Thriving in the face of childhood adversity / / Daphne Blunt Bugental

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812542603321
• Autore: Bugental Daphne Blunt
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-134-95025-X; 1-138-00598-3; 0-203-75978-8; 1-299-47744-5; 1-134-95018-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 232 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.45/1
• Soggetti: Children with disabilities - Social conditions; Children with disabilities - Psychology; Parents of children with disabilities - Psychology; Children with disabilities - Abuse of - Prevention; Children with disabilities - Care
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: SECTION A: HISTORICAL, CULTURAL, PROFESSIONAL, AND 1 -- SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN WITH PHYSICAL AND MEDICAL DISORDERS --Chapter 1 Ways of Thinking about Children's Medical 3 -- and Physical Disorders --Chapter 2 Conceptualizing Medical and Physical Disorders 19 -- in the Sciences: A Shifting Story --Chapter 3 How Do Children Thrive (or Fail to Thrive) 37 -- in the Face of Early Adversity? --SECTION B: THE EXPERIENCES OF CHILDREN 53 -- WITH MOBILITY CONSTRAINTS --Chapter 4 Mobility Constraints: Why the Caged Bird Sings 55 --Chapter 5 Parents and Children as Collaborators in Managing 69 -- Mobility Constraints --Chapter 6 I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends 85 --SECTION C: THE CHILD IN A WORLD APART: 97 -- THE EXPERIENCES OF CHILDREN WHO -- APPEAR TO BE SOCIALLY UNRESPONSIVE --Chapter 7 Ways of Understanding the Child in a World Apart 99 --Chapter 8 Parental Reactions to the Child in a World Apart 115 --Chapter 9 Social ; Relationships Experienced by Children 129 -- in a World Apart --SECTION D: THE SOCIALLY STIGMATIZED CHILD: 147 -- THE EXPERIENCES OF CHILDREN -- WITH APPEARANCE ANOMALIES --Chapter 10 Understanding the Experiences of Children 149 -- Who Look Different --Chapter 11 Parental Responses to Children 165 -- with Stigmatizing Disorders --Chapter 12 Moving Outside the Family: The Worlds 181 -- of Children Who Look Different --Chapter 13 The Positive Possibilities of an Early Intervention 195 -- Program --Epilogue 211 -- Index 217.
• Sommario/riassunto: Offering both social psychological & biological accounts of how children experience difficulties, this text suggests how the social responses of others may foster resilience as well as risk & describes an intervention that facilitates the more positive experiences of children early in life.