| Summary: | "This book consists of a collection of papers written by Paul Schilder, Lauretta Bender, and a number of our associates at Bellevue Hospital during the past 15 years. The papers all deal with our experience in the care, treatment, observation and in many cases the re-examination of thousands of children with problems, in the children's ward of the Psychiatric Division of Bellevue Hospital. This group of papers is concerned with the techniques (especially those related to the expressive arts, patterned behavior and group activities) which were found useful in the residential care, observation, understanding, diagnosis, and therapy of this large number of deviate, disturbed and unhappy problem children. By emphasizing problems of retardation in personality development, mental deficiency and regressive behavior in much of the illustrative clinical material, we have tried to give unity to the book. An effort has also been made to give a longitudinal picture of many children who were first observed by us when they were young and who have now reached young adulthood. The book does not aim at being comprehensive but seeks rather to bring together formulations of observations which have interested us over this period of years"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).
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