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Roots of futility [electronic resource] [by] Norman A. Polansky, Robert D. Borgman [and] Christine De Saix.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Jossey-Bass behavioral science seriesPublication details: San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1972.Edition: [1st ed.]Description: xvi, 272 p. 24 cmISBN:
  • 0875891500
  • 9780875891507
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.7/1
LOC classification:
  • HV741 .P58
NLM classification:
  • HC 110.P6
Online resources:
Contents:
Poor as job's turkey -- When is a child neglected? -- Desolation -- Futility in a cultural context -- Design of a diagnostic study -- Psychic maturity and maternal competence -- Transmission of futility -- Impact on the child -- Infantilization -- Verbal accessibility in diagnosis -- Exercises in futility -- Breaking the chain -- Childhood level of living scale -- Maternal characteristics scale -- Infantilization scale.
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Bibliography: p. 257-266.

Poor as job's turkey -- When is a child neglected? -- Desolation -- Futility in a cultural context -- Design of a diagnostic study -- Psychic maturity and maternal competence -- Transmission of futility -- Impact on the child -- Infantilization -- Verbal accessibility in diagnosis -- Exercises in futility -- Breaking the chain -- Childhood level of living scale -- Maternal characteristics scale -- Infantilization scale.

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