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Muris, Peter; Ollendick, Thomas H. – Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2005
A substantial proportion of children and adolescents come to suffer from psychological disorders. This article focuses on the temperament factors that are involved in the pathogenesis of child psychopathology. It is argued that besides the reactive temperament factor of emotionality/neuroticism, the regulative process of effortful control also…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Etiology, Psychopathology, Adolescents
Lang, Janet M. – 1980
Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) is predicated on a theory of causality. According to Ellis (1962), beliefs regarding an event, and not the event itself, cause emotional reactions. Mentally healthy persons practice this reational theory of causality. Neurotic persons accept an irrational theory of causality based on coincidental or correlational…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Change Strategies, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
Eissler, Ruth S., Ed.; And Others – 1968
Twenty-seven papers treat aspects of the psychoanalytic study of the child. Problems of psychopathology and therapy considered are the fantasy of the phallic woman, the use of child analysis, the background of perversions, variables in the production of neurotic disturbances, treatment of narcissistic personality disorders, and problems of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blindness, Body Image, Case Records