Heal the hurt child : an approach through educational therapy with special reference to the extremely deprived Negro child / Hertha Pataky Riese.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riese, Hertha Pataky, 1892-1981, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychiatry.

Children with social disabilities--Education.

Children with social disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 615 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1962.

Summary:

In child guidance today there is surely no scarcity of new publications; if anything, the trend is the other way, toward a plethora of books and articles that spreads over the entire landscape. But this book is a different one; it is, in fact, unique. So far as I know, it is the first offering of a comprehensive program to heal the hurts of the rejects of our society, the deprived children of destitute Negro families. It describes a method of "educational therapy" developed by the author over a period of twenty years at the Educational Therapy Center in Richmond, Virginia.

Contents:

Introduction: Justification for a new therapeutic approach

1. The educational therapy center

2. The hurt child and his relationship to the world

3. The home the child calls his own

4. The psychosocial economy of the family: its normal and abnormal aspects

5. Parents

6. Sex education and maturation

7. Relation to objects

8. Identity in relation to objects

9. The problem of language

10. The child and his psychotherapist

11. Principles and techniques characterizing the educational therapy center approach

12. Therapeutic education

13. General introduction to therapy

14. Main aspects of therapy

Appendix: dynamics of representative case histories.

Notes:

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