Brendtro, Brokenleg, and VanBokern have done much to promote psychoeducational approaches to troubled youth. They have worked with Dr. Nicholas Long and others to produce a journal, Reclaiming Children and Youth. They organize the Black Hills Seminars, an annual event in South Dakota that brings together the best minds in psychoeducation. Their work has given them international acclaim and has had a major impact upon the direction of the field.

The modern lineage of the Psychoeducational Movement starts with Fritz Redl, however. His ideas, strategies and practices have had a most important impact upon the field and continue to be influential. In the summer of 2001 an issue of Reclaiming Children and Youth was devoted to Redl, celebrating the 50th anniversary of his classic work, Children Who Hate. In it Nancy Belknap, guest editor of the journal, said of Redl:

[His] work endures because he believed in the inherent goodness of children and the badness of the events in their lives. His work continues to help us to unravel the marvels of the hidden, frozen, and untapped potential of those disheartened youth who "continually bite the hands that feed them."