Only-Child Experience and Adulthood

Informationen zum Autor BERNICE SORENSEN  has had a thirty-year career in counselling and psychotherapy, working in education, the NHS and employment programmes. She has a private practice and is an Associate of Cascade Training Associates. Being an only-child herself, she has a special interest in the phenomenon, and has written several articles, run workshops and set up the website www.onlychild.org.uk. Klappentext This book examines only-child experience in global perspective and offers an insight into the dilemmas and challenges only-children face as adults. Explored from both a social and psychological perspective, it reveals the complexity and multidimensional nature of the private and public worlds of the only-child. Zusammenfassung This book examines only-child experience in global perspective and offers an insight into the dilemmas and challenges only-children face as adults. Explored from both a social and psychological perspective, it reveals the complexity and multidimensional nature of the private and public worlds of the only-child. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART ONE: TRANSCENDING THE STEREOTYPES The Politics of the Only-Child The Research Framework Co-Researchers' Stories Only-Child Voices PART TWO: A MULTIPLICITY OF VOICES Research Data and the World Wide Web Stories from China and Taiwan Life-Stories Life-Stages PART THREE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THERAPY An Only-Child Archetype: A Folk-Tale The Only-Child Matrix Gathering the Threads

List of contents

Introduction PART ONE: TRANSCENDING THE STEREOTYPES The Politics of the Only-Child The Research Framework Co-Researchers' Stories Only-Child Voices PART TWO: A MULTIPLICITY OF VOICES Research Data and the World Wide Web Stories from China and Taiwan Life-Stories Life-Stages PART THREE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THERAPY An Only-Child Archetype: A Folk-Tale The Only-Child Matrix Gathering the Threads

Product details

• Authors: B Sorensen, B. Sorensen, Bernice Sorensen, SORENSEN BERNICE
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2008
• EAN: 9780230521018
• ISBN: 978-0-230-52101-8
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Family, Anthropology, personality, adolescence, Social Sciences, Clinical psychology, childhood, Social Psychology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Differential Psychology, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Social research & statistics, families, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Age groups & generations, Families—Social aspects, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Sociological Methods