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Acting out : maladaptive behavior in confinement / Hans Toch and Kenneth Adams, with J. Douglas Grant.

Title
Acting out : maladaptive behavior in confinement / Hans Toch and Kenneth Adams, with J. Douglas Grant.
Author
Toch, Hans.
Publication
Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Adams, Kenneth, 1953-
  • Grant, James Douglas, 1917-
Description
xiv, 446 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Annotation
Subject
  • Adaptation, Psychological
  • Adjustment (Psychology)
  • Crisis Intervention
  • Deviant behavior
  • Prison psychology
  • Prisoners > New York (State) > Longitudinal studies
  • Prisoners > New York (State) > Mental health
  • Prisoners > psychology
  • Prisons
  • Social Behavior Disorders > rehabilitation
  • United States
Genre/Form
Longitudinal studies
Note
  • Rev. ed. of: Coping, maladaptation in prisons. c1989.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Studying maladaptive behavior in confinement -- Part I : Aggregate patterns -- Data collection and analysis ; Patterns of prison misbehavior ; Patterns of pathology ; Disturbed-disruptive patterns -- Part II : Individual patterns -- Taxonomy of maladaptation ; Gratifying impulses ; Enhancing esteem ; Pursuing autonomy ; Seeking refuge ; Maintaining sanity ; Distribution of patterns ; Success stories -- Part III : What have we learned and what must we do? -- Some implications of our study ; Prison careers of mentally ill women ; Building coping competence.
ISBN
1557988803 (softcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2002001986
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library