Only-Child Experience and Adulthood [Hardcover]

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.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 ThreadsBERNICE 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.