The Nursery Age Child

by Jenny Davids

Overview

This book aims to facilitate the understandings of nursery age children, that is, children around three, four and five years, and their parents. Children of these ages are particularly fascinating. The wealth of their growing minds is apparent in their play and in their widening capacity to express themselves in words. It is a time of much discovery and experimentation, accompanied often by excitement and anxiety. There is something open-minded and open-hearted about children of these years. The author's views on nursery age children have been based on observing and working with them over the past twenty years, in various settings, including their homes, nursery schools and hospitals, and as a psychologist and child psychotherapist, in assessments and individual psychotherapy. She has also learnt much in working with families and with groups of parents .The book is influenced and informed by the writings of Sigmund Freud, Donald and Clare Winnicott, Anna Freud, Selma Fraiberg, and Jean Piaget.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367106836
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2019
Series:	The Karnac Developmental Psychology Series
Pages:	98
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Jenny Davids

Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Foreword , Introduction , The child’s view of himself , The child’s view of the world around him , Discoveries and discovering , Separation , Sleep and its complexities , Additions: relationships with siblings , Words and thinking , The imaginary and the real , The sense of “I” and self-esteem , The world of relationships , Big school