Playing with fire : children, adolescents, and firesetting /

Rural and urban residents accustomed to seeing fire engines racing with sirens wailing and lights flashing are unaware of the problem of juvenile-set fires. Firesetting behaviors among children and adolescents are serious and have associated with it, serious individual and societal costs. Every year...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Omar, Hatim A. (Editor ), Howell Bowling, Carrie (Editor ), Merrick, Joav, 1950- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2013.
Colección:Pediatrics, Child and Adolescent Health (Series Editor: Joav Merrick - National Institute of Child H.
Temas:
Pyromania in children > United States.
Pyromania > United States.
Fire behavior in children > Research > United States.
Pyromanie > États-Unis.
Enfants et feu > Recherche > États-Unis.
MEDICAL > Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Pyromania
Pyromania in children
Juvenile firesetters.
Adolescents.
Children.
Firesetters.
Arsonists.
Crime.
Counseling.
Safety education.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Rural and urban residents accustomed to seeing fire engines racing with sirens wailing and lights flashing are unaware of the problem of juvenile-set fires. Firesetting behaviors among children and adolescents are serious and have associated with it, serious individual and societal costs. Every year, several thousand children and adolescents aged 14 years and younger in the United States alone are injured or killed. Firesetting, pyromania and arson are topics that have existed in the literature since Sigmund Freud explained firesetting through his psychoanalytic model. Helen Yarnell's studies.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781629484747
1629484741

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