Title: Temperament and behavior disorders in children /
Authors: Thomas, Alexander,; Chess, Stella; Birch, Herbert George,; Chess, Stella,; Birch, Herbert George,
Date: 1968
Publisher: New York University Press,
Physical description: vii, 309 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: R
Contents: Preface -- 1. Behavior disorders and the concept of temperament -- 2. The background: the New York longitudinal study -- 3. The clinical sample -- 4. Strategy of data analysis -- 5. The relation of temperament to disturbance: a quantitative analysis -- 6. The interaction of temperament and environment in the development of behavioral disturbance -- 7. Difficult children -- 8. Easy children -- 9. Children who are slow to warm up -- 10. Persistence -- 11. Distractibility -- 12. Activity level -- 13. Three children with brain damage -- 14. Stress: consonance and dissonance -- 15. The developmental dynamics of symptom formation and elaboration -- 16. Treatment and follow-up -- 17. Theoretical implications of the findingst -- 18. Practical implications of the findings -- App. A -- App. B -- Index.
Notes: Issued with various printing dates.
Subject headings (LCSH): Child psychiatry.; Temperament in children.