New Hope for Deprived Children / Betty Flint.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flint, Betty, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Institutional care--Canada--Longitudinal studies.

Children.

Adopted children--Canada--Longitudinal studies.

Adopted children.

Canada.

Genre:

Longitudinal studies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations, graphs

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

New Hope for Deprived Children is the carefully documented story of the development of a group of children from infancy through early adolescence. Exhibiting the effects of severe institutional deprivation in the early part of their lives, these children became the focus of a therapeutic programme within an institution designed to relieve their serious developmental deficiencies. The programme and its effects confirmed the faith of the researchers involved that recovery to a certain degree was possible, even with an institutional setting. Further recovery was effected by later placement in foster and adoptive homes. The lives of twenty-eight of these children have been recorded and the data analysed. This book presents their stories in both human and scientific terms. The guidance procedures and therapeutic intervention were based on a personality theory of 'security,' which allowed the research and guidance team to provide a consistent frame of reference to all procedures designed to move the children increasingly closer to 'normal' behaviour. The range of adaptation to homes and community reflects the individual capacities of each child and the capacities of each family to sponsor such individuality. Both the group analysis and the individual histories provide fascinating information and, additionally, pose many fundamental questions about human development.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. The beginning

2. Intervention and evaluation through play

3. Rehabilitation

4. We plan ahead

5. The concept of security

6. Social maturity

7. Emancipation

8. Intellectual function

9. What our measures tell us

10. Concept formation

11. The child care worker

12. George

13. Mindy

14. Tom

15. Postlude

APPENDIX

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

ISBN:

9781487597092

1487597096

9781487595388

1487595387

OCLC:

1091663604