The book presents 27 case studies illustrating psychological interventions with behavior problem school children. Studies ususally introduce the target population, describe the method of ...psychological evaluation, report the results of treatment, and discuss the case's implications. Among cases reported are investigations of stimulant medication on hyperactive students, behavioral intervention for a depressed preschooler, a Gestalt approach to counseling an adolescent, the use of cognitive behavior modification, evaluation of hearing impaired students, selective mutism, relaxation training with enuretic students, chronic absenteeism, treatment of encopresis, school phobia, dropouts, and group counseling with secondary school special education students. (CL)
Children's responses to stressful events are discussed in this paper. The paper describes children's feelings about and reactions to death, divorce, hospitalization and parent imprisonment. School ...phobias are also discussed. Age differences in reactions to these crises are described and discussed in terms of general cognitive development and developmental stages. It is suggested that adults can help children cope with crisis situations by providing accurate information, by encouraging the expression of feelings and by managing their own feelings and attitudes towards these same events. The paper also describes ways in which outside supportive services, teachers, initial family relationships and family life education can affect the child's responses to a crisis situation. (BD)
Psychologists say that a certain amount of anxiety is normal when children take that first big step away from home. The great majority get over it and never look back, says Lionel Hersov, M.D., ...professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and an authority on childhood anxiety disorders. Like Hersov, Ms. Joline N. Jones prefers to call the phenomenon "school refusal." She says school phobia suggests the child is afraid of school. In most cases what's wrong is not at school but at home and the child does not want to leave home, she says, adding that since the only time small children leave home is to go to school, the refusal to leave is seen as refusal to go to school. PHOTOS; (1)A certain amount of anxiety is normal when children take that first big step away from home. The great majority get over it and never look back, says Lionel Hersov, M.D., professor of psychiatry. (2) School phobia suggests the child is afraid of school. In most cases what's wrong is not at school but at home and the child does not want to leave home, says Joline N. Jones, professor of psychology. (3)The first step in treating these youngsters is to determine the source and nature of the anxiety. It's useful to get a picture of behavior at school from teachers, says Robert A. Ciottone, a psychologist.
Twenty-eight papers examine basic theories and clinical methods in child psychiatry. Theories and methods discussed concern child psychiatry and the World Health Organization, pediatrics, child ...disturbances, observation, the psychodiagnostic approach, longitudinal research in child development, the comparative approach to early child development, a methodological approach to defining an infant's ego, and problems of classification. The following clinical problems are covered: the directive function of speech in development and dissolution, psychogenic and allied disorders of communication in childhood, psychosis in childhood, later assessment of early experience, social problems of mental subnormality, school phobia, parental bereavement in childhood, the genetics of mental deficiency, and aspects of delinquent behavior in children and adolescents. Also considered are the role of the family in the emergence of child disorders; personality development and family vicissitudes; and family relationships, fathers, and the law. Therapeutic methods and prophylaxis described include therapeutic consultation, community therapy, psychopharmacology in childhood, behavior therapy and conditioning techniques, and primary prevention of mental disorders by school psychologists. (SN)
TWENTY ARTICLES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME, THE 22ND IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE CHILD SERIES. PAPERS ON PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND THERAPY INTERPRET LOSING AND BEING LOST, OBSTACLES TO ...PSYCHOANALYTIC CURE, AND AFFECT CONTROL. ASPECTS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY CONSIDERED ARE FREUD'S CONCEPT OF PRIMAL REPRESSION, CONCEPTS OF STRUCTURE AND STRUCTURALIZATION IN LEARNING AND CREATIVITY AND THE METAPSYCHOLOGY OF THE PREANALYTIC PATIENT. PAPERS ON NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT DISCUSS THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION IN THE PRENURSERY, THE RECOVERY OF A MEMORY FROM INFANCY, CONSIDERATIONS IN THE OCCUPATIONS OF THE BLIND, INDIVIDUATION IN ADOLESCENCE, AND LIBIDINAL PHASES IN TREATMENT OF A PRESCHOOL CHILD. ALSO CONCERNING DEVELOPMENT (NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL) ARE PAPERS ON EARLY INFANCY, THE PEEK-A-BOO GAME, ENCOPRESIS IN A LATENCY BOY, AND MASTURBATION FANTASIES. CLINICAL CONTRIBUTIONS CONCERN VISUAL HALLUCINOSIS, OBJECT CONSTANCY AND PSYCHOTIC RECONSTRUCTION, SCHOOL PHOBIAS, AND THE PERSISTENCE OF AN INFANTILE FETISH. A LIST OF THE CONTENTS OF THE FIRST 21 VOLUMES IN THE SERIES IS ALSO PROVIDED. THIS DOCUMENT WAS PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES PRESS, INC., 239 PARK AVENUE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10003, AND IS AVAILABLE FOR $12.00. (JD)
Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons au symptôme de déscolarisation de l’adolescent s’exprimant par un refus d’aller à l’école et motivé par un vécu d’angoisse. Ce sont les impasses cliniques ...rencontrées dans notre pratique de pédopsychiatrie qui ont favorisé notre recherche, les jeunes et leur famille ne donnant pas suite aux soins alors que les répercussions socio-relationnelles sont persistantes et massives et les demandes de consultation pour ce symptôme plus importantes. Un retour sur les théories originales de S. Freud, P. Gutton et S. Birraux nous a permis de dégager des hypothèses sur différents nœuds et impasses des processus intrapsychiques et intrafamiliaux en jeu lors de cette délicate transition qu’est l’adolescence : dans ses articulations à la fois à la génitalité, aux appuis identificatoires intra- et extra-familiaux, au savoir et à la pulsion de mort.
