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The Mentally retarded and society : a social science perspective
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The article was published on 1975-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 46 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Perspective (graphical).read more
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The Process of Dropping Out of High School: A 19-Year Perspective:
TL;DR: The authors compared the direct and indirect relationship of distal family and child and proximal adolescent factors to dropping out of high school, and found that dropping out is a multiply-determined process with early influences beginning in childhood, that involves family as well as child and adolescent factors.
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Children’s Friendships
TL;DR: Rutter and Garmezy as discussed by the authors found that emotionally disturbed children frequently have difficulties in forming and maintaining these relationships, and that extreme conditions, including autism, are commonly marked by the complete absence of friends.
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When psychology informs public policy: The case of early childhood intervention.
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Stigma and Social Exclusion
TL;DR: The need to belong and maintain relationships with others is a fundamental human motive as discussed by the authors. And the need to form and maintain lasting, positive, and significant relation-ships with others (e.g., friendship, attachment, and family) is a primal human need.
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Normalization and deinstitutionalization of mentally retarded individuals. Controversy and facts.
TL;DR: Examining the sources of the controversy over normalization will clarify the limits of the knowledge about treatment and open the possibility of theory-based evaluation of service delivery, which should advance the understanding of environmental influences on all human development.