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SHIRLEY R. RASHKIS, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1965;12(1):10-17.

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Introduction

The health concepts of the child depend upon the organization and interpretation he gives to his perceptions of his body, to the responses of others to his body, and to the effects of the environment upon his wellbeing. Since we regard good health as the normal and desirable state of the child, we ordinarily assign less significance to his ideas about health than to his other conceptions. Yet these ideas are important, as are all biologic concepts of the child, to personality development,⁸ and study of the child's thinking about health may further our understanding of his awareness and appraisal of his body normally and when physically ill. The particular influence of the meaning of health for the child upon his reactions to illness has been noted by Fries,⁵ Senn,²² and Langford.^12,13

From early childhood, learning about health is an . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PHILADELPHIA

Medical Research Scientist, Department of Clinical Research, Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, and Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 16, 1964.

The former Illman School of the University of Pennsylvania supported this research, which was conducted while I was an Associate in the Department of Psychology of the University of Pennsylvania.

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