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9780898628135

Temperament in Clinical Practice

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  • ISBN13:

    9780898628135

  • ISBN10:

    089862813X

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-05-08
  • Publisher: The Guilford Press

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Summary

This book offers a realistic and eminently practical understanding of the role temperament plays in development. The combination of wisdom, common sense, and concrete clinical strategies found in these pages will prove invaluable to psychiatric and health professionals, teachers, and special educators. It also serves as a benchmark text for advanced courses in child psychology and psychiatry.

Author Biography

Stella Chess, M.D, who received the Adolf Meyer Award in 1996 from the American Psychiatric Association, is Professor of Child Psychiatry at New York University Medical Center.
Alexander Thomas, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at New York University Medical Center, served as Director of the Psychiatry Division of Bellevue Hospital from 1968 through 1978.
Well known for the New York Longitudinal Study of the role of termperament in normal and deviant child development, Drs. Chess and Thomas have been honored with numerous awards. Currently, they are consultants to the Temperament Program of the Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance Organization.

Table of Contents

The Functional Significance of Temperament
The Significance of Temperament
Goodness of Fit: Control and Mastery versus the Controlling Parent or Child
Parental Reactions to the Child's Temperament
Temperament in Infancy
Temperament in the Toddler Stage
Temperament in Middle Childhood
Temperament in Adolescence
Temperament in Adult Life
Clinical Applications
Obtaining Data on Temperament in Clinical Practice
Prevention and Treatment ? General Considerations
Parent Guidance
Direct Treatment of Child and Adult
Special Areas
Temperament and School Functioning
W. B. Carey, Temperament and Pediatric Practice
Temperament and Nursing Practice
Temperament and the Handicapped Child
Overview
The Clinical Significance of Temperament
Temperamental Categories and Their Definitions
Consistence and Inconsistency of Temperament over Time
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