Only-Child Experience and Adulthood

by B. Sorensen

Overview

This book examines only-child experience in global perspective and offers an insight into the dilemmas and challenges only-children face as adults. Explored from both a social and psychological perspective, it reveals the complexity and multidimensional nature of the private and public worlds of the only-child.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230521018
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/27/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	217
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

BERNICE SORENSEN has had a thirty-year career in counselling and psychotherapy, working in education, the NHS and employment programmes. She has a private practice and is an Associate of Cascade Training Associates. Being an only-child herself, she has a special interest in the phenomenon, and has written several articles, run workshops and set up the website www.onlychild.org.uk.

Table of Contents

Introduction PART ONE: TRANSCENDING THE STEREOTYPES The Politics of the Only-Child The Research Framework Co-Researchers' Stories Only-Child Voices PART TWO: A MULTIPLICITY OF VOICES Research Data and the World Wide Web Stories from China and Taiwan Life-Stories Life-Stages PART THREE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THERAPY An Only-Child Archetype: A Folk-Tale The Only-Child Matrix Gathering the Threads