
The Child and Reality
Lectures by a Child Psychiatrist
T.A. Ratcliffe(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 18. September 2018
Book
Hardback
142 pages
978-1-138-33657-5 (ISBN)
Description
Dr Ratcliffe had long experience lecturing to a wide variety of audiences as a child psychiatrist. This title, originally published in 1970, is a collection of twelve of these lectures, given by him on various 'special occasions' during the years prior to publication, in which he emphasized the importance of environmental factors in understanding and working with children.
The subjects include residential work with children, school phobia, adolescence, the problem family, relationship therapy and casework, the three-generation family, and child guidance techniques. The final chapter, based on a lecture originally given in the early years of the community mental health and social services, makes particularly interesting reading in the light of subsequent developments in these services.
At the time this book would have been of great interest not only to professional workers, including doctors, teachers, child care officers, residential staff and health visitors, but equally to the student in each of these fields, and to the lay person who is genuinely concerned with children - and adults. Now it can be enjoyed in its historical context.
The subjects include residential work with children, school phobia, adolescence, the problem family, relationship therapy and casework, the three-generation family, and child guidance techniques. The final chapter, based on a lecture originally given in the early years of the community mental health and social services, makes particularly interesting reading in the light of subsequent developments in these services.
At the time this book would have been of great interest not only to professional workers, including doctors, teachers, child care officers, residential staff and health visitors, but equally to the student in each of these fields, and to the lay person who is genuinely concerned with children - and adults. Now it can be enjoyed in its historical context.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
319 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-33657-5 (9781138336575)
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Person
T. A. Ratcliffe
Content
Author's Introduction. Acknowledgements. 1. Residential Work with Children - Treatment or Training: Is there a Difference? 2. The Therapeutic Team in a Residential Hostel Setting 3. Truancy, School Phobia and School Refusal 4. The Three Generation Family 5. The Problems of Normal Adolescence 6. On Working with Young People 7. The Quality of Parenthood 8. Evaluation with a View to Action (The Diagnostic Role of the Child Guidance Clinic Team) 9. Relationship Therapy and Casework 10. The Problem Family - Personality Factors 11. Specific Aspects of Health Education - Preventive Mental Health for the Teacher and Doctor 12. Community Mental Health in Practice.