A Psychology of Growth

Abstract

This book is based on a series of lectures on psychology which the author has given to student nurses. The publisher recommends it for professional groups in child care and also for parents. It should be a good introductory text for nurses, physicians, teachers and other professionals. Part of it would be helpful to parents too. But other parts, which emphatically and no doubt justifiably blame parents for many behavior problems, would create only guilt and further confusion in the parents to whom it applied.

The author discusses such topics as normal emotional development, feeding, toilet training, companionship, discipline, intelligence, mental testing, schooling, fears, enuresis, stuttering, stealing.