Hazards of Rearing Children in Foreign Countries

SIDNEY L. WERKMANAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 128, Number 8

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.8.992

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Overseas living complicates the tasks of child rearing in unique ways. Some complications may result in overt psychiatric disorders, others in character distortions of varying degrees. Many of them can be avoided, minimized, or resolved through anticipation, open discussion, informed planning, and decisive action. Issues of recurring clinical importance include unusual child-rearing practices, problems with caretakers, aberrant sexuality, fears, and alienation.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 128 • Number 8 • February 1972

Pages: 992 - 997

PubMed: 5058121

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Published in print: February 1972

Published online: 1 April 2006

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SIDNEY L. WERKMAN

Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Medical School, Denver, Colo. 80220

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