Product Description: This volume presents multiple perspectives on parenthood: ethnologists look at the biology of parenthood, anthropologists discuss the diverse methods of child rearing, psychologists and psychoanalysts examine the process of becoming a parent and how parental pathology affects child rearing...read more

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Product Description: This work about troubled children and children at risk of future disturbance is organised in sections devoted to the oppositional, the inhibited and the depressed child. The major issues of theory, research and clinical practice relevant to each of the three diagnostic groups are discussed...read more

Product Description: The eighth volume in the "International Yearbook" series takes a close look at the "children of disaster" who survive a perilous upbringing but show a wide range of psychopathology as a consequence. Chapters deal with the issues of parenting and the child's development of self-image and self-concept under stressful conditions of varying types...read more

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