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• 1.   Child psychology: Taking account of children at last?

  This article discusses the need to examine children in their whole personhood when addressing the area of developmental psychology,

  

  Abstract:

  Developmental psychology, in its struggle to attain scientific status, has tended to be more concerned with child variables and child outcomes than with real live children. The habit of talking about 'the child' rather than about 'children' is indicative of this failure to address children in their whole personhood and also reflects a view of development as universal and predictable. more...

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  Republic of Ireland

  Irish Journal of Psychology, Vol: 27 Page: 8-15 2006
  Sheila Greene

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• 2.   'Forty Seven, Today You are Nine': Systematic Abuse in Irish Childcare Institutions

  This article discusses Bion's Affect Theory, in relation to the recent disclosure of systematic abuse in State-funded childcare institutions in Ireland

  

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  This paper discusses Bion's Affect Theory, in relation to the recent disclosure of systematic abuse in State-funded childcare institutions in Ireland. Exploring Meltzer's development of Bion's early work the paper describes the wider cultural and historical circumstances in which children and carers came to enter the physically and emotionally claustrophobic environment of the more...

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  Republic of Ireland

  Group Analysis, Vol: 39 Page: 25-35 2006
  Paul Shield

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• 3.   Psychology and grammar: The construction of autobiographical self

  This is an interdisciplinary discussion bringing grammar to bear on questions of self and identity in children in the linguistic constructionist tradition of theorists

  

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  This is an interdisciplinary discussion bringing grammar to bear on questions of self and identity in children in the linguistic constructionist tradition of theorists like M. Bamberg, N. Budwig and D. I. Slobin, and in the spirit of theorists like J. S. Bruner and R. Harré who advocate the development and use of grammatical analysis as a research strategy in psychology. Psychology has more...

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  Republic of Ireland

  Theory & Psychology, Vol: 11 Page: 147-170 2001
  Jean Quigley

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