| Description |
vii, 309 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface -- 1. Behavior disorders and the concept of temperament -- 2. The background: the New York longitudinal study -- 3. The clinical sample -- 4. Strategy of data analysis -- 5. The relation of temperament to disturbance: a quantitative analysis -- 6. The interaction of temperament and environment in the development of behavioral disturbance -- 7. Difficult children -- 8. Easy children -- 9. Children who are slow to warm up -- 10. Persistence -- 11. Distractibility -- 12. Activity level -- 13. Three children with brain damage -- 14. Stress: consonance and dissonance -- 15. The developmental dynamics of symptom formation and elaboration -- 16. Treatment and follow-up -- 17. Theoretical implications of the findingst -- 18. Practical implications of the findings -- App. A -- App. B -- Index |
| Analysis |
Child psychiatry |
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Temperament in children |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Child psychiatry.
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Child psychology.
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Temperament in children.
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Child Behavior Disorders.
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| Author |
Birch, Herbert George, 1918-1973, author
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Chess, Stella, author
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| LC no. |
68013025 |
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