Unchecked Immature Character Development Claims Nearly Ten Percent of Our Children!
These kids are destructive to themselves, their families, classmates and communities.
ISBN-10: 1-56825-118-1,
ISBN-13: 978-1-56825-118-9 ,
Self-Help Health ,trade softcover, $16.95
Dr. Partridge has dedicated his entire career as a psychologist to the diagnosis and treatment of immature character development. His extensive experience and research have revealed that the source of immature character development is in giving children too much comfort, and in allowing them too much control and power. He believes that the character disorders that result from an unchecked immature character development claim nearly ten percent of our children. These kids are destructive to themselves, their families, classmates and communities.
So what can loving, concerned parents do to enhance their children’s character development?
What can be done to help kids who are already out of control?
About Dr. Partridge
Dr. Partridge identified himself as a clinical/developemental/social scientist. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University with postdoctoral experience in child development at Stanford Children’s Health Council. During his long career as a specialist in children’s behavior disorders, Dr. Partridge consulted to school districts and agencies of the State of California. He has also been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense in Europe in behalf of families with children having special needs.
More recently, consultation and clinical practice in the San Francisco Bay area combined differential diagnosis of behavioral and learning disorders with special focus on central nervous system disabilities. Private practice efforts continued with families and schools in behalf of children with motivational, social and behavioral immaturity.
Later professional involvement took Dr. Partridge to Monterey, California, as director of the "Character Skills" demonstration project funded by a Harden Foundation grant. This program has demonstrated that with early identification and intervention, teaching parents critical child guidance and training skills, primary school children can be turned from character immaturity to character development. Indeed, 84 percent success was attained (in changing school behavior and effort) in two months, with overall success above 90 percent.
