Child Temperament: New Thinking About the Boundary Between Traits and Illness

Child Temperament: New Thinking About the Boundary Between Traits and Illness
ISBN-10
039370730X
ISBN-13
9780393707304
Category
Psychology
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2013-09-23
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
David Rettew

Description

Exploring the differences between temperamental traits and psychological disorders. What is the difference between a child who is temperamentally sad and one who has depression? Can a child be angry by temperament without being mentally ill? Here, David C. Rettew discusses the factors that can propel children with particular temperamental tendencies toward or away from more problematic trajectories.

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