Appalachia's children the challenge of mental health

Appalachia's children the challenge of mental health

This thoughtful, compassionate book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Southern Appalachian child -- his mental disorders and his adaptive strengths. Drawing upon his extensive fieldwork as a clinical child psychiatrist in Eastern Kentucky, Dr. Looff suggests means by which these...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Looff, David H., 1928-1995
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Lexington] University Press of Kentucky [1971]
Subjects:
Child psychopathology > Appalachian Region.
Poverty > Psychological aspects.
Mental health services > Appalachian Region.
Community mental health services.
Mental illness.
Children.
Infants.
Child psychiatry.
Community Mental Health Services
Mental Disorders
Child
Infant
Child Psychiatry
mental disorders.
children (people by age group)
infants.
Mental illness
Infants
Community mental health services
Children
Child psychiatry
Child psychopathology
Mental health services
Poverty > Psychological aspects
Social conditions
Psychopathologie > Enfants > Appalaches (États-Unis)
Appalachian Region > Social conditions.
Appalachian Region
Appalaches > Conditions sociales.
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Table of Contents:
  • Appalachian themes
  • The Manchuster Project
  • Power of the family
  • In the Clinic: dependency themes
  • In the Clinic: psychosexual themes
  • In the Clinic: communication patters
  • Family portrait
  • Some findings and comparisions
  • Some development conclusions
  • New health programs
  • New community programs
  • The region and its people
  • Operation of the field clinics
  • Mental health of the very poor.

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