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Title Playing with fire : children, adolescents, and firesetting / editors, Hatim A. Omar, Carrie Howell Bowling, and Joav Merrick (Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel, and others).

Publication Info. Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Pediatrics, Child and Adolescent Health (Series Editor: Joav Merrick - National Institute of Child H
Pediatrics, Child and Adolescent Health (Series Editor: Joav Merrick - National Institute of Child H.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Rural and urban residents accustomed to seeing fire engines racing with sirens wailing and lights flashing are unaware of the problem of juvenile-set fires. Firesetting behaviors among children and adolescents are serious and have associated with it, serious individual and societal costs. Every year, several thousand children and adolescents aged 14 years and younger in the United States alone are injured or killed. Firesetting, pyromania and arson are topics that have existed in the literature since Sigmund Freud explained firesetting through his psychoanalytic model. Helen Yarnell's studies.
Contents PLAYING WITH FIRE CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND FIRESETTING; PLAYING WITH FIRE CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND FIRESETTING; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND FIRESETTING; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; FIRESETTER; PYROMANIA; RESEARCH; REFERENCES; SECTION ONE: CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND FIRESETTING; Chapter 2 SELF-REPORTED JUVENILE FIRESETTING; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; REVIEW OF LITERATURE; SUMMARY OF LITERATURE REVIEW; OUR STUDY; FINDINGS; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; Chapter 3 FIRESETTING AND MALTREATMENT
ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION; MALTREATMENT; LITERATURE REVIEW; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 4 FIRESETTING, SEXUAL ABUSE AND LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; LITERATURE SEARCH; CHARACTERISTICS OF SEXUAL ABUSE; LONG-TERM CONSEQUESNCES; REVIVTIMIZATION AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES; PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND PHYSICAL HEALTH; ACCELERATED PUBERTAL DEVELOPMENT; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5 FIRESETTING BEHAVIOR AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; LITERATURE SEARCH; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES
Chapter 6 YOUTH FIRESETTING: ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENTABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; PREVALENCE, DEVELOPMENT, AND LIFE COURSE; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; ASSESSMENT; INTERVENTIONS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; SECTION TWO: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter 7 ABOUT THE EDITORS; Chapter 8 ABOUT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN ISRAEL; MISSION; SERVICE AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; NATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; TARGETS
Chapter 9 ABOUT THE DIVISION OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE, KENTUCKY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, UNITED STATESDIVISION OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE; COLLABORATIONS; THE VISION; TARGET AREAS OF INTERESTS; Chapter 10 ABOUT THE BOOK SERIES "PEDIATRICS, CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH"; SECTION THREE: INDEX; INDEX
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Subject Pyromania in children -- United States.
Pyromania in children.
United States.
Pyromania -- United States.
Pyromania.
Fire behavior in children -- Research -- United States.
Fire behavior in children.
Research.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Omar, Hatim A., editor.
Howell Bowling, Carrie, editor.
Merrick, Joav, 1950- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Playing with fire 9781629484716 (DLC) 2013041117 (OCoLC)859385525
ISBN 9781629484747 (electronic book)
1629484741 (electronic book)
9781629484716
1629484717