Short text Coercion is rightly viewed with suspicion in educational fields. Too often, children and adolescents have been tormented in the name of noble educational goals, and attempts have been made to break their will. Nevertheless, a case-oriented perspective reveals that coercion can provide important developmental impulses to children at certain moments in their lives and can initiate educational movements. This initially applies to family upbringing. Whether this is also transferable to social pedagogy, particularly residential education, is what this book aims to explore. Through numerous case studies from group homes, it illustrates the conditions under which institutional elements of coercion can serve a helpful function for the development of children and adolescents, and when or for whom they cause more harm than benefit. Content 1 Coercion in the context of support processes. A first clarification of Be.