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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2008002650
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chandler, Caroline A. (Caroline Augusta), 1906-
Early child care : the new perspectives / Caroline A. Chandler, Reginald S. Lourie, and Ann DeHuff Peters ; edited by Laura L. Dittman.
p. cm.
Originally published: New York: Atherton Press, 1968.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-202-36218-2 (alk. paper)
1. Parent and child. 2. ChildrenInstitutional care. 3. Child psychology. I. Dittmann, Laura L. II. Lourie, Reginald S. III. Peters, Ann DeHuff. IV. Title.
BF723.P25C442008
362.7dc22
2008002650
ISBN 13: 978-0-202-36218-2 (pbk)
This is a book about the very young childinfant, toddler, and early preschoolin today's world. It grew out of a series of four conferences sponsored jointly by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Children's Hospital of Washington, D.C., and the Committee on Day Care of the Maternal and Child Health Section of the American Public Health Association. The conferences, held in Bethesda, Maryland, covered a span of almost two years: April 1964 through October 1965.
Each of the three sponsoring agencies represents a focal point where pressures from many groups concerned with improving the care of the young child were being felt with increasing intensity. Faced with a common concern, the three sponsoring agencies brought together a number of experts in the field of early child development to pool information and experience and to review research findings as a basis for sound planning for children under three years of age. It was out of this context that the name of the conference series, Early Child Care Re-examined, emerged.
Conference members were drawn from the fields of pediatrics, psychology, child psychiatry, education, cultural anthropology, and research in child development. They were working in a wide range of backgrounds and settings: teaching hospitals, child guidance clinics, day-care centers, and university research centers; others came from centers of education, both community-based and those associated with teachers' colleges. Their work with children, whether research, clinical, or both, encompassed the advantaged as well as the disadvantaged, the handicapped and the emotionally disturbed as well as the normal from premature infants to the preschool child.
The workshop discussions of the conferences were far-reaching in scope and depth, and from first to last were lively and stimulating. They were also, in the beginning, often stormy, highly charged, and anxiety producing. The papers brought to the meetings were subjected to the scrutiny and criticisms of the group as a whole, and these discussions provided the outline of this book. Many people contributed who are not directly represented in these final chapters, but their thinking has enriched the book. Those who participated most fully in the series of meetings are named on page x.
While consensus was finally reached on some of the fundamental principles of early development and on a few well-established research findingsa consensus on which this volume of guidelines is based the series ended as it began: there were no final answers, no comforting conclusions, not even a few unequivocal do's and don'ts. Unsatisfying as this outcome may be, it seems singularly appropriate in an area of research and development where openendedness is not only desirable but absolutely prerequisite.
C AROLINE A. C HANDLER , M.D.
Center for Studies of Child and
Family Mental Health,
National Institute of Mental Health
A NN D E H UFF P ETERS , M.D.
Chairman, Committee on Day Care,
Maternal and Child Health Committee,
American Public Health Association
Contributors
BETTYE M. CALDWELL, PH.D.
Professor of Child Development and Education
Director, Children's Center
Syracuse University and
Upstate Medical Center
State University of New York
Syracuse, New York
CAROLINE A. CHANDLER, M.D.
Consultant in Child Mental Health and Early Child Care
Center for Studies of Child and Family Mental Health
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, Maryland
CATHERINE S. CHILMAN, PH.D.
Research Division
Welfare Administration
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Washington, D.C.
LAURA L. DITTMANN, PH.D.
Institute for Child Study
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
JACOB L. GEWIRTZ, PH.D.
Chief, Section on Early Learning and Development
Laboratory of Psychology
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, Maryland
DOROTHY S. HUNTINGTON, PH.D.
Research Director, Infant Rearing Study
Department of Psychiatry
Children's Hospital, Washington, D.C.
REGINALD S. LOURIE, M.D.
Director, Department of Psychiatry
Children's Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Medical Director, Hillcrest Children's Center
Professor of Pediatrie Psychiatry,
George Washington University
ALLEN E. MARANS, M.D.
Psychiatric Consultant to Junior Village
Formerly, Program Director, Infant Rearing Study
Department of Psychiatry
Children's Hospital, Washington, D.C.
DALE R. MEERS
Research Associate, Infant Rearing Study
Children's Hospital
Washington, D.C.
LOIS BARCLAY MURPHY, PH.D.
Senior Consultant, Infant Rearing Study
Department of Psychiatry
Children's Hospital, Washington, D.C.
PETER B. NEUBAUER, M.D.
Director, Child Development Center
Jewish Board of Guardians
New York City
ELEANOR PAVENSTEDT, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Boston University School of Medicine
Lecturer, Tufts College Medical School
Staff Child Psychiatry, Tufts-Columbia Point Health Center
ANN DEHUFF PETERS, M.D.
Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health
School of Public Health
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
SALLY PROVENCE, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
