Philip Cowan, Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley. He has co-directed three longitudinal intervention projects that evaluate the impact of couples group participation on parents and children. Replications have shown positive impact in the United States, Canada, England, and Malta, especially with low-income families.
chapter the thorny issues of definition, nature, aetiol ogy, and prognosis. The remaining 11 chap... more chapter the thorny issues of definition, nature, aetiol ogy, and prognosis. The remaining 11 chapters consist mainly of a presentation of available instruments for assessment and management of ADHD. This presen tation is fair and unbiased. It is a menu rather than an evaluative selection, where the practitioner-customer is allowed to make his or her own choice on the basis of numerous brief descriptions and samples (actually marked as such) of questionnaires, interviewing schedules, training programmes and even software. Much of what is on offer, particularly in the area of management, is not necessarily strictly for the benefit of the ADHD child. There are many general child training tools, aimed at enhancing self-control, parenting, con centration, scholastic and social skills. Faithful to its purpose, the book concludes with two appendices giving the addresses of stockists, manufacturers and distributors of such instruments and programmes. On this evidence the book could well be subtitled: “¿ Market r sponses to a fashionable diagnosis―.
Family Transitions, Cycles, and Social Change Glen H. Elder, Jr. University of North Carolina at ... more Family Transitions, Cycles, and Social Change Glen H. Elder, Jr. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Family studies represent an expanding area of lively ideas and empirical work across the social sciences. 1 A central feature of this development appears in the growing ...
Page 17. Individual and Family Life Transitions: A Proposal for a New Definition Philip A. Cowan ... more Page 17. Individual and Family Life Transitions: A Proposal for a New Definition Philip A. Cowan University of California, Berkeley Americans have always been in transition. Whereas Old World families began with a place, New World families began with an act of migration. ...
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chapter the thorny issues of definition, nature, aetiol ogy, and prognosis. The remaining 11 chap... more chapter the thorny issues of definition, nature, aetiol ogy, and prognosis. The remaining 11 chapters consist mainly of a presentation of available instruments for assessment and management of ADHD. This presen tation is fair and unbiased. It is a menu rather than an evaluative selection, where the practitioner-customer is allowed to make his or her own choice on the basis of numerous brief descriptions and samples (actually marked as such) of questionnaires, interviewing schedules, training programmes and even software. Much of what is on offer, particularly in the area of management, is not necessarily strictly for the benefit of the ADHD child. There are many general child training tools, aimed at enhancing self-control, parenting, con centration, scholastic and social skills. Faithful to its purpose, the book concludes with two appendices giving the addresses of stockists, manufacturers and distributors of such instruments and programmes. On this evidence the book could well be subtitled: “¿ Market r sponses to a fashionable diagnosis―.
Family Transitions, Cycles, and Social Change Glen H. Elder, Jr. University of North Carolina at ... more Family Transitions, Cycles, and Social Change Glen H. Elder, Jr. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Family studies represent an expanding area of lively ideas and empirical work across the social sciences. 1 A central feature of this development appears in the growing ...
Page 17. Individual and Family Life Transitions: A Proposal for a New Definition Philip A. Cowan ... more Page 17. Individual and Family Life Transitions: A Proposal for a New Definition Philip A. Cowan University of California, Berkeley Americans have always been in transition. Whereas Old World families began with a place, New World families began with an act of migration. ...
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