Post Discharge School Achievement of Institutionalized Children: An Exploration of the Effects of Early Inter-personal Experiences on the Academic Achievement and Personal Adjustment of 37 Emotionally Disturbed Boys Subsequent to Residential Treatment at Astor Home for Children (1953–1959)
Abstract
Background of the Study. Important as a prime factor in the development of normal ego functioning is the establishing of good relationships with certain focal figures in our immediate social environment. These relationships provide models for identification and a powerful influence in our future development. It is in this immediate environment that the newborn child must find sufficient security essential to the process of establishing relationships. His attitudes and behavior are markedly influenced by the family into which he is born and in which he grows. The fundamental pattern established here is never completely eradicated, even though it may be modified and changed as life proceeds. For many years, psychoanalysts and psychiatrists have stressed the influence of early family experience on the child's emotional, physical, intellectual and spiritual life. When a child is reared in a healthy natural home setting where good relationships exist, especially between mother and child, we expect to see a well adjusted, normal, functioning personality developed. Conversely, should the family constellation be characterized by emotional upheaval and poor intra-familial relationships, the child would be seriously affected.
Subject Area
Social work|Clinical psychology|Individual & family studies
Recommended Citation
McKenna, Brother Bernard, "Post Discharge School Achievement of Institutionalized Children: An Exploration of the Effects of Early Inter-personal Experiences on the Academic Achievement and Personal Adjustment of 37 Emotionally Disturbed Boys Subsequent to Residential Treatment at Astor Home for Children (1953–1959)" (1962). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30670830.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30670830
