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Preschool-Age Children

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Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents

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The aim of this chapter is to present a spectrum of treatments used for the preschool child. The age of the preschool child is customarily restricted to the span of brief years from toddlerhood (post-rapprochement) until entry into first grade—not nursery school, since children now start nursery school at 2 to 4 years old. But the term “preschool” is also used to refer to prelatency development—children, regardless of chronological age, between the separation-individuation phase and oedipal resolution who have not started the work of latency. The latter designation is not used in this chapter. Such children will be discussed in detail in the chapter on the treatment of the latency child. We shall restrict ourselves to the discussion of preschool children, ages 3 through 5 years or when the child starts first grade. For our purposes, this age span is appropriate, since children are seldom brought to a psychiatrist for treatment before the age of three (Geleerd, 1967). Younger children are usually referred to infant centers for developmental assessment and counseling of the parents.

Childhood is a chrysalis from which each must extricate himself. —D. H. Lawrence Fantasies of the Unconscious

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  1. Division of Child Adolescent and Family Psychiatry, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    G. Pirooz Sholevar M.D. (Clinical Professor and Director) (Clinical Professor and Director)

  2. Youth and Outpatient Services Children’s Psychiatric Hospital, University Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    Ronald M. Benson M.D. (Clinical Associate Professor and Director) (Clinical Associate Professor and Director)

  3. Department of Psychiatry Human Behavior School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA

    Barton J. Blinder M.D. (Clinical Associate Professor) (Clinical Associate Professor)

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Sours, J.A. (1980). Preschool-Age Children. In: Sholevar, G.P., Benson, R.M., Blinder, B.J. (eds) Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Child Behavior and Development. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6684-3_17

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