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First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas' new book illuminates one of the most significant theoretical and practical implications in professional publications on temperament today: the concept of goodness of fit. When individuals achieve accordance with the properties and expectations of their respective environments, they have attained goodness of fit, which ultimately enables their psychological growth and health. They can function on a healthy level with a potential for a positive life course. Beginning with a clear definition and explanation of the concept of goodness of fit, the book goes on to delineate the evolution of the goodness of fit concept, its clinical applications, and the biopsychosocial elements relevant to the goodness of fit model. The authors provide insightful step-by-step commentaries on individual case histories that concern such problems. Each case is unique and intriguing, and is reviewed by the authors in a compelling manner. As is appropriate to their research, they have wisely taken into account a wide variety of environmental expectations and demands-parental and other caregivers' child practices and goals, peer group judgments, special community values, as well as cultural and ethnic diversity. They also address possible educational rules and expectations, career stresses, sexual issues and marital conflicts. In the past, clinical applications of the concept of goodness of fit have been restricted to a modest number of community parent guidance temperament programs and have not received their due attention. In their recent work, however, Chess and Thomas, long-standing psychiatrists with forty years of clinical experience, step outside past boundaries and explore a panoply of clinical cases, including all age-periods, ranging from infancy to adulthood. Using the clinical data obtained from numerous case histories, the authors develop an insightful clinical system from which researchers and clinicians of mental health professionals, pediatricians and educators alike can benefit. Goodness of Fit: Clinical Applications, From Infancy through Adult Life aims to answer the question of how to create a healthy consonance between individuals and their environments in order to achieve optimal development, and will undoubtedly enhance both our understanding of psychological development and personality maturation as well as the clinical methods used to analyze them.
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First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
In 1956 Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas launched the pioneering
New York Longitudinal Study, a systematic investigation into the
concept of temperament that has been pursued to the present decade.
The findings from this study - that temperamental profiles of
infants, children, adolescents, and adults show specific individual
behavioral characteristics - are accepted as basic to the
psychological mechanism of behavioral functioning. Now, these two
preeminent authorities and teaches in the field of child and
adolescent psychiatry present an essential introduction to their
internationally recognized work. This volume takes the reader from
concept - including the definition of temperament and the studies
that support and expand upon that definition - to specific
explorations of temperament and its impact across various practice
settings and special populations.
Contents: Part I: Basic Concepts of Theory and Practice of Temperament. Our Initial Concept of Temperament. Our Initial Hypothesis. Our First Research Effort: From Failure to Success. We Launched the New York Longitudinal Study. Analysis of Data and the Definition and Rating of Temperament Definition and Rating of Temperament and Categories. The Clinical Interview for Temperament. The Concept of Goodness and Fit. Parent Guidance. Part II: New Applications to the Theory and Practice of Temperament. The Rapid Expansion of Temperament Theory and Practice Since 1970. Parent and Child Education About Temperament. Prevention and Early Intervention in Temperament Programs. The Kaiser Permanente Temperament Program. A New Mental Health Profession: The Temperament Counselor. Temperament and School Functioning. Temperament and Pediatric Practice. Temperament and Nursing. Temperament and Psychotherapy of Children. Temperament and Psychotherapy of Adolescents. Temperament and Psychotherapy of Adults. Temperament and the Handicapped Child. Temperament and Culture. Temperament in Consistency and Change. A Look to the Future.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
A selection of the year's outstanding contributions to the
understanding and treatment of the normal and disturbed child.
Stella Chess's many admirers throughout the world have long looked
forward to the day when she would produce her own textbook of child
psychiatry. They will not be disappointed in this thoughtful and
per ceptive account of the principles and practices of the subject,
written in collaboration with Dr. Hassibi. It has all the hallmarks
we have come to recognize as distinctive of the Chess approach to
child psychiatry-gentle yet subtle and penetrating, always
appreciative of the feelings and concerns of both the children and
their parents, well informed and critically aware of research
findings but far from over awed by the contributions of science,
and above all immensely practi cal. Anyone who wants to know how
one of the world's outstanding clinicians appraises what child
psychiatry has to offer could do no bet ter than to read this book.
Child psychiatry differs from general psychiatry in being con
cerned with a developing organism, and it is entirely appropriate
that the book begins with an account of child development and of
the prin cipal theories put forward to explain it. Chess and
Hassibi recognize the importance of theory in organizing ideas and
in suggesting expla nations, but they remain skeptical of how far
existing theories do in fact account for the outstanding issues in
development. They note the limitations of all theories in
explaining how development takes place and why individual
differences occur in the way they do."
Stella Chess's many admirers throughout the world have long looked
forward to the day when she would produce her own textbook of child
psychiatry. They will not be disappointed in this thoughtful and
per ceptive account of the principles and practices of the subject,
written in collaboration with Dr. Hassibi. It has all the hallmarks
we have come to recognize as distinctive of the Chess approach to
child psychiatry-gentle yet subtle and penetrating, always
appreciative of the feelings and concerns of both the children and
their parents, well informed and critically aware of research
findings but far from over awed by the contributions of science,
and above all immensely practi cal. Anyone who wants to know how
one of the world's outstanding clinicians appraises what child
psychiatry has to offer could do no bet ter than to read this book.
Child psychiatry differs from general psychiatry in being con
cerned with a developing organism, and it is entirely appropriate
that the book begins with an account of child development and of
the prin cipal theories put forward to explain it. Chess and
Hassibi recognize the importance of theory in organizing ideas and
in suggesting expla nations, but they remain skeptical of how far
existing theories do in fact account for the outstanding issues in
development. They note the limitations of all theories in
explaining how development takes place and why individual
differences occur in the way they do."
This book offers a realistic and eminently practical understanding
of the role temperament plays in development. The combination of
wisdom, common sense, and concrete clinical strategies found in
these pages will prove invaluable to psychiatric and health
professionals, teachers, and special educators. It also serves as a
benchmark text for advanced courses in child psychology and
psychiatry.
Stella Chess's many admirers throughout the world have long looked
forward to the day when she would produce her own textbook of child
psychiatry. They will not be disappointed in this thoughtful and
per ceptive account of the principles and practices of the subject,
written in collaboration with Dr. Hassibi. It has all the hallmarks
we have come to recognize as distinctive of the Chess approach to
child psychiatry-gentle yet subtle and penetrating, always
appreciative of the feelings and concerns of both the children and
their parents, well informed and critically aware of research
findings but far from over awed by the contributions of science,
and above all immensely practi cal. Anyone who wants to know how
one of the world's outstanding clinicians appraises what child
psychiatry has to offer could do no bet ter than to read this book.
Child psychiatry differs from general psychiatry in being con
cerned with a developing organism, and it is entirely appropriate
that the book begins with an account of child development and of
the prin cipal theories put forward to explain it. Chess and
Hassibi recognize the importance of theory in organizing ideas and
in suggesting expla nations, but they remain skeptical of how far
existing theories do in fact account for the outstanding issues in
development. They note the limitations of all theories in
explaining how development takes place and why individual
differences occur in the way they do.
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