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
The Routledge International Companion to Education brings together a range of authoritative accounts of key issues facing educationalists as the new century begins. The volume contains almost sixty major contributions exploring issues ranging from early childhood to adult education, from developments in the teaching of reading to challenges of peace education.
Transitions to School: Perceptions, Expectations, and Experiences
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Transition to school is an important process for all involved: children, parents, educators and others.
This book presents comprehensive research from the Australian Starting School Research Project and other sources that should be of great value to researchers in early childhood education, practitioners in this field and early childhood teacher education students.
How does developmental psychology connect with the developing world?
What do cultural representations tell us about the contemporary
politics of childhood? What is the political economy of childhood?
This companion volume to Burman's Deconstructing Developmental Psychology
helps us to explain why questions around children and childhood - their
safety, their sexuality, their interests and abilities, their violence
- have so preoccupied the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In
this increasingly post-industrial, post-colonial and multicultural
world, this book identifies analytical and practical strategies for
improving how we think about and work with children. Drawing in
particular on feminist and postdevelopment literatures, the book
illustrates how and why reconceptualising our notions of individual and
human development, including those informing models of children's
rights and interests, will foster more just and equitable forms of
professional practice with children and their families.
Early Childhood Assessment
A new guide to conducting more comprehensive and meaningful
psychological assessments of young children. Early Childhood Assessment
presents a thorough, step-by-step approach to the comprehensive
psychological assessment of young children. In addition to covering
major psychological tests, this invaluable resource includes specific
guidelines and formats for interviewing parents and other caregivers,
observing children and caregiver-child interaction, conducting dynamic
assessments, writing reports, and evaluating outcomes of recommended
interventions.