Twenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in every sizable town in North America. Clinicians, backed by a grassroots movement of patients and therapists, find child sexual abuse to be the primary cause of the illness, while critics accuse the "MPD" community of fostering false memories of childhood trauma. Here the distinguished philosopher Ian Hacking uses the MPD epidemic and its links with the contemporary concept of child abuse to scrutinize today's moral and political climate
This text provides teachers with tried and tested methods to cope with the growing problem of bullying. In its 3rd edition, the text contains new sections on the following areas: peer monitoring; classroom activities; school non-attendance; teachers holding the key to change; children in care; long-term effects of bullying; and practical ways for teachers & staff to deal with this issue. The author is Director of the children's charity, Kidscape, which deals with the prevention of child abuse. She has also chaired the UN's World Health Organization working group about child abuse.
Everyday English, Book 1 by Jean Sherwood Rankin (Rare Book Collection)
To make good speech a sort of social obligation will impress a child infinitely more than all the abstractions known as rules of grammar. There is no more interesting, even fascinating subject than that of language use, whether relative to the old or young. Yet vital books about language are the exception. There seems to be a wellnigh fatal penalty attached to the handling of such a theme; to wit, the dryasdust manner, a lack of all freshness, color and movement. This is all the stranger since we are all implicated in the questions of the use and abuse of the mother tongue and no topic is more eagerly discussed or awakens a more alert attention. The little volume here following contains, it seems, a thoroughly acceptable treatment of the principles of language use for the guidance of children.
