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

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Eye Contact and Other Baby Milestones That Cause Worry

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  When I started this blog ten years ago I was most interested in issues for infants and toddlers, and that remains my “first love”. In rece...
Monday, October 5, 2020

An Ill-Judged Award Decision: Attachment Issues

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  Several weeks ago, my Russian colleague Dr. Yulia Massino alerted me to the fact that the American Psychological Association had given an ...
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Monday, June 22, 2020

Interview With Susan Gerbic About Parental Alienation

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This is a little over an hour long: https://youtu.be/pD4CTPG-HAI

ADHD, FDA, and Video Games

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Recently the Food and Drug Administration approved a video game that is purported to be helpful as a treatment for attention deficit hyper...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

The "American Psychological Association Review"

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A colleague recently called my attention to the website https://americanpsychologicalass.com/ . This is one of many Internet sites that ar...

Attachment and "Parental Alienation"

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When thinking about parental alienation (PA) issues in the United States, I usually think it makes sense to consider a child age range of ...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Disinformation about Attachment Disorders on "Grey's Anatomy"

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A few days ago I was involved in a discussion about a “therapy” for children that featured rhythmic movement and was claimed to be effecti...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

The Fable of the Bears and the Holding Therapist (Long After Aesop)

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Once upon a time there was a holding therapist who was convinced that all problems were due to brain chemistry; at least, that was what he...
Friday, May 15, 2020

Yet More on Attachment Therapy in Russia

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If you have read my last two posts about current attachment therapy events in Russia, you might be wondering whether the Frohock “seminars...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

More on Attachment Therapy in Russia

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Yesterday I wrote about the exportation to Russia of practices related to the “attachment therapy belief system” (ATBS) by Kenneth Froho...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Attachment Therapy Goes to Russia

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For quite a long time now, most of my posts have been about “parental alienation”. There are so many current PA events that it has been ha...
Monday, May 4, 2020

Parental Alienation Proponents and the Child Protection Claim

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Listening last week to a deposition by a proponent of the parental alienation belief system (PABS), I was struck anew by a claim I have he...
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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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