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Appalachia's Children : The Challenge of Mental Health /

This thoughtful, compassionate book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Southern Appalachian child -- his mental disorders and his adaptive strengths. Drawing upon his extensive fieldwork as a clinical child psychiatrist in Eastern Kentucky, Dr. Looff suggests means by which these...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Looff, David H., 1928-1995
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Lexington] University Press of Kentucky [1971]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Appalachian themes
  • The Manchuster Project
  • Power of the family
  • In the Clinic: dependency themes
  • In the Clinic: psychosexual themes
  • In the Clinic: communication patters
  • Family portrait
  • Some findings and comparisions
  • Some development conclusions
  • New health programs
  • New community programs
  • The region and its people
  • Operation of the field clinics
  • Mental health of the very poor.