TY  - BOOK
AU  - Polansky,Norman A.
AU  - Borgman,Robert D.
AU  - De Saix,Christine
TI  - Roots of futility
T2  - The Jossey-Bass behavioral science series
SN  - 0875891500
AV  - HV741 .P58
U1  - 362.7/1 
PY  - 1972///
CY  - San Francisco
PB  - Jossey-Bass
KW  - Child abuse
KW  - Appalachian Region
KW  - People with social disabilities
KW  - Mother and child
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Frustration
KW  - United States
KW  - Mother-Child Relations
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Socioeconomic Factors
N1  - Bibliography: p. 257-266; Poor as job's turkey -- When is a child neglected? -- Desolation -- Futility in a cultural context -- Design of a diagnostic study -- Psychic maturity and maternal competence -- Transmission of futility -- Impact on the child -- Infantilization -- Verbal accessibility in diagnosis -- Exercises in futility -- Breaking the chain -- Childhood level of living scale -- Maternal characteristics scale -- Infantilization scale
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/rootsoffutility00polarich
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL5286752M
ER  -