B. Sorensen

Only-Child Experience and Adulthood

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines only-child experience in global perspective and offers an insight into the dilemmas and challenges only-children face as adults. Explored from both a social and psychological perspective, it reveals the complexity and multidimensional nature of the private and public worlds of the only-child.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-52101-8
• 2008
• Seitenzahl: 217
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 144mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 387g
• ISBN-13: 9780230521018
• ISBN-10: 0230521010
• Artikelnr.: 22930566

Autorenporträt

BERNICE SORENSEN  has had a thirty-year career in counselling and psychotherapy, working in education, the NHS and employment programmes. She has a private practice and is an Associate of Cascade Training Associates. Being an only-child herself, she has a special interest in the phenomenon, and has written several articles, run workshops and set up the website www.onlychild.org.uk.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART ONE: TRANSCENDING THE STEREOTYPES The Politics of the Only-Child The Research Framework Co-Researchers' Stories Only-Child Voices PART TWO: A MULTIPLICITY OF VOICES Research Data and the World Wide Web Stories from China and Taiwan Life-Stories Life-Stages PART THREE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THERAPY An Only-Child Archetype: A Folk-Tale The Only-Child Matrix Gathering the Threads