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Book SynopsisThe Hudsons Guild is a long established neighborhood house which offers social, educational, psychiatric, and psychological services to the residents of Chelsea, who are often socially, economically, and educationally, deprived. The many activities of the Hudson Guild Neighborhood House included a mental hygiene clinic also called the Counseling Service, and the operation of a day care center for the children of working mothers. Dr. David Wolitzky describes the program: In 1956 the staffs of these two independent services embarked on a cooperative continuing venture, the establishment and operation of the Therapeutic Nursery Group (TNG). The aim of the TNG is to provide emotionally and behaviorally disturbed pre-school children with a group play therapy experience under the leadership of a special nursery group-teacher-therapist. The basic rationale of this program is that the early detection and treatment of psychological disturbances serves as a constructive influence on the child''
Trade ReviewThe 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
Table of ContentsBackground 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Behavior Primitive, Motor-driven, Self-destructive Harry Deprived, Infantile Carmella Depressed, Constricted, Withdrawn Rhoda Sue Infantile, Negative, Oppositional Seth Aggressive, Volitive, Poor Impulse Control Duane Terry Juan Follow-up Contact with Schools
