Slow Grows the Child

Psychosocial Aspects of Growth Delay

Brian Stabler, Louis E. Underwood

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781032751733
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040025604
• Topic: Psychologie
• Subtopic: Pédiatrie

Originally published in 1986, Slow Grows the Child came out of a symposium held in Washington D.C. in 1984 which brought together researchers and practitioners in the field producing recommendations for future research. It was the beginning of an informal network among researchers. In the 1970s and 1980s, the odds that a short-statured person would be socially and emotionally fulfilled were judged by some to be not very good. There was a pervasive belief that equated tallness with strength and shortness with weakness and a lack of social desirability. The recognition that delays in growth could be modified by medical therapies had led to increased awareness of psychological and social effects on short stature children. There had been little consensus about how best to measure the psychological and social adjustment of short individuals. It was hoped this title would advance understanding of the social and psychological experience of growth delay and increase the odds that medical and psychological intervention would produce the most desirable outcome.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Original Title
• Original Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: Shortening the Odds in a Tall World
• Chapter 1 Longitudinal Evaluation of Behavior Patterns in Children with Short Stature
• Chapter 2 Academic and Emotional Difficulties Associated with Constitutional Short Stature
• Chapter 3 Effects of Short Stature on Social Competence
• Chapter 4 Psychosocial Aspects of Short Stature: The Day to Day Context
• Chapter 5 The Relationship of Academic Achievement and the Intellectual Functioning and Affective Conditions of Hypopituitary Children
• Chapter 6 Long-Term Social Follow-up of Growth Hormone Deficient Adults Treated with Growth Hormone During Childhood
• Chapter 7 Post-Treatment Follow-up of Growth Hormone Deficient Patients: Psychosocial Status
• Chapter 8 Psychosocial Impact of Long-Term Growth Hormone Therapy
• Chapter 9 Cognitive Development in Turner Syndrome
• Chapter 10 Turner Syndrome Versus Constitutional Short Stature: Psychopathology and Reactions to Height
• Chapter 11 The Effects of Growth on Intellectual Function in Children and Adolescents
• Chapter 12 Environmentally Based Failure to Thrive: Diagnostic Subtypes and Early Prognosis
• Chapter 13 Environment and Intelligence: Reversible Impairment of Intellectual Growth in the Syndrome of Abuse Dwarfism
• Chapter 14 Size Versus Age: Ambiguities in Parenting Short-Statured Children
• Author Index
• Subject Index