Handbook of psychosocial characteristics of exceptional children /
Research has documented the reciprocal effects of exceptionality and secondary psychosocial and behavioral characteristics. This in-depth handbook examines the categories of exceptionality most often described in educational, behavioral, and health practices. Leading authorities from psychology, edu...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
[1999]
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| Series: | Plenum series on human exceptionality.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword : What we make of difference and the difference we make / James M. Kauffman
- Theory and research in the study of childhood exceptionalities / Eric J. Mash and David J.A. Dozois
- Psychological perspectives on exceptionality / Stephanie H. McConaughy and David R. Ritter
- Biological and genetic factors in human development / Vikki F. Howard, Betty Fry Williams, and Pat Port
- Psychosocial effects of environmental factors / Charles N. Oberg, Jolene Bertrand, and Sharon Muret-Wagstaff
- Childhood disability and the family / Milton Seligman
- Social and cultural perspectives / Anita K.F. Li
- Determinants of psychosocial disorders in cultural minority children / Vicki L. Schwean, David Mykota, Lorna Robert, and Donald H. Saklofske
- Internalizing disorders of childhood and adolescence / Margaret C. Coleman and Jonathan C. Hoyle
- Externalizing conditions / John E. Lochmann and Renata G. Szczepanski
- [Autism] / Marjorie H. Charlop-Christy and Susan E. Kelso
- Psychosocial characteristics of children with pervasive developmental disorders / Lonnie Zwaigenbaum and Peter Szatmari
- Psychosocial aspects of neurological impairments in children / Margaret Semrud-Clikeman
- Psychosocial correlates of physical and health disabilities / Sherwood J. Best
- An alternate path to exceptionality : prenatal effects of teratogenic substances on developmental processes / Karen Kopera-Frye and Robert Arendt
- Psychosocial correlates of mental retardation / Jo L. Nanson and Bruce Gordon
- Gifted children : the promise of potential/the problems of potential / Ellen D. Fiedler
- Psychosocial correlates of learning disabilities / Ruth Pearl and Mary Bay
- Psychiatric disorders in children with speech, language, and communication disorders / Christiane A.M. Baltaxe
- Emotional disorders in deaf children / Paul Arnold
- The impact of visual impairments on psychosocial development / Sally M. Rogow
- Early identification and intervention of psychosocial and behavioral effects of exceptionality / Tracy K. Wheatcraft and Bruce A. Bracken
- Fostering resilience in exceptional children : the search for islands of competence / Robert B. Brooks
- Looking ahead : the adjustment of adults with disabilities / Vicki L. Schwean.