A Study of Training in Voluntary Control of Urination in a Group of Problem Children

Huschka, Mabel

doi:10.1097/00006842-194307000-00005

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“…For example, there is some evidence concerning the pernicious effects of coercive bowel training. As a preliminary step toward the objectification of clinical evidence, Huschka (38,39) made a study in child guidance clinics of the incidence of emotional disturbances as related to bowel and bladder training. She was interested in whether the training these disturbed children received showed immediate emotional consequences and whether later difficulties in personality adjustment in the same children could be attributed to these frustrations.…”

Section: The Anal Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychosocial Development in Infancy.

Watson¹

1963

Psychology of the Child: Personal, Social, and Disturbed Child Development.

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JLN THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER, THE BEHAVIOR AND EXPERIence of the infant from birth to about two years of age were explored. The regularities and variabilities of infant development were presented normatively. Age was the principal source of anchoring the various facts about infancy in a fashion which permitted an answer to the question, "What is the baby like at this age and what can he do?" General behavioral development during the course of infancy was described. For convenience of presentation, the infant was examined almost as if he existed in isolation, not, as is always the case, in a matrix of other persons. Actually, all of the behavior repertoire of infants which has been reported took place in a social setting. Many of the behavioral items can be modified, accelerated, and retarded by the persons who served as the agents of socialization. The infant is now to be examined in this social setting. The mother as the agent of socializationVarious persons serve as agents of socialization. As indicated in Chapter 4 the first and most important of these agents is the mother or mother surrogate. The most obvious thing about the behavior of 222

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Psychosocial Development in Infancy.

Watson¹

1963

Psychology of the Child: Personal, Social, and Disturbed Child Development.

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“…She found that children who were "coercively" trained manifested "undesirable" responses such as constipation, fear, and rage more frequently than did children who were "adequately" trained; but there was no follow-up to correlate these responses with any permanent effects upon personality, and no control of normal children was used for comparison with the problem children. In a similar study, the same author secured data on the reaction of 215 problem children to the institution of bladder training (72).…”

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