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A parent's guide to child psychotherapy.Can psychotherapy help the underachiever?

A parent's guide to child psychotherapy.: Can psychotherapy help the underachiever? Underachievers are not born, they are made. In fact, it seems that underachievement is often an unhealthy result of a very healthy process: namely, the child's need to make himself a unique, separate individual. In maturing away from infancy, the child must develop a self separate from that of his parents, and in particular, from his very close relationship with his mother. In the course of maturing the child will explore and learn and experiment and become skillful at countless tasks. But in the underachiever something goes wrong. Instead of trying to see himself as a separate individual through accomplishing, he does it by not accomplishing. The normal growth process has been impaired. How has this happened? (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A parent's guide to child psychotherapy.Can psychotherapy help the underachiever?

Halpern, Howard M.
American Psychological Association — Aug 12, 2013
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A S Barnes & Co
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Copyright © 1963 American Psychological Association
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64 –81
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10.1037/14307-003
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Abstract

Underachievers are not born, they are made. In fact, it seems that underachievement is often an unhealthy result of a very healthy process: namely, the child's need to make himself a unique, separate individual. In maturing away from infancy, the child must develop a self separate from that of his parents, and in particular, from his very close relationship with his mother. In the course of maturing the child will explore and learn and experiment and become skillful at countless tasks. But in the underachiever something goes wrong. Instead of trying to see himself as a separate individual through accomplishing, he does it by not accomplishing. The normal growth process has been impaired. How has this happened? (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Aug 12, 2013

Keywords: child psychotherapy; underachievement; parents; child development

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