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Case histories about children who cannot love or trust and how to recognize this type of child.
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- Creator
- Ken Magid, Carole A. McKelvey
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Bantam edition
- Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1988
- ©1987
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 055305290X, 9780553052909, 0553346679, 9780553346671
- OCLC
- ocm16985499
- Reprint. Originally published: Golden, Colo. : M & M Pub., ©1987.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-350) and index.
- America : a breeding ground for psychopaths? The trust bandits ; Kids who kill ; The victims -- A critical time : attachment . What is attachment ; The bonding cycle, how it works ; Childhood symptoms, a warning of things to come ; The cycle continues -- The bonding breaks. Why now? ; Day care : simply a dilemma or a disaster? ; Parental leave ; Adoption and foster care ; The teenage pregnancy epidemic ; The cycle of abuse ; Divorce : disrupted children, disrupted homes -- IV. Treatment. The trouble with traditional therapies ; The referral ; Defusing the national time bomb ; Jeremy : an abbreviated case history ; Modified holding techniques ; More therapeutic options ; Hospital treatment -- V. Preventing children without a conscience. Toward solutions ; Positive parenting practices ; Teachers of future parents ; The teenage baby boom ; National leave policy: the time is now ; What about day care ; Adoption and foster care : making it work ; Interrupting the cycle of abuse ; Relationships : how to avoid a trust bandit ; Educating the experts
Subjects
- Antisocial personality disorders -- Etiology.
- Attachment behavior in children.
- Child rearing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
- Child abuse.
- Child rearing.
- Antisocial Personality Disorder -- etiology
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- Antisocial Personality Disorder -- in infancy & childhood.
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- Child Abuse
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- Child Rearing
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