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Herschkowitz N, Herschkowitz EC. 2002. A good start in life: Understanding your child's brain and behavior. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press, 283 pp.

Annotation: This book discusses child brain and behavior development during pregnancy and the first six years. It is divided into four parts covering life in the womb and birth; the first year; the second year; and years three to six. Topics include brain development in the womb; birth; exploring; comfort and communications; regions of the brain; motor, language, play, and daily life milestones; discovery; toddlers and temperament; gaining competence; living together; and paths to personality. The book also provides ten guideposts for parents, a glossary, references, and an index.

Contact: National Academies Press, 500 Fifth Street, N.W., Keck 360, Washington, DC 20001, Telephone: (202) 334-3313 Secondary Telephone: (888) 624-8373 Fax: (202) 334-2451 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.nap.edu Available in libraries. Document Number: ISBN 0-309-07639-0.

Keywords: Behavior development, Brain, Child behavior, Child development, Infant development, Learning, Motor development, Personality development, Prenatal development, Speech development

Blumenthal SJ, ed. 1994. Papers and abstracts from the symposium on women's mental health: Issues for the 90s. Journal of Women's Health 3(6):453-497,

Annotation: This reprint contains papers and abstracts focusing on various issues in women's mental health. The papers were originally prepared for a symposium at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in San Francisco, May 25, 1993. The papers focus on gender differences as a contributing factor to other conditions such as: the effect of gender differences on the incidence and prevalence of mental disorders, on the biological and psychosocial factors, on treatment, and on the cause of those differences; on the relations between gender and personality development and psychopathology; on women and depression; on panic disorders and women; and on eating disorders.

Keywords: Conferences, Depression, Eating disorders, Gender bias, Mental disorders, Mental health, Panic disorder, Personality development, Sex role, Treatment, Women

Greenspan SI. 1993. Playground politics: Understanding the emotional life of your school-age child. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Publishing, 314 pp.

Annotation: This book describes the phases of emotional development which children experience from age 5 through 12 as they move away from emotional dependence on families. The author describes three phases. The first phase is when children's lives are centered on themselves and their families; the second phase is characterized as playground politics where other children play a role; and the third phase focuses on the development of an internal identity separate from family and friends.

Contact: Pearson Higher Education, Addison-Wesley , One Lake Street, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458, Telephone: (201) 236-7000 Contact Phone: (800) 822-6339 Web Site: http://www.pearsonhighered.com/ Available in libraries.

Keywords: Adolescent development, Behavior, Child health, Child psychology, Emotional development, Personality development, Psychosocial development

Harvard School of Public Health. 1993. Introduction to personality and cognitive development: Reading list. Boston, MA: Harvard School of Public Health, 2 pp.

Greenspan SI. 1992. Infancy and early childhood: The practice of clinical assessment and intervention with emotional and developmental changes. Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 814 pp.

Annotation: This book provides a systematic framework for the clinical assessment, treatment, and prevention of emotional and developmental problems in infants and young children. The first chapter describes the six developmental levels that affect a child's maturation. Subsequent chapters focus on taking a developmental history, utilizing the Functional Emotional Assessment Scale, and selecting the appropriate therapeutic approach. Several chapters discuss floor time activities for parents, educators, and therapists. Interactive, regulatory, and multisystem developmental disorders are discussed. Appendices include discussions of speech pathology, occupational therapy, and ego development as well as a list of available assessment tools and a guide to establishing clinical infant and child development programs.

Contact: International Universities Press, Inc., 59 Boston Post Road, Madison, CT 06443, Telephone: (203) 245-4000 Fax: (203) 245-0775 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.iup.com/ Available in libraries. Document Number: ISBN 0-8236-2633-4.

Keywords: Assessment, Assessment tools, Case studies, Child development, Child health, Child psychology, Children with special health care needs, Developmental psychology, Developmental stages, Early intervention, Ego development, Emotional development, Infant development, Infant health, Infants with special health care needs, Mental health, Occupational therapy, Personality development, Program development, Psychotherapy, Speech tests

Curry NE, Johnson CN. 1990. Beyond self-esteem: Developing a genuine sense of human value. Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 177 pp. (Research monograph of the National Association for the Education of Young Children; v. 4)

Annotation: This research monograph, written for teachers, administrators, parents and policy makers, provides a broad framework for understanding self-esteem and its role in self-development of children. The authors discuss how young children, from infancy through the primary years, develop a sense of self-value and how parents and educators, can help promote young children's self-esteem development in the home and classroom. The monograph includes a summary and implications for policy and research.

Contact: National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1313 L Street, N.W., Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005, Telephone: (202) 232-8777 Secondary Telephone: (800) 424-2460 Fax: (202) 328-1846 E-mail: Web Site: http://www.naeyc.org Available in libraries.

Keywords: Child health, Cognitive development, Development, Infant health, Infants, Kindergarten, Personality, Preschool children, Self esteem, Toddlers, Young children

Covey SR. 1989. The seven habits of highly effective people: Restoring the character ethic. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 360 pp.

Annotation: This book offers an approach to professional, business, and personal relationships based on the character building effects of seven principles and habits of behavior and thought. The underlying principles address theses topics: personal vision, personal leadership, personal management, interpersonal leadership, empathic communication, creative cooperation, of balanced self renewal. The habits are: be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win/win, seek first to understand, then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw. Two appendices offer information on perception of others, and time management for a business day.

Contact: Simon and Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas , New York, NY 10020, Telephone: (212) 698-7000 Contact Phone: (800) 223-2336 Web Site: http://www.simonsays.com/ $24.00. Document Number: ISBN 0-671-66398-4.

Keywords: Character, Personality development, Problem solving, Social values, Teamwork, Time management

Greenspan SI, Pollack GH, eds. 1980. The course of life: Psychoanalytic contributions toward understanding personality development, Vol. I: Infancy and childhood. Adelphi, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Mental Health Study Center, 660 pp.

Annotation: This is the first book of a three part series which focuses on studying and understanding the process of human development across the lifespan through a psychoanalytic developmental psychology perspective. According to the editors, each infant, child, adolescent, adult, and aged person is characterized by distinct biological capacities, psychological tendencies, and social interests that are interactive and cumulative, forming a complex matrix that constitutes a unique personality. This volume covers the period from infancy to early childhood.

Keywords: Child health, Child psychology, Infant health, Mental health, Personality development

Greenspan SI, Pollack GH, eds. 1980. The course of life: Psychoanalytic contributions toward understanding personality development, Vol. III: Adulthood and the aging process. Adelphi, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Mental Health Study Center, 608 pp.

Annotation: This is the third book of a three part series which focuses on studying and understanding the process of human development across the lifespan through a psychoanalytic developmental psychology perspective. According to the editors, each infant, child, adolescent, adult, and aged person is characterized by distinct biological capacities, psychological tendencies, and social interests that are interactive and cumulative, forming a complex matrix that constitutes a unique personality. This volume covers adulthood.

Keywords: Mental health, Personality development, Psychology, Women', s health

U.S. Department of Health Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. 1968. Perspectives on human deprivation: Biological, psychological, and sociological. [Rockville, MD]: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 346 pp.

Annotation: This study is a broad-based assessment of psychosocial deprivation undertaken to ascertain extent of the problem, to identity gaps in knowledge and understanding, and to determine the implications of the findings for research policy and social action programs. The topics studied were psychosocial deprivation and personality development; influences of biological, psychological and social deprivations upon learning and performance; socialization and social structure; biological substrates of development and behavior; and research policy for psychosocial deprivation.

Keywords: Child development, Learning, Personality development, Psychology, Psychosocial development, Research, Social change, Socialization

Spiro ME, Spiro AG. 1965. Children of the kibbutz. New York, NY: Schocken Books, 500 pp.

Annotation: This book is a study of child training and personality intended to serve as a detailed case study of collective education in an Israeli kibbutz to provide an understanding of the socialization system that characterizes the kibbutz movement. The second aim of this study is to test the predictive value of ontogenetic culture and personality theory by attempting to related selected personality characteristics of the sabras of the kibbutz to selected aspects of its socialization system. The study has both descriptive and theoretical aims.

Keywords: Child development, Israel, Personality development, Socialization

Fraiberg SH. 1959. The magic years: Understanding and handling the problems of early childhood. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 305 pp.

Annotation: This book describes personality and social development during the first five years of life and describes and discusses some of the typical problems that emerge with each developmental stage. Topics include mental health, infant development, child rearing practices, helping children build a conscience and overcome fears, and sex education.

Keywords: Child development, Personality development, Psychosocial development, Young children

Kentucky State Department of Health, Bureau of Maternal and Child Health. 1958, 1959. Institute on growth and development . Louisville, KN: Kentucky State Department of Health, Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, 2 v.

Annotation: These two volumes report two institutes; one held in 1958, and one held in 1959. The first volume discusses concepts of pediatric nursing care; growth and development of the fetus in utero; prenatal influences; nutrition of the mother in pregnancy and before pregnancy; emotional factors in pregnancy; characteristics of the newborn infant, full-term and premature; nutrition of the newborn and premature infant; early mother-child relationships; implications for pediatric nursing; physical growth and development of the preschool age child; personality development of the infant and young child; and developmental care and guidance of infants and young children. The second volume, for the 1959 meeting, discusses highlights of the 1958 Institute; a pediatrician's view of growth and development of infants and children; nutritional aspects of growth and development; helping parents with feeding problems of young children; emotional growth and development of the preschool child; congenital and rheumatic heart disease; mental retardation; handicapping conditions; emotional factors associated with physical disability; speech therapy; and handicapping conditions.

Keywords: Child development, Child nutrition, Children with developmental disabilities, Conferences, Congenital heart defects, Emotional development, Fetal development, Mental retardation, Mother child relations, Newborn infants, Nutrition, Pediatric nursing, Personality development, Pregnancy, Prenatal influences, Rheumatic fever, Speech therapy

Caplan G. 1956. Mental health aspects of social work in public health: Based on the proceedings of an institute given by the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, June 6-8, 1955. Washington, DC: U.S. Children's Bureau, 293 pp.

Annotation: This report of the proceedings of an institute on the mental health aspects of social work discuss ingredients of personality and personality development, epidemiological ideas regarding mental health and mental ill-health, emotional implications of pregnancy, origin and development of mother-child relationships, mother-child relationships during the first year of life, consultation, the family health clinic, the role of the social worker in preventive psychiatry for mothers and children, mental health consultation in schools, the disturbance of the mother-child relationship by unsuccessful attempts at abortion, the mental hygiene role of the nurse in maternal and child care. The membership of the institute is also listed. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Abortion, Conferences, Epidemiology, MCH nurses, Mental health, Mother child relations, Personality, Personality development, Pregnancy, Schools, Social work, State MCH programs

Hymes JL. 1952. A healthy personality for your child. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 23 pp. (Children's Bureau publication; no. 337-1952)

Annotation: This pamphlet is a popular version of part of the Fact Finding Digest prepared for the Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth, Washington, D.C., 1950. That publication pulls together what is known about the way personality grows and what shapes it this way and that. This pamphlet talks about the part parents can have in helping their children achieve emotional and social health. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Child development, Conferences, Pamphlets, Personality development

Faegre ML. 1952. Discussion aid for A healthy personality for your child. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Children's Bureau, 16 pp. (Children's Bureau publication; no. 338-1952)

Annotation: This pamphlet has been prepared for use by parent study groups with the Children's Bureau bulletin A Healthy Personality for Your Child which was a product of the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth, Washington, D.C., 1950. The booklet is concerned with the point of view through which adults see the child and how parents feel about themselves. It is within this framework that the booklet presents its specific facts about child growth and suggestions for living with children. It provides suggestions for discussions for children in infancy through adolescence, suggestions for how to conduct groups, and a list of useful materials. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org

Keywords: Pamphlets, Child development, Personality development

Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth. 1951. A healthy personality for every child: A digest of the fact finding report to the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth. [Raleigh, NC]: Health Publications Institute, 197 pp.

Annotation: This report of a fact finding group preparing for the Midcentury White House Conference discusses the making of a healthy personality in children and the implications for the conduct of social institutions including the family, church, school, health services, social services, and courts.

Keywords: Child welfare, Children, Conferences, Personality development, United States, Youth

Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth. 1950. For every child a healthy personality: A digest of the fact finding report to the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth. [Washington, DC]: National Publishing Company, 170 pp.

Annotation: This report of a fact finding group preparing for the Midcentury White House Conference discusses the making of a healthy personality in children and the implications for the conduct of social institutions including the family, church, school, heath services, social services, and courts.

Keywords: Child welfare, Children, Conferences, Personality development, United States, Youth

Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth. 1950. Children and youth at the midcentury: Report on youth, national organizations, Federal Government. [Washington, DC]: National Publishing Company, 122 pp.

Annotation: When this Conference was organized, four advisory councils were established to carry out its work. This publication contains the reports of three of these councils. The first report is by young people from the Advisory Council on Youth Participation. It is about the responsibility of adults toward youth, and about adult regard for their views. The second report is from the Council on Participation of National Organizations. This report gives a broad view of the services and programs of these organizations for children and adolescents. The third report is from the Council on Federal Government Participation. It shows the extent to which people have considered it desirable to put their Federal Government to work in building programs for children and adolescents. It illustrates how these programs contribute to healthy personality development in children and adolescents.

Keywords: Adults, Children, Conferences, Federal MCH programs, National organizations, Personality development, Youth

Seen MJE. 1950. Symposium on the Healthy Personality: Transactions of special meetings of Conference on Infancy and Childhood, June 8-9 and July 3-4, 1950, New York, NY—Supplement II: Problems of infancy and childhood—Transactions of fourth conference, March 1950. New York, NY: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 298 pp.

Annotation: This symposium consists of the final papers and the informal discussions of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation's Conference on Infancy and Childhood centered upon three papers prepared at the invitation of the Fact Finding Committee of the Midcentury White House Conference. These papers discuss working toward healthy personality, growth and crises of the healthy personality, constitutional and prenatal factors, and the social psychology of mental health.

Keywords: Child mental health, Conferences, Developmental psychology, Personality

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