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Title:

Handbook of psychosocial characteristics of exceptional children / edited by Vicki L. Schwean and Donald H. Saklofske.

Publisher:

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

xxiii, 622 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Exceptional children--Psychology.
Exceptional children--Mental health.
Exceptional children--Psychology.
Exceptional children--Mental health.
Child, Exceptional--psychology
Child behavior disorders--Psychology.
Developmental Disabilities--rehabilitation.
Social Adjustment--Child.

Other Authors:

Schwean, Vicki L.
Saklofske, Donald H.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword : What we make of difference and the difference we make / James M. Kauffman -- Theory and research in the study of childhood exceptionalities / Eric J. Mash and David J.A. Dozois -- Psychological perspectives on exceptionality / Stephanie H. McConaughy and David R. Ritter -- Biological and genetic factors in human development / Vikki F. Howard, Betty Fry Williams, and Pat Port -- Psychosocial effects of environmental factors / Charles N. Oberg, Jolene Bertrand, and Sharon Muret-Wagstaff -- Childhood disability and the family / Milton Seligman -- Social and cultural perspectives / Anita K.F. Li -- Determinants of psychosocial disorders in cultural minority children / Vicki L. Schwean ... [et al.] -- Internalizing disorders of childhood and adolescence / Margaret C. Coleman and Jonathan C. Hoyle -- Externalizing conditions / John E. Lochmann and Renata G. Szczepanski -- Austim [sic] / Marjorie H. Charlop-Christy and Susan E. Kelso -- Psychosocial characteristics of children with pervasive developmental disorders / Lonnie Zwaigenbaum and Peter Szatmari -- Psychosocial aspects of neurological impairments in children / Margaret Semrud-Clikeman -- Psychosocial correlates of physical and health disabilities / Sherwood J. Best -- An alternate path to exceptionality : prenatal effects of teratogenic substances on developmental processes / Karen Kopera-Frye and Robert Arendt -- Psychosocial correlates of mental retardation / Jo L. Nanson and Bruce Gordon -- Gifted children : the promise of potential/the problems of potential / Ellen D. Fiedler -- Psychosocial correlates of learning disabilities / Ruth Pearl and Mary Bay -- Psychiatric disorders in children with speech, language, and communication disorders / Christiane A.M. Baltaxe -- Emotional disorders in deaf children / Paul Arnold -- The impact of visual impairments on psychosocial development / Sally M. Rogow -- Early identification and intervention of psychosocial and behavioral effects of exceptionality / Tracy K. Wheatcraft and Bruce A. Bracken -- Fostering resilience in exceptional children : the search for islands of competence / Robert B. Brooks -- Looking ahead : the adjustment of adults with disabilities / Vicki L. Schwean.

Series:

Plenum series on human exceptionality

ISBN:

9780306460630
0306460637

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41035370

LCCN:

99020644

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)