and guidelines.