Download Author: Eisenberg, Leon

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Poverty, Social Depreciation, and Child Development

In this chapter we shall attempt to set forth the alternative ways of viewing the findings that are evident wherever the so-called disadvantaged child has been studied. We hope to stimulate thoughtful consideration of the issues central to the effects of poverty and social depreciation. We are less concerned with persuading the reader to accept our view than to make him aware of the reasoning that underlies current viewpoints. (47 pp.)

Minimal Brain Dysfunction in Children

Few clinical problems incite such disputation as the concept of minimal brain dysfunction (MBD). There are those who deny its existence and others who see the syndrome in the majority of troublesome children. The confusion stems from an interaction of the following factors: the differing viewpoints of the professionals who encounter its manifestations; the variability of its manifestations in different settings; the variability in the syndrome itself; and the variable meanings inferred from the diagnosis by professionals and parents when it is encountered. (49 pp.)