Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 210
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4422-5614-9 • Paperback • August 2015 • $47.00 • (£36.00)
978-1-4422-5613-2 • eBook • August 2015 • $44.50 • (£34.00)
Phyllis Brusiloff was the principal investigator of a national institute of mental health grant, replicating the program in four New York City day care centers. She also consulted to the Early Childhood Division of North Carolina and lectures across the country for programs in psychology, psychiatry, and early childhood education.
Mary Jane Witenberg was the epitome of a sensitive, supportive nursery school teacher who enhanced the lives of all the children in her classrooms.
Dr. Clarice Kestenbaum, who wrote the introduction, is currently Professor of Clinical Psychiatry emeritus and Training Director emeritus in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. The Emerging Child is still an integral part of her curriculum.
Background and Development of the Hudson Guild's Therapeutic Nursery Program
We Find Each Other
A Place to Work—A Place to Play
The Doll Corner
The Doctor Kit
The Water Table
The Block Corner
The Punching Bag
Clay
The Dart Board
Balls
Books
The Mini-World
Case Histories—Atypical Behavior
Primitive, Motor-driven, Self-destructive Harry
Deprived, Infantile Carmella
Depressed, Constricted, Withdrawn Rhoda
Sue
Infantile, Negative, Oppositional Seth
Aggressive, Volitive, Poor Impulse Control
Duane
Terry
Juan
Follow-up Contact with Schools
The Emerging Child is a well written, interesting, and informative text about young children in a therapeutic nursery...Through interpretation and sensitivity on the part of the teacher-therapist, the children begin to form interpersonal attachments which, it is hoped, will continue to stimulate them even after they have left the nursery.
— Alice S. Weininger
The focus of this book is the disturbed pre-school child. The authors provide specific guidelines for diagnosis and identification of such children. They also provide a wealth of examples of appropriate therapeutic help for the 4 and 5 year old child who is in need of such skilled intervention.
— Alice S. Honig
Mary Jane Witenberg and Phyllis Brusiloff write about a most important means of early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of developmental problems in preschool children.
— David E. Schecter