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TITLE: UNHAPPY
CHILDREN: Reasons and
Remedies AUTHOR: Smith, Heather ISBN hb: 1 85343 308 X ISBN pb: 1 85343 301 2 PAGES: 250 LIST PRICE pb: £ 30.00 ($45.00) LIST PRICE pb: £ 15.95 ($25.00) PUB DATE: 1995
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TITLE: UNHAPPY
CHILDREN: Reasons and
Remedies AUTHOR: Smith, Heather ISBN hb: 1 85343 308 X ISBN pb: 1 85343 301 2 PAGES: 250 LIST PRICE pb: £ 30.00 ($45.00) LIST PRICE pb: £ 15.95 ($25.00) PUB DATE: 1995
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When children's emotional needs are not met, they become unhappy. Unhappy children reveal their distress both at home and at school through fear, anxiety and often troublesome behaviour which is not easy to comprehend or to handle. Many children, during the ordinary course of growing up, can experience events that are a challenge to their emotional well-being, for example, the divorce or separation of their parents or the death of a precious and well-loved member of the family. Others find it difficult to accept moving house, or school or the arrival of a baby brother or sister. Some find it impossible to cope with bullying at school. There are also children who simply need a great deal of understanding and support to surmount the handicap of being brought up by adults who are inadequate individuals and who submit them to damaging parenting which can include physical and sexual abuse. Three fundamental questions run through this book. What are the situations a child might encounter when growing up that can lead to a threat to his or her emotional well being? What emotional needs are not being met? What can be done to help that child to recover a sense of well being and move on? In dealing with these questions the emphasis throughout is on the child's feelings but not to the exclusion of the feelings of the parents. Remarkably free of jargon, the book presents the emotional problems of children in depth, and a variety of ways of dealing with those problems. The text is liberally illustrated throughout with lively examples of children the author has encountered. For any professional engaged in working with children, in education, social work, medicine, or therapy, this book is an indispensable introduction to the emotional life of children with problems and how to work with them. 'The book draws on considerable learning but this is carried lightly and theoretical considerations do not obtrude to spoil the flow of the narrative, which is also enlivened by frequent brief case histories.' University of Cambridge, Institute of Education Newsletter.
'This excellent book explores in depth why many children are unhappy.
Its publication is most timely. All those with a responsibility for
children - parents, teachers, youth leaders, social workers, and counsellors
- need to read the whole book, if they are to benefit from it.'
Education
'Unhappy Children is immensely readable. This is the sort of psychology
that ought to be absorbed by all teachers in training, and others who work
with children.'
Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties: Journal of the AWCEBD
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