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Children in mind : their mental health in today's world and what we can do to help them / Jenny Perkel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1776147499
  • 9781776147496
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Children in MindDDC classification:
  • 618.92/89 23/eng/20220418
LOC classification:
  • RJ499 .P47 2022
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One : The Clinical Picture of Childhood Mental Distress -- 1 What Brings Today's Children to Psychotherapy? -- 2 Childhood Psychiatric Diagnosis Today -- 3 Scared, Sad Children and Their Self-Protective Defences -- 4 Treating Today 's Troubled Children: Paradigm Clashes -- 5 New Findings about Nature versus Nurture -- Part Two: The Impact of Modern Life on Child Mental Health -- 6 The Internet and Today's Children -- 7 Childhood Adversity Today
8 Socio-economic Considerations: The Gap between Rich and Poor Children -- 9 Children of the Pandemic -- 10 When Children Don't Go Outside and Play -- 11 Today 's Parents in Mind -- 12 Modern Families -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary: Children in Mind is an accessible and up-to-date guide for parents, therapists and professionals who work with children with emotional and behavioural problems. Psychologist, Jenny Perkel presents a range of current local and international research findings relevant to children's mental health in the South African context.
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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One : The Clinical Picture of Childhood Mental Distress -- 1 What Brings Today's Children to Psychotherapy? -- 2 Childhood Psychiatric Diagnosis Today -- 3 Scared, Sad Children and Their Self-Protective Defences -- 4 Treating Today 's Troubled Children: Paradigm Clashes -- 5 New Findings about Nature versus Nurture -- Part Two: The Impact of Modern Life on Child Mental Health -- 6 The Internet and Today's Children -- 7 Childhood Adversity Today

8 Socio-economic Considerations: The Gap between Rich and Poor Children -- 9 Children of the Pandemic -- 10 When Children Don't Go Outside and Play -- 11 Today 's Parents in Mind -- 12 Modern Families -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

Children in Mind is an accessible and up-to-date guide for parents, therapists and professionals who work with children with emotional and behavioural problems. Psychologist, Jenny Perkel presents a range of current local and international research findings relevant to children's mental health in the South African context.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 22, 2022).

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050, 082

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