Studies of Troublesome Children

<p><strong>Tavistock Press</strong> was established as a co-operative venture between the <strong>Tavistock Institute</strong> and <strong>Routledge & Kegan Paul</strong> (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. <br> This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by <strong>Routledge,</strong> 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name <em>The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press</em>.<br> Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1966 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.</p> Introduction; Part I PART I Thirty-three Troublesome Children; Chapter 1 Chapter One Children in Stable Families; Chapter 2 Chapter Two Children with a Degree of Stressful Family Experience; Chapter 3 CHAPTER THREE Children in Critically Stressful Family Situations; Chapter 4 CHAPTER FOUR General Conclusions from the Case Studies; Chapter 5 CHAPTER FIVE Pointers to Treatment; Chapter 6 CHAPTER SIX Remedies; Part II PART II Truants; Chapter 7 CHAPTER SEVEN A Study of Truants; Part III PART III Towards an Understanding of Behaviour Disturbance; Chapter 8 CHAPTER EIGHT A Law of Multiple Congenital Impairment; Chapter 9 CHAPTER NINE Types of Maladjustment; Chapter 10 CHAPTER TEN A General Theory of Human Motivation; APPENDIX I The Delinquency Prediction Instrument; APPENDIX II Family Patterns and Types of Maladjustment; APPENDIX III Three Examples of Borderline Maladjustment; APPENDIX IV Techniques of Diagnosis; Bibliography; Index;