CHILDMYTHS

The "Childmyths" blog is a spin-off of Jean Mercer's book "Thinking Critically About Child Development: Examining Myths & Misunderstandings"(Sage, 2015; third edition). The blog focuses on parsing mistaken beliefs that can influence people's decisions about childrearing-- for example, beliefs about day care, about punishment, about child psychotherapies, and about adoption. See also http://thestudyofnonsense.blogspot.com

Monday, October 23, 2017

What Do Registries and Clearinghouses Tell Us About Child Mental Health Interventions?

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I wrote the following paper for a conference about a year ago, and recently a colleague asked whether it was on line anywhere-- so here i...
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What Does Conventional Child Psychotherapy Really Look Like?

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It’s all too common to read  “alternative” psychotherapists' claims that conventional psychological treatments are ineffective or even ...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Questions About Eye Contact and Autism

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Several people have recently tried to post comments about infant eye contact and autism on the What, Where, When page. You can't do it, ...
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Sunday, October 8, 2017

Talking Attachment Trauma: Sense and Nonsense

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I recently received some court documents that included the statement of a psychiatrist who was arguing as an expert witness against a propo...
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Saturday, September 30, 2017

How Do You Know If Your Child's Therapist Commits Malpractice?

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People who are dissatisfied with their physicians and psychologists sometimes mutter to themselves about malpractice, but most of us don’t ...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Choosing a Developmentally Appropriate Preschool/ Child Care Program

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What should a good program for preschoolers look like? This is a really difficult question for many parents of young children. There are a ...
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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Power Assertion and Child Guidance: Spanking and Other Acts

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 Not only the American Psychological Association, but various other groups with an interest in child development and parenting have been ex...
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Jean Mercer has a Ph.D in Psychology from Brandeis University, earned when that institution was 20 years old (you do the math). She is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Richard Stockton College, where for many years she taught developmental psychology, research methods, perception, and history of psychology. Since about 2000 her focus has been on potentially dangerous child psychotherapies, and she has published several related books and a number of articles in professional journals. Her CV can be seen at http://childmyths.blogspot.com/2009/12/curriculum-vitae-jean.mercer-richard.html.
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