Tackling Selective Mutism: A Guide for Professionals and by Alice Sluckin, Benita Rae Smith

By Alice Sluckin, Benita Rae Smith

Bringing jointly the most recent learn and knowing on selective mutism, this edited booklet supplies crucial info at the a number of remedy and remedy concepts. specialists within the fields of speech and language remedy, psychology, tune remedy schooling and communique supply quite a lot of specialist views at the situation, whereas case stories from individuals with selective mutism, previous victims and oldsters show the private impression. The ebook additionally clarifies what help somebody with selective mutism is probably going to want at domestic, tuition and in social events. This definitive quantity on selective mutism can be key examining for execs corresponding to speech and language therapists, academic psychologists, baby psychiatrists, baby and adolescent psychological medical experts and someone operating with selective mutism in healing and academic settings, in addition to kin short of a more in-depth knowing of what selective mutism is and the way they could aid.

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By Alice Sluckin, Benita Rae Smith

Bringing jointly the most recent learn and knowing on selective mutism, this edited booklet supplies crucial info at the a number of remedy and remedy concepts. specialists within the fields of speech and language remedy, psychology, tune remedy schooling and communique supply quite a lot of specialist views at the situation, whereas case stories from individuals with selective mutism, previous victims and oldsters show the private impression. The ebook additionally clarifies what help somebody with selective mutism is probably going to want at domestic, tuition and in social events. This definitive quantity on selective mutism can be key examining for execs corresponding to speech and language therapists, academic psychologists, baby psychiatrists, baby and adolescent psychological medical experts and someone operating with selective mutism in healing and academic settings, in addition to kin short of a more in-depth knowing of what selective mutism is and the way they could aid.

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Is limited; and when new functions are interposed in the circuit, as modern civilization is constantly requiring us to do, there comes a period, sooner or later . . 20 Although neurasthenia was by no means a disease restricted solely to Americans,21 Beard viewed it as a particularly American disease. 23 Beard sided with the optimists: the “evil of American nervousness,” he insisted, “tends, within certain limits, to correct itself. . Social customs with the needs of the times shall be modified, and as a consequence .

Instead of insisting that men’s nervous exhaustion created weakness of the will, they determined that weakness was the cause of men’s nervous problems. 45 In a society continually worried about stripping men of their masculinity, the story of the price of progress has had to be told very carefully. And differences between men and women—in their skills, their strengths, their weaknesses—have had to be continually emphasized in the interest of maintaining the status quo. 48 Doctors shied away from applying the label of hysteria to men because of its association with women.

Has passed . . 73 Elevating women’s work to a science, she believed, could free society from the mother-worship—the “matriolatry,” as she called it—that had long ensnared women in the sticky web of domesticity. At first blush it looked as though mental hygiene’s ideas about scientific child-rearing practices could offer women a new, improved status. But in the end, science did not offer women the autonomy that Gilman and others had hoped for. The idea of motherhood as scientific enterprise seemed only to confirm that women should be trained for motherhood and nothing else,74 reaffirming middle-class women’s place in the home.

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