Vulnerable Children: Three Studies of Children in Conflict

Description

Originally published in 1968, this book was an experimental investigation into some personality characteristics associated with three types of child problem behaviour. The behaviour of the children in school is described, and their underlying personality needs, as evinced by the stories they told to the author, are assessed. The behaviour at home of the asthmatic and road accident children is examined and their early developmental history traced. The part played by prolonged environmental stress, constitutional vulnerability and transitory needs is considered. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Original Title Original Copyright Dedication Acknowledgements Contents I Children in Conflict Part One: Road Accident Involvement in Children II Road Accident Involvement in Children III Clinical Speculations and Formulation of Basic Hypotheses IV Previous Work on the Personality of Accident Involved Children V The Personality Needs of Accident Involved Children VI The Personality Needs of Mothers of Accident Involved Children VII The Relationships between Need for Assertion and Environmental Stress VIII Discussion of Present Findings Part Two: Sexual Assault in Childhood IX Introduction to the Problem of Studying the Sexually Assaulted Child X Previous Discussion of the Problem XI Formulation of the Basic Hypotheses XII Previous Empirical Work on Personality and Subsequent Development XIII The Personality Needs of Sexually Assaulted Children XIV Unsettledness in Relation to the Time Lapse from the Assault XV The Relationship between Intellectual Retardation and Affection Seeking XVI Discussion of Present Findings Part Three: Asthmatic Children XVII Introduction to the Problem XVIII Clinical Description and Formulation of Basic Hypotheses XIX Previous Investigations of the Child and his Mother XX The Personality Needs of Asthmatic Children XXI The Relationship between Length of Illness and Degree of Unsettledness XXII The Asthmatic Child's Mother and her Attitude towards him XXIII Unsettling Environmental Experiences and the onset of Asthma XXIV Child Problem Behaviour as perceived by the Mother XXV Discussion of Present Findings Appendix: A note on the validity of using questionnaire items as indices of maternal rejection Bibliography Index