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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Schwean, Vicki L., Saklofske, Donald H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [1999]
Series:Plenum series on human exceptionality.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.